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HISTORY   OF   NEW    PALTZ 

NEW   YORK 


AND 


ITS    OLD    FAMILIES 


(From  1678  to  1820) 

Including  the   Huguenot  Pioneers  and  Others  who  settled 
IN  New  Paltz  previous  to  the   Revolution 


By  RALPH    I.EFEVRE 

President  New  Paltz  Huguenot,  Patriotic,  Historical  and  Monumental  Society 

Corresponding   Member   Huguenot   Society   of    America ; 

Thirty-four  years  Editor  of  New  Paltz  Independent 


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PREFACE 

IT  is  natural  for  the  people  of  any  country  or  community 
to  feel  an  interest  in  the  history  of  their  ancestors. 
Even  the  most  savage  nations  have  carefully  cherished  tra- 
ditions of  the  deeds  and  prowess  of  their  forefathers. 

To  every  man  the  honorable  fame  of  his  progenitors  is 
an  incentive  to  emulate  their  noble  deeds. 

In  the  early  settlement  of  New  Paltz  and  its  history  for 
nearly  a  century  afterwards  there  is  such  a  touch  of  ro- 
mance, such  a  blending  of  the  stern  realities  of  frontier 
life  with  the  harmony  of  the  poet's  golden  age,  such  noble 
examples  of  devotion  to  the  cause  of  religious  liberty,  such 
brotherly  kindness  toward  each  other  as  exiles  for  a  com- 
mon cause,  that  the  example  should  not  be  lost  to  posterity. 

Our  old  men  are  falling  around  us.  The  traditions  which 
they  cherished  are  perishing  with  them.  What  is  to  be 
saved  from  oblivion  must  be  saved  now — in  this  generation. 

With  these  feelings  we  have  undertaken  the  task  of  gath- 
ering up  the  scattered  links  of  history  and  joining  them  in 
a  chain  that  should  stretch  down  from  the  days  of  the 
Patentees. 

In  writing  the  history  of  New  Paltz  it  is  not  to  be  ex- 
pected that  the  record  of  its  early  settlers  can  be  carried 
back  of  the  time  when  our  ancestors  fled  from  France. 
Louis  XIV  was  not  satisfied  with  driving  his  Protestant 
subjects  out  of  the  country  and  confiscating  their  lands  and 
goods. — Their  very  names  were  obliterated  from  baptismal 
and  genealogical  records.     The  record  of  the  marriage  of 


iv  PREFACE 

Louis  DuBois,  at  Manheim,  in  1655,  shows  that  he  was  the 
son  of  Chretian  DuBois,  of  Wicres.  The  old  register  at 
the  little  village  of  Wicres  has  been  examined  and  found  to 
contain  the  registry  of  the  baptism  of  three  sons  of  Chretian 
DuBois,  but  in  each  case  the  Christian  name  of  the  son  is 
torn  out,  in  accordance  with  the  orders  of  the  French  king. 
The  same  is  no  doubt  the  case  with  the  other  church  regis- 
ters in  France  in  which  the  names  of  the  Huguenot  settlers 
of  New  Paltz  might  otherwise  still  be  found. 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS 


Chapter  I 

FAGS 

Events  preceding  the  settlement i 

AH  probably  lived  at  Hurley 19 

Chapter  II 

More  land  wanted 21 

Deed  of  gift  to  Jean  Cottin 22 

The  French  schoolmasters  at  New  Paltz 25 

Houses  built  by  Patentees 28 

Dressmaking  in  the  old  days 32 

The  first  sales  of  land 33 

Chapter  III 

The  French  records  of  New  Paltz  church 37 

Chapter  IV 

The  blending  of  French  and  Dutch  at  New  Paltz 44 

Chapter  V 

Collection  of  old  papers 49 

Patentees'  trunk 53 

Chapter  VI 

The  spelling  of  various  family  names 55 

Chapter  VII 

Moving  out  and  moving  in 58 

Dutch  language  superseding  the  French 59 

Territory  formerly  part  of  the  town,  but  not  within  the  Paltz  Patent  '  60 

The  first  public  highway 62 

Disputes  in  regard  to  the  boundaries  of  the  Patent 63 

Chapter  VIII 

A  pure  Democracy 66 

Land  worked  in  common 69 

The  government  of  the  Dusine 69 


vi  CONTENTS 

Chapter  IX 

PAGE 

The  Indians  and  hunting  stories 78 

Stolen  by  the  Indians 82 

Some  hunting  stories 83 

Wild  pigeons  and  larger  game 86 

Desperate  fight  with  a  bear 87 

Chapter  X 

Property  holders  at  New  Paltz  in  early  days 89 

Taxpayers  in  1712 89 

The  building  of  the  first  stone  church 91 

Freeholders  in  1728  92 

New  Paltz  taxpayers  in  1728 92 

List  of  slave  holders  in  1755 93 

Value  of  the  Precinct  of  New  Paltz  in  1765 93 

Chapter  XI 

The  contract  of  1744 103 

Civil  government 107 

Neighborhoods  annexed  to  New  Paltz 107 

Payments  of  rents  and  taxes 108 

Tax  receipt 108 

Chapter  XII 

A  short  historical  memorandum no 

Matters  submitted  to  voters 112 

Chapter  XIII 

The  first  manufacturing  industry  in  Southern  Ulster 115 

Soldiers  in  the  Colonial  period 116 

Coats  of  arms  in  Huguenot  families  at  New  Paltz iig 

Chapter  XIV 

Tories  in  the  Revolution 122 

Old  frame  houses  124 

A  famous  old  oak 125 

How  they  crossed  the  Wallkill 127 

The  Springtown  merchant  of  1800 129 

Washington  Irving  and  Martin  Van  Buren 130 

Regimental  training  131 

Amusements  in  the  olden  times 132 


CONTENTS  vii 
Chapter  XV 

PAGE 

The  New  Paltz  church 134 

The  two  French  pastors 137 

The  first  stone  church 139 

Rev.  Johannes  Van  Driessen 141 

Rev.  Barent  Vrooman 144 

Baptizing  the  children  at  Kingston 145 

Connection  between  Church  and  State 146 

Rev.  Johannes  Mauritius  Goetschius 147 

The  Conferentia  church 148 

The  second  stone  church 152 

Rev.  John  H.  Meyer 156 

Rev.  Peter  D.  Freligh  157 

Rev.  William  R.  Bogardus 157 

Rev.  Douw  Van  Olinda 158 

Chapter  XVI 

Old  county  records  at  Kingston 160 

Could  not  build  the  church  by  tax 164 

Wills  of  early  New  Paltz  people 164 

Other  valuable  papers  165 

Chapter  XVII 

Articles  of  Association  167 

Chapter  XVIII 

New  Paltz  in  the  Revolution 171 

First  Ulster  County  Regiment 172 

Second  Ulster  County  Regiment 173 

Third  Ulster  County  Regiment 173 

Fourth  Ulster  County  Regiment 174 

Chapter  XIX 

Guarding  the  Frontier  from  Tories  and  Indians 178 

Colonel  Cantine's  letters  to  General  Clinton 179 

Money  promised  when  he  was  appointed  at  New  Paltz 180 

Murdered  by  Indians   181 

Escaped  from  Indian  captivity 181 

Paying  his  men  182 

Cowardly  behavior  of  Orange  County  Militia 182 

Two  hundred  Indians  reported — man  shot 183 

Time  of  some  of  Col.  Jonathan  Hasbrouck's  men  expired 183 


viii  CONTENTS 

PAGE 

Gen.  Clinton  replies 183 

Plundered  by  the  Militia 184 

Indian  villages  destroyed  188 

Still  another  attack  on  Wawarsing 188 

Capt.  Abrani  Deyo's  men 188 

Chapter  XX 

History  of  farming  at  New  Paltz 190 

The  poor  soil  of  Kettleborough 194 

Clover  and  plaster  the  first  commercial  fertilizers 194 

Ancient  names  of  clearings  on  the  Wallkill 194 

Racing  horses   196 

Depression  among  the  farmers 196 

The  implements  used  by  our  Forefathers igy 

The  New  Paltz  turnpike 197 

Chapter  XXI 

New  Paltz  village  and  town  in  1820 199 

Springtown  in  1820 203 

Houses  north  of  our  village  in  1820. 204 

Bontecoe  in  1820  206 

Libertyville  in  1820 208 

Ohioville  in  1820  208 

Houses  south  of  our  village  in  1820 209 

Butterville  in  1820  212 

Plutarch  in  1820 215 

Industries  in  this  town  in  1820 215 

Teachers  about  1820  and  earlier 216 

Alexander  Doag  217 

Gilbert  C.  Rice  218 

Miss  Ransome  218 

Chapter  XXII 

The  family  of  Louis  Bevier  the  Patentee - 223 

Jean  Bevier  227 

Abraham  Bevier  229 

Samuel  Bevier   230 

Louis  Bevier  230 

Genealogy  of  the  Bevier  family 233 

Chapter  XXIII 

The  Deyo  family  at  New  Paltz 253 

Pierre  the  Patentee  s 256 


CONTENTS  ix 

PAGE 

Christian,  son  of  Pierre  the  Patentee 259 

Jacobus  Deyo   260 

Abraham  Deyo,  son  of  Pierre  the  Patentee 261 

Capt.  Abraham  Deyo  264 

Soldiers  in  Capt.  Abm.  Deyo's  Company 264 

Daniel  Deyo  266 

Simeon  Deyo  269 

Jonathan  Deyo  270 

Philip  Deyo 271 

The  family  of  Hendricus,  son  of  Pierre  the  Patentee 273 

Chapter  XXIV 

The  DuBois  family  at  New  Paltz 280 

Chapter  XXV 

Abraham  DuBois,  the  Patentee 293 

Chapter  XXVI 

The  family  of  Isaac  DuBois,  one  of  the  New  Paltz  Patentees 293 

Daniel,  son  of  Isaac  294 

Simon  DuBois  299 

Andries  DuBois 302 

Joseph  DuBois  302 

Benjamin  DuBois  303 

Chapter  XXVII 

Solomon  DuBois,  son  of  Louis  the  Patentee 305 

Hendricus  DuBois   312 

Chapter  XXVIII 

Louis  DuBois,  Jun.,  son  of  Louis  the  Patentee 314 

Louis,  son  of  Louis,  Jun 3^7 

Jonathan,  son  of  Louis,  Jun 318 

Nathaniel,  son  of  Louis,  Jun 322 

Chapter  XXIX 

Military  service  of  Col.  Lewis  DuBois 325 

Chapter  XXX 

The  Freer  family  at  New  Paltz 349 

Hugo  Senior,  son  of  Hugo  the  Patentee 352 

Isaac,  son  of  Hugo  Senior 360 


X  CONTENTS 

PACE 

Jonas,  son  of  Hugo  Senior  361 

Abraham,  son  of  Hugo  the  Patentee 363 

Jacob,  son  of  Hugo  the  Patentee 364 

Jean,  son  of  Hugo  the  Patentee 365 

Chapter  XXXI 

Abraham  Hasbrouck,  the  Patentee 368 

Daniel,  son  of  Abraham  the  Patentee 370 

Solomon,  son  of  Abraham  the  Patentee Z72 

Joseph,  son  of  Abraham  the  Patentee 375 

Col.  Abraham,  son  of  Joseph 382 

Isaac,  son  of  Joseph  and  grandson  of  Abraham  the  Patentee 386 

Jacob  A.,  son  of  Joseph  of  Guilford 387 

Benjamin,  son  of  Joseph  and  grandson  of  Abraham  the  Patentee.  .  389 

Col.  Jonathan,  son  of  Joseph 390 

Rachel  Hasbrouck's  ride  from  Newburgh  to  Guilford 393 

Benjamin,  son  of  Abraham  the  Patentee 394 

Chapter  XXXII 

The  family  of  Jean  Hasbrouck  the  Patentee 397 

The  Stone  Ridge  Hasbroucks 402 

Chapter  XXXIII 

The  LeFevre  family  in  America 407 

The  LeFevre  family  in  New  Paltz 409 

The  homestead  on  the  plains 418 

The  Kettleborough  LeFevres  422 

The  LeFevre  family  at  Bontecoe 432 

The  Bloomingdale  LeFevres  448 

Chapter  XXXIV 

The  Auchmoody  familj' 451 

Chapter  XXXV 

The  Budd  family '. 453 

Chapter  XXXVI 

The  Hardenbergh  family  455 

Col.  Johannes  Hardenbergh  of  Rosendale 460 

Chapter  XXXVII 

The  Wurts  family 464 


CONTENTS  xi 

Chapter  XXXVIII 

PAGE 

Old  Dutch  families  at  New  Paltz  and  vicinity 467 

Chapter  XXXIX 
The  Low  family  at  New  Paltz 468 

Chapter  XL 
The  Klaarwater  (Clearwater)   family 470 

Chapter  XLI 
The  Ean  family 474 

Chapter  XLII 
The  Van  Wagenen  family  at  New  Paltz 479 

Chapter  XLIII 

The  Elting  family  in  New  Paltz 481 

Roelif,  the  first  Elting  in  New  Paltz 483 

Roelif  Elting's  children  484 

Josias  Elting  and  his  descendants 486 

The  Elting  homestead 487 

The  Hurley  Eltings 497 

Chapter  XLIV 

Families  living  in  the  congregation  but  not  in  the  Precinct  of  New 

Paltz    499 

The  Schoonmaker  family  in  Gardiner 499 

The  Ronk  family 500 

The  Relyea  family 502 

The  Smith  family  at  Swartekill 503 

Chapter  XLV 

Genealogy  of  the  French  settlers  of  New  Paltz  to  the  third  gene- 
ration        505 


ILLUSTRATIONS 


PAGE 


Ralph  LeFevre  Frontispiece 

Mrs.  Ralph  LeFevre  3 

Original  deed  from  the  Indians 16-17 

Deed  of  gift  to  Jean  Cottin 24 

Agreement  to  learn  dressmaking  trade 32 

Deed  from  Anthony  Crispell  to  Hugo  Freer 35 

Tax  list  of  1712 90 

A  famous  old  oak ^^^ 

Old  paper  with  signature  of  Rev.  Pierre  Daille :  •  •  ■  I37 

The  first  stone  church  ^30 

The  second  stone  church ^52 

Sky  Top  -••  220 

The  Louis  Bevier  house  at  Marbletown 231 

The  ancient  document  with  signature  of  Pierre  Deyo 258 

The  Deyo  house  at  New  Pahz 262 

The  house  of  Daniel  Deyo  at  Ireland  Corners 267 

House  of  Hendricus  Deyo  at  Bontecoe 272 

Tombstone  of  Margerite  Van  Bimmiel.  wife  of  Hendricus  Deyo.  .  .  274 

Receipts  with  signatures  of  Louis  DuBois,  the  Patentee 285 

Document  with  signature  of  Abraham  DuBois,  the  Patentee 288 

Tombstone  of  Abraham  DuBois,  the  Patentee 292 

The  old  DuBois  house  or  fort  in  this  village 295 

Tombstone  of  Daniel  DuBois  in  graveyard  in  this  village 298 

Rev.  Dr.  Anson  DuBois 3o8 

House  of  Capt.  Louis  J.  DuBois 320 

House  of  Col.  Lewis  DuBois  at  Marlborough 324 

The  old  Freer  house  in  our  village 348 

Letter  from  Jean  Giron  to  Hugo  Freer,  Senior,  and  wife 355 

The  Abraham  Hasbrouck  house  in  our  village 3^7 

Tombstone  of  Joseph  Hasbrouck  jn  the  old  graveyard  in  this  village  3/6 

The  Jean  Hasbrouck  house,  now  the  Memorial  House 396 

LeFevre  tombstone  in  old  burying  ground  in  this  village 416 

The  house  of  Abraham  LeFevre,  one  of  the  first  settlers  at  Kettle- 
borough   ^^"9 

House  built  by  Maj.  Isaac  LeFevre  at  Bontecoe 436 

Scene  on  the  Wallkill  at  Bontecoe 439 


xiv  -  ILLUSTRATIONS 

PAGE 

The  house  of  Daniel  LeFevre,  great-grandfather  of  the  author 444 

House  of  Col.  Abraham  J.  Hardenbergh  at  Guilford 459 

Ancient  map  of  the  Patent 462 

Ruins  of  the  Ean  house  at  Bontecoe 475 

The  Eltinge  homestead,  originally  the  Bevier  house 488 

The  oldest  brick  house  in  the  town 495 

Louis  Bevier  of  Marbletown 506 


History  of   New   Paltz 

CHAPTER  I 

Events  Preceding  the  Settlement 

WITH  modesty,  yet  with  confidence,  we  make  the  claim 
that  the  early  history  of  no  other  portion  of  our  land 
can  excel  in  interest  that  of  New  Paltz.  With  the  excep- 
tion of  Kingston  no  other  place  in  this  part  of  the  country 
was  settled  at  so  early  a  date.  The  New  Paltz  church  was 
organized  exactly  forty  years  before  the  first  church  was 
erected  in  Poughkeepsie.  Col.  Jonathan  Hasbrouck,  grand- 
son of  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  New  Paltz^  built  Wash- 
ington's Headcjuarters  at  Newburgh.  Col.  Lewis  DuBois, 
a  great-grandson  of  one  of  the  early  settlers  at  New  Paltz, 
built  what  was  doubtless  the  first  house  at  Marlborough, 
on  the  river  front.  Two  other  New  Paltz  men,  John  and 
Abram  Bevier,  were  the  first  settlers  in  the  town  of  Wa- 
warsing. 

Peter  Guimar,  of  Moir,  in  Sanaigne,  who  was  one  of  the 
pioneers  of  Orange  county  and'  one  of  the  seven  men  who 
made  a  settlement  in  1690  at  what  is  now  Cuddebackville, 
at  the  stone  fort^  which  was  for  half  a  century  an  outpost 
of  civilization,  married  Esther,  daughter  of  Jean  Hasbrouck, 
one  of  the  New  Paltz  patentees. 

But  it  is  not  only  because  New  Paltz  was  the  cradle  of 
surrounding  settlements,  nor  only  on  account  of  its  an- 
tiquity, that  we  claim  for  New  Paltz  the  most  interesting 
place  in  the  history  of  the  early  settlements.  It  is  not  be- 
cause the  New  Paltz  patentees  purchased  the  lands  of  the 


2  HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z 

Indians  before  William  Penn  had  performed  a  like  gracious 
deed,  with  like  peaceful  results,  in  Pennsylvania ;  it  is  not 
because  New  Paltz  was  one  of  the  few  Huguenot  settle- 
ments in  this  country,  and  perhaps  the  only  one  in  which 
the  stock  of  original  settlers  was  not  speedily  overwhelmed 
in  a  flood  of  new-comers  from  other  European  nationalities ; 
nor  yet  is  it  because  the  little  community  existed  for  half 
a  century  to  some  extent  as  a  miniature  republic — must  we 
say  aristocracy? — in  which  the  Dusine  exercised  judicial 
and  legislative  powers,  and  the  church  owned  no  higher 
authority  than  its  own  membership.  No ;  it  is  for  none  of 
these  facts,  though  rendering  the  history  of  New  Paltz  so 
unique  and  peculiar,  that  we  claim  for  it  the  most  interesting 
place  in  the  narrative  of  early  settlements.  But  it  is  for 
one  other  circumstance,  coming  down  to  our  own  day ;  it 
is  because  at  New  Paltz,  as  in  no  other  place  in  our  country, 
the  homesteads  have  been  handed  down  in  the  family  ever 
since  the  first  settlement.  In  the  house  in  which  I  was  born 
my  father  lived  before  me,  my  grandfather  spent  his  days 
there,  my  great-grandfather  dwelt  there.  A  few  rods  ofif 
my  great-great-grandfather's  house  was  built.  In  the  old 
street  in  our  village  the  Deyo  house,  the  DuBois  house  and 
the  houses  of  the  two  Hasbrouck  brothers  came  down  in  the 
same  family  for  nearly  two  hundred  years. 

While  New  Paltz  was,  to  a  great  extent,  the  cradle  of  sur- 
rounding towns,  the  Huguenots  kept  their  grip  on  their  own 
old  homesteads,  and  their  conservatism  we  consider  a  more 
remarkable  point,  by  far,  than  the  early  date  of  the  settlement. 
In  church  matters  this  point  in  their  character  is  still  more 
noticeable,  and  whether  the  settlement  at  New  Paltz  is  acknowl- 
edged to  be  the  most  interesting  of  any  in  the  country  or  not, 
there  can  scarcelv  be  a  doubt  that  this  claim  will  be  conceded 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  3 

in  regard  to  the  Reformed  Church  in  our  village.  Over  200 
years  ago  our  church  organized.  By  the  grace  of  God  it  has 
grown  and  flourished  from  that  time  until  the  present  day. 
For  fifty  years  of  its  history  the  records,  still  in  existence,  were 
kept  to  a  great  extent  in  French  ;  for  seventy  years  longer 
in  the  Holland  tongue,  and  afterwards  in  English.  But,  now 
that  we  have  stated  what  there  is  peculiar  in  the  early  history 
of  New  Paltz,  we  must  go  back  to  show  the  causes  that  led  up 
to  that  settlement. 

Two  hundred  and  twenty  years  have  passed  since  the  first 
settlers  reared  their  humble  homes  in  New  Paltz.  Of  the  his- 
tory previous  to  that  time  we  know  but  little.  We  only  know 
that  they  left  their  native  land,  on  account  of  religious  perse- 
cution, and  after  a  residence  of  a  short  period  in  that  portion  of 
Germany,  known  as  the  Paltz,  or  Palatinate,  came  to  the  New 
World,  from  1660  to  1675.  The  history  of  the  French  Hugue- 
nots, in  their  own  country  for  a  century  preceding,  had  been 
a  history  of  blood.  The  Reformation  had  not  been  slow  to 
take  deep  root,  and  among  the  names  of  French  reformers  is 
that  of  sturdy  John  Calvin,  whose  fame  has  spread  wherever 
Protestantism  has  obtained  a  foothold ;  but  while,  partly 
from  political  causes,  the  reformation  succeeded  in  England 
and  in  the  north  of  Germany,  in  France  it  had  to  light, 
almost  from  the  first,  against  the  power  of  the  court,  the 
priesthood  and  the  prevailing  popular  sentiment.  Never- 
theless the  Huguenots  numbered  in  their  ranks  many  of  the 
nobility  and  a  great  portion  of  the  most  intelligent  people. 
Three  civil  w^ars  had  raged  between  the  Catholics  and  the 
Protestants. 

The  massacre  of  St.  Bartholomew  in  1572,  wdiich  was 
planned  by  Catharine  De  Medici,  the  wicked  mothea-  of 
Charles    IX,    the    king,    and    was    intended    to    destroy   the 


4  HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z 

Protestants  at  one  blow,  had  but  strengthened  their  hands. 
Although  outnumbered,  ten  to  one,  by  the  Catholics,  they 
had  gallantly  sustained  themselves  in  arms,  upheld,  in  part, 
by  moral  support  from  Germany,  as  well  as  more  tangible 
aid    from    Queen    Elizabeth,    of    England.      The    death    of 
Henry  III  left  the  Protestant  Henry,  of  Navarre,  as  the 
legal  heir  to  the  crown,  but  the  Catholics  were  determined 
that  no  heretic  should  sit  on  the  throne  of  France.     For 
years   Henry  waged   an   unequal   war   for   his   inheritance, 
with  a  courage  and  a  gallantry  that  made  his  name  famous, 
but  the  odds  were  too  great ;    he  found  himself  forced  to 
give  up  his  religion  or  continue  a  hopeless  contest.      He 
chose  the  former  alternative,  declaring  that  "the  crown  was 
wortji  a  mass."     Shortly  afterward,  in  1598,  he  granted  the 
celebrated  Edict  of  Nantes^  which  secured  to  Protestants 
freedom  of  conscience  and  all  political  and  religious  rights. 
In  1610  Henry  met  his  death  at  the  hands  of  an  assassin, 
and   the   Protestants   being  left   without   a   protector  their 
troubles   again  commenced.     In   1628  Rochelle,  which  had 
been  their  stronghold  and  had  been  in  their  possession  for 
seventy   years,  was   taken,    after   a  siege  of    fourteen   months, 
during  which  so  desperate  a  resistance  was  made  that  the 
population  of  the  city  was  reduced,  by  war  and  famine,  from 
30,000  to  5,000  souls.     Notwithstanding  that  Rochelle  was 
wrested    from     their    grasp,    while    Richelieu    managed    the 
realm,  yet  this  was  done  rather  as  a  political  measure,  be- 
cause Protestantism  threatened  to  become  a  state  within  a 
state,  than  for  the  purpose  of  religious  persecution.     Riche- 
lieu was  no  bigot ;    in  the  thirty-years'  war  he  aided  the 
Protestants   and  the    Huguenots    could    not    complain    much 
of  persecution  during  his  administration  or  that  of  his  suc- 
cessor,  Mazarin.     But  from  the  time  of   Mazarin's   death. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  5 

in  1661,  when  Louis  XIV  himself  assumed  the  reins  of 
authority,  until  the  formal  revocation  of  the  Edict  of  Nantes, 
in  1685,  which  was  the  last  act  in  a  series  of  persecutions, 
the  Protestants  of  France  suffered  greatly.  Before  the 
formal  revocation  of  the  Edict  whole  troops  of  dissolute 
soldiers  were  let  loose  upon  them,  and  frightful  barbarities 
followed. 

Half  a  million  of  subjects  of  the  French  king  left  their 
native  country  and  fled  to  foreign  lands.  Borne  on  this 
wave  of  immigration  and  prizing  liberty  of  conscience  above 
everything  else,  the  brave-hearted  men,  who  afterward  set- 
tled New  Paltz,  fled  across  the  frontier,  and  found  an  asylum 
in  that  part  of  Germany  known  as  the  Palatinate  or  Paltz — 
the  name  being  borne  now  only  by  a  castle  on  the  Rhine. 
Here  they  could  not  long  remain  in  peace,  for  the  armies  of 
their  cruel  monarch,  in  the  wars  which  he  almost  constantly 
carried  on  with  other  European  powers,  repeatedly  invaded 
and  ravaged  the  Palatinate.  In  1664  an  army  under  Tu- 
renne,  one  of  his  generals,  desolated  that  province  without 
mercy,  and  it  may  be  at  this  time  some  of  our  forefathers 
resolved  to  cross  the  Atlantic  and  escape  from  their  merci- 
less foes. 

At  this  time  the  Huguenots  were  flying  to  different  por- 
tions of  the  New  World,  as  well  as  Europe,  for  protection. 
As  early  as  1625  several  families  settled  in  New  York,  then 
in  possession  of  the  Dutch,  and  were  the  first  permanent 
settlers.  Others  were  to  be  found  in  Virginia,  Rhode  Island, 
Massachusetts,  and  especially  in  South  Carolina,  where  a 
large  portion  of  the  most  honored  names  are  of  Huguenot 
origin.  Scattered  like  leaves  by  the  autumn  blast,  they 
were  tossed  hither  and  thither,  and  it  is  probable  that  by 
1663  a  score  or  more  had  found  their  way  to  Kingston — 


6  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

called  Esopus  by  the  Dutclf — then  a  flourishing  village. 
We  know  that  Louis  DuBois^,  who  was  one  of  the  first  New 
Paltz  immigrants,  had  been  there  two  or  three  years  at 
least  before  that  time.  In  1663  Kingston  was  burned  by 
the  Indians,  and  the  wife  and  three  children  of  Louis  Du- 
Bois,  the  Walloon,  as  he  was  called,  were  among  those 
carried  away  captive. 

This  Louis  DuBois,  who  became  the  leader  of  the  settle- 
ment at  New  Paltz,  was  usually  called  Louis,  the  Walloon, 
the  Walloons  being  the  residents  of  that  part  of  Flanders 
lying  between  the  Scheldt  and  Lys.  He  was  born  in  the 
hamlet  of  Wicres,  near  Lille,  in  the  province  of  Artois,  in 
French  Flanders,  October  27,  1626,  and  was  the  son  of  Chre- 
tien DuBois,  whose  farm  is  still  pointed  out.  Louis  moved 
to  Manheim,  on  the  Rhine,  the  capital  of  the  Palatinate, 
or  Paltz,  a  little  principality,  now  incorporated  in  Baden, 
and  there  he  married  Catharine  Blancon,  the  daughter  of  a 
burgher  residing  there,  named  Matthew  Blangon,  who  was 
also  a  native  of  Artois.  Manheim  was,  at  that  time,  a  refuge 
for  the  Protestants  from  the  neighboring  parts  of  France, 
and  Baird,  in  his  Huguenot  Emigration,  says:  "The  Le- 
Fevers,  Hasbroucks,  Crispells,  etc.,  were  associated  with 
Louis  DuBois  at  Manheim." 

Anthony  Crispell  was  the  first  of  the  New  Paltz  patentees 
to  come  to  America.  He  came  in  company  with  his  father- 
in-law,  Matthew  Blanchan,*  on  the  Gilded  Otter,  arriving  at 
New  York  in  June,  1660.  Governor  Stuyvesant  gave  Blan- 
chan  a  letter  to  Sergeant  Romp,  in  Esopus,  whither  they  at 
once  proceeded. 

Louis  DuBois^  who  was  also  a  son-in-law  of  Blanchan, 
probably   came   over   on   the   ship   St.   Jan   Baptist,   which 


*  There  is  no  uniformity  in  the  early  records   in  the  spelling  of  French  surnames  and 
therefore  none  is  attempted  In  this  book. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  7 

landed  August  6,  1661.  Blanchan  had  sojourned  in  Eng- 
land before  crossing  the  ocean,  and  probably  his  two  sons- 
in-law,  likewise.  Blanchan,  DuBois  and  Crispell  all  got 
land  at  Hurley.  In  1661  Louis  DuBois'  third  son,  Jacob, 
was  presented  for  baptism  at  the  church  at  Kingston,  as 
still  shown  by  the  church  register,  that  being  one  of  the 
earliest  entries. 

In  1663,  June  10,  Hurley  and  part  of  Kingston  were 
burned  by  the  Indians,  and  the  wife  of  Louis  DuBois  and 
three  children  were  among  those  carried  away  captive. 
Likewise  the  two  children  of  Matthew  Blanchan,  Jr.,  and 
the  wife  and  child  of  Anthony  Crispell. 

Three  months  afterward  an  expedition  under  Captain 
Kregier,  sent  from  New  York,  recovered  the  captives ;  sur- 
prising the  Indians  at  their  fort  near  the  Hogabergh,  in 
Shawangunk.  The  story,  which  is  dear  to  the  Huguenot 
heart  of  New  Paltz,  is  that  when  Captain  Kregier  and  his 
company,  directed  by  an  Indian,  attacked  the  savages  at 
their  place  of  refuge  near  the  Shawangunk  Kill,  they  were 
about  to  burn  one  or  more  captives  at  the  stake,  and  the 
women  commenced  singing  the  137th  Psalm,  which  so 
pleased  the  red  men  that  they  deferred  the  proposed  death 
by  torture,  and  in  the  meantime  Captain  Kregier's  band, 
with  Louis  DuBois  and  others,,  arrived  and  rescued  the  cap- 
tives from  a  horrible  death,  Louis  DuBois  himself  killing 
with  his  sword  an  Indian  who  was  in  advance  of  the  rest 
before  the  alarm  could  be  raised.  Captain  Kregier's  report 
says  nothing  about  this.  However,  we  shall  not  give  up 
the  tradition  as  it  contains  nothing  irreconcilable  with  the 
report  of  Captain  Kregier,  which  deals  mainly  with  the 
fighting  done  by  his  soldiers,  while  tradition  would  dwell 
more  upon  the  condition  of  the  captives. 


8  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

"  The  tradition  concerning  the  impending  fate  of  the  wife 
of  Louis  DuBois  at  the  time  of  rescue  is  not  credited  by  Mr. 
E.  M.  Ruttenber,  ,the  Orange  county  historian,  who  states 
his  objections  as  follows: 

"The  story  was  repudiated  as  a  statement  of  fact,  first, 
on  the  authority  of  Indian  customs.  We  do  not  recall  a 
single  instance  where  a  woman  was  burned  at  the  stake  by 
the  Indians.  They  killed  female  prisoners  on  the  march 
sometimes,  when  they  were  too  feeble  to  keep  up,  but  very 
rarely  indeed  after  reaching  camp. — Mrs.  DuBois  and  her 
companions  had  been  prisoners  from  June  19th  to  Septem- 
ber 5th,  or  nearly  three  months  before  they  were  rescued 
from  captivity.  During  all  that  time  they  had  been  guarded 
carefully  at  the  castle  of  the  Indians,  and  held  for  ransom 
or  exchange,  to  which  end  negotiations  had  been  opened, 
the  Indians  asking  especially  the  return  of  some  of  their 
chiefs  who  had  been  sent  to  Curagoa  and  sold  as  slaves  by 
Governor  Stuyvesant. 

Second :  documentary  evidence  concerning  the  events 
of  that  period  is  entirely  against  the  tradition.  The  writ- 
ten record  is,  that  when  the  Dutch  forces  surprised  the  In- 
dians, the  latter  were  busy  in  constructing  a  third  angle  to 
their  fort  for  the  purpose  of  strengthening  it,  instead  of 
being  engaged  in  preparations  for  burning  prisoners.  (See 
Kregier's  Journal.)  The  prisoners  were  found  alive  and 
well,  and  no  complaint  is  recorded  of  any  ill  treatment,  not 
even  that  their  heads  had  been  shaved  and  painted,  as  had 
been  customary.  Every  night,  says  the  record,  they  were 
removed  from  the  castle  to  the  woods,  lest  the  Dutch  should 
recover  them  before  negotiations  for  their  release  were  con- 
summated.     The    entire    drift    of    the    record    narrative    is 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  9 

against  even  the  probability  of  an  intention  to  burn,  much 
more  so  of  preparation  to  do  so." 

In  answer  to  ^Ir.  Ruttenber's  objections  we  will  say,  that 
it  is  probable  that  the  Indians  had  heard  of  the  presence  of 
the  Dutch  soldiers  at  Kingston,  but  supposed  they  would 
tarry  there  longer  before  marching  on  their  stronghold, 
and  that  being  enraged  at  the  failure  of  their  negotiations 
for  the  exchange  of  their  captives  for  their  chiefs  who  were 
prisoners   at   Curacoa,  they   detemiined  to  burn  them   at  the 

stake. 

Tradition  states  that  during  the  advance  for  the  rescue  of 
the  captives,  an  Indian,  who  was  no  doubt  a  scout  and  had 
fallen  asleep,  was  killed  by  Louis  DuBois  with  his  sword 
near  Libertyville,  before  the  savage  had  opportunity  to  let 
fly  his  arrow.     His  death  prevented  the  news  of  the  ap- 
proach of  the  white  men  being  given  to  their  savage  foes. 
The  Indians  at  the  fort  were  taken  by  surprise ;    a  squaw, 
named  Basha,  who  had  gone  to  the  spring  a  short  distance 
north  of  the  fort  for  water,  raised  an  alarm  and  Louis  Du- 
Bois shot  her  with  his  gun  and  she  fell  in  the  spring,  which 
still  bears  her  name.     The  settler's  dogs,  which  had  accom- 
panied the  party,  rushed  on  and  the  cry  "White  men's  dogs" 
was  raised.     The  Indians  in  the  ensuing  fight  lost  their  chief 
and  twenty-one  men  killed  and  thirteen  prisoners.     Captain 
Kregier  lost  five  men  killed  and  six  wounded.     He  recovered 
twentv-three  women  and  children  who  had  been  captured 
by  the  Indians  at  Kingston  and  Hurley.     The  Indian  fort 
was  surrounded  with  palisades  as  thick  as  a  man's  body 
and  fifteen  feet  high,  but  it  was  not  yet  completed.     The 
surprise  of  the  Indians  was  so  complete  that  tradition  states 
that  Louis  DuBois's  wife  started  to  run  with  the  others 
at   first,   but   was   recalled    by   the    voice    of   her   husband. 


lo  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

exclaiming  in  his  excitement,  "Stop,  'Trene,  or  I'll  shoot 
you." 

In  1665  the  LeFevre  brothers,  Simon  and  Andre,  came  to 
Kingston,  and  in  April  united  with  the  church  at  that  place. 
They  had  been  at  Manheim  in  the  Palatinate,  but  their 
native  spot  in  France  is  not  known.  It  is  possible  that  they 
were  of  the  kindred  of  James  LeFevre,  the  great  French 
preacher  and  reformer,  who  was  from  Etaples,  on  the  Eng- 
lish channel,  in  the  ancient  province  of  Picardy.  They  were 
unmarried  men,  probably  quite  young,  when  they  came  to 
Kingston. 

The  English  conquest  of  the  New  Netherlands  took  place 
at  about  this  date,  and  the  unsettled  condition  of  the  pro- 
vinces prevented  the  coming  of  other  Huguenots  to  King- 
ston for  a  time. 

In  the  spring  of  1673  came  Jean  Hasbrouck  and  his  wife, 
Anna,  daughter  of  Christian  Deyo,  and  their  two  unmarried 
daughters,  Mary  and  Hester.  Jean  and  his  brother,  Abra- 
ham, who  came  later,  were  natives  of  Calais.  Jean  brought 
with  him  his  certificate  of  church  membership. 

In  1673,  likewise  came  Louis  Bevier,  who  was  a  cousin 
of  the  Hasbrouck  brothers,  and  his  wife,  Maria  LeBlan. 

About  three  years  later  came  Hugo  Freer  and  his  wife, 
Mary  Hays,  and  their  three  children,  Hugo,  Abraham  and 
Isaac. 

Abraham  Hasbrouck  sailed  from  Amsterdam  in  1675 
and  landed  at  Boston.  Shortly  after  he  joined  his  brother 
in  Kingston. 

Probably  the  last  of  the  Patentees  to  cross  the  ocean  were 
Christian  Deyo  and  his  son,  Pierre.  Pierre's  wife,  Agatha 
Nickol,  and  their  child  came  with  them ;  likewise  his  three 
unmarried    sisters,    Maria,    Elizabeth    and    Margaret,    who 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  ii 

afterwards  became  the  wives  respectively  of  Abraham  Has- 
brouck,  Simon  LeFever  and  Abraham  DuBois. 

There  was  now  quite  a  number  of  Huguenots  at  Kingston 
and  Hurley.  No  doubt  they  longed  for  a  settlement  of  their 
own  where  they  might  speak  their  own  language  and  form 
a  community  by  themselves.  Kingston  was  dropping  its 
character  as  a  trading  post.  The  traffic  with  the  Indians, 
in  furs,  was  becoming  less  profitable.  The  cultivation  of 
the  soil  was  becoming  more  and  more  a  necessary  occupa- 
tion. The  fertile  lowdands  of  the  Wallkill  had  doubtless 
recurred  again  and  again  to  the  recollection  of  Louis  DuBois. 
In  the  meantime  the  colony  of  New  York  had  finally  passed 
from  the  control  of  the  Dutch  to  the  English.  Edmund 
Andross  was  the  Colonial  Governor.  Among  the  Hugue- 
not settlers  at  Kingston,  at  this  time,  was  Abraham  Has- 
brouck.  He  had  served  with  Edmund  Andross  in  the  Eng- 
lish army.  He  was  a  native  of  Calais ;  had  emigrated  to 
Manheim,  and  in  1673  to  America,  settling  finally  in  Esopus 

The  Huguenots,  being  desirous  of  forming  a  settlement 
of  their  own,  were  indebted,  to  some  extent,  to  the  ac- 
quaintanceship of  Abraham  Hasbrouck  with  Governor  An- 
dross for  the  grant  of  so  fine  a  tract  as  they  obtained. 
It  is  related  that  Governor  Andross  wanted  them  to  take 
more  land  along  the  river  to  the  southward,  as  far  as  Mur- 
derer's Creek,  but  upon  examining  the  land  they  found  it  so 
rough  they  declared  they  did  not  want  it. 

Four  months  previous  to  the  grant  from  Governor  An- 
dross the  land  was  purchased  of  the  Indians,  and  the  article 
signed  bestowing  upon  Louis  DuBois  and  his  associates  the 
territory  comprising  the  Paltz  patent,  occupying  all  the 
present  town  of  Lloyd,  about  two-thirds  of  New  Paltz,  one- 
third  of  Esopus  and  one-fourth  of  Rosendale.     In  the  records 


12  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ. 

of  the  patentees — as  these  twelve  men  were  called — long 
preserved  in  an  ancient  trunk  in  the  Huguenot  Bank  at  New 
Paltz,  is  the  copy  of  the  document  signed  by  the  Indians 
on  their  part,  and  by  Louis  DuBois  and  his  associates;  like- 
wise by  Jan  Eltinge  and  others,  as  witnesses.  This  is  dated 
May  26,  1677.  Here  is  likewise  the  confirmation  or  grant 
from  Governor  Andross,  covering  the  same  territory,  dated 
September  29,  1677.  The  four  corners  of  the  patent  were 
Moggonck — now  Mohonk;  Juifrou's  Hook,  the  point  in  the 
Hudson  where  the  town  line  between  Lloyd  and  Marl- 
borough strikes  the  river ;  Rapoos — Pell's  Island,  and  Tower 
a  Toque,  a  point  of  white  rocks  in  the  Shawangunks  near 
Rosendale  Plains. 

The  papers  relating  to  the  matter  in  the  Patentees'  trunk 
are  in  Dutch  and  are  translated  by  Rev.  Ame  Vennema  as 
follows : 

By  approbation  of  his  Excellency  Governor  Edmond  An- 
dras,  dated  April  28,  1677,  an  agreement  is  made  on  this 
date,  the  26th  of  May,  of  the  year  1677,  ^o^  the  purchase  of 
certain  lands,  between  the  parties  herein  named  and  the  un- 
dersigned Esopus  Indians. 

Matsayay,  Nekahakaway,  Magakahas,  Assinnerakan,  Wa- 
wawanis  acknowledge  to  have  sold  to  Lowies  du  Booys 
and  his  partners  the  land  described  as  follows :  Beginning 
from  the  high  hills  at  a  place  named  Moggonck,  from  thence 
south-east  toward  the  river  to  a  point  named  Juffrous 
Hoock,  lying  in  the  Long  Reach,  named  by  the  Indians 
Magaatramis,  then  north  up  along  the  river  to  the  island 
called  by  the  Indians  Raphoes,  then  west  toward  the  high 
hills  to  a  place  called  Waratahaes  and  Tawaentaqui,  along 
the  high  hills  south-west  to  Moggonck,  being  described  by 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  13 

the  four  corners  with  everything  included  within  these  boun- 
daries, hills,  dales,  waters,  etc.,  and  a  right  of  way  to  the 
Ronduyt  kill  as  directly  as  it  can  be  found,  and  also  that  the 
Indians  shall  have  the  same  right  to  hunt  and  to  fish  as  the 
Christians,  for  which  land  the  Indians  have  agreed  to  accept 
the  articles  here  specified : 

40  kettles,  10  large,  30  small ;  40  axes;  40  adzes ;  40  shirts ; 
400  fathoms  of  white  net-work ;  300  fathoms  of  black  net- 
work ;  60  pairs  of  stockings,  half  small  sizes ;  100  bars  of 
lead  ;  i  keg  of  powder  ;  100  knives  ;  4  kegs  of  wine  ;  40  oars  ; 
40  pieces  of  "dufifel"  (heavy  woolen  cloth)  ;  60  blankets ; 
100  needles  ;  100  awls  ;  i  measure  of  tobacco  ;  2  horses — 
I  stallion,  i  mare : 

Parties  on  both  sides  acknowledge  to  be  fully  satisfied 
herewith  and  have  affixed  their  own  signatures  ad  ut  supra. 
Matsaya  x  his  mark  ;  Waehtonck  x  his  mark  ;  Seneraken 
X  his  mark;  Magakahoos  x  his  mark;  Wawateanis  x  his 
mark;  Lowies  Du  Booys ;  Christian  de  Yoo  x  his  mark; 
Abraham  Haesbroecq ;  Andrie  Lefeber ;  JanBroecq;  Piere 
Doyo;  Anthony  Crespel ;  Abraham  Du  Booys;  Hugo 
Freer;   Isaack  D.  Boojs;   Symon  Lefeber. 

Witnesses:   Jan  Eltinge ;   Jacomeyntje  Sleght;   Jan  Mat- 

tyse.     Agrees  with  the  original.     W.  La :  ^lontague,  Secry. 

I  do  allow  of  the  within  Bargaine  and  shall  Grant  patents 

for  y  Same  when  payments  made  accordingly  before  mee 

or  Magistrates  of  Esopus. 

Andross. 

We  the  undersigned  persons,  former  owners  of  the  land 
sold  to  Lowies  du  Booys  and  his  partners  acknowledge  to 
have  been  fully  satisfied  by  them  according  to  agreement, 


14  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

we  therefore  transfer  the  designated  land  with  a  free  right 
of  way  for  them  and  their  heirs,  and  relinquishing  ferever 
our  right  and  title,  will  protect  them  against  further  claims, 
in  token  whereof  we  have  affixed  our  signatures  in  the  pres- 
ence of  the  Justice,  Sheriff,  Magistrates  and  Bystanders, 
on  the  15  September,  1677,  at  Hurley,  Esopus  Sackmakers, 
Witnesses :  Sewakuny  x  his  mark ;  Hamerwack  x  his 
mark ;  Manvest  x  her  mark ;  Mahente ;  Papoehkies  x  his 
mark  ;  Pochquqet  x  his  mark  ;  Haroman  x  his  mark  ;  Pago- 
tamin  x  his  mark ;  Haromini  x  his  mark ;  Wingatiek  x  his 
mark  ;  Wissinahkan  x  his  mark  ;  Mattawessick  x  his  mark  ; 
Matsayay  x  his  mark ;  Asserwvaka  x  his  mark ;  Umtronok 
X  his  mark ;  Wawanies  x  sister  in  his  absence  called  Wara- 
wenhtow ;  Magakhoos  x  her  mark;  Wawej ask  x  his  mark; 
Nawas  x  his  mark ;  Tomaehkapray  x  his  mark ;  Sagaro- 
wanto  X  his  mark;  Sawanawams  x  his  mark;  Machkamoeke 
X  his  mark. 

Witnesses  :  Jan  Eltinge  ;  Roelof  Hender3^ckx ;  John  Ward  ; 
Gars  X  Harris ;  Albert  Jansen. 

Testis  :  Thomas  Chambers  ;  Hall  Sherrife  ;  Wessel  Ten 
Broeck;  Dirck  Schepmoes  ;  Hendrik  Jochensen.  Joost  de  Yadus ; 
Garit  x  Cornelise  ;    Lambert  x  Huybertse. 

Mattav .  has  publicly  proclaimed  and  acknowledged  in  the 
presence  of  all  the  Indian  bystanders  that  the  land  had  been 
fully  paid  for  in  which  all  concurred. 

Testis  :  W  :  Montague,  Seer. 

The  grant  by  Gov.  Edmund  Andross,  confirming  this  pur- 
chase from  the  Indians,  is  in  English  as  follows : 

Edmund  Andros,  Esqr. 

Seigneur  of  Sansmarez,  Lieut,  t  Governor  Generall  tmder 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  15 

his  Royall  Highness :  James  Duke  of  Yorke  &  Albany  &c. 
of  all  his  Territoryes  in  America.  Whereas  there  is  a  cer- 
tain piece  of  Land  att  Esopiis,  the  which  by  my  approba- 
con  and  Consent,  hath  been  purchased  of  the  Indian  Pro- 
prietors, by  Lewis  DuBois  and  Partners ;  The  said  Land 
lyeing  on  the  South  side  of  the  Redoute  Creek  or  Kill,  be- 
ginning from  the  High  Hills  called  Moggonck,  from  thence 
stretching  South  East  neare  the  Great  River,  to  a  certain 
Point  or  Hooke,  called  the  Jeuft'rous  Hoocke,  lyeing  in  the 
long  Reach  named  by  the  Indyans  Magaatramis,  then  North 
up  alengst  the  River  to  an  Island  in  a  Crooked  Elbow  in 
the  Beginning  of  the  Long  Reach  called  by  the  Indyans 
Raphoos,  then  West,  on  to  the  High  Hills,  to  a  place  called 
Waratahaes  and  Tawaratague,  and  so  alongst  the  said  High 
Hills  South  West  to  Moggonck  aforesaid  ;  All  which  hath 
by  the  Magistrates  of  Esopus  been  certifyed  unto  mee,  to 
have  been  publiquely  bought  and  paid  for  in  their  presence ; 
As  by  the  returne  from  theme  doth  and  may  appeare : 
Knoiu  yee  that  by  vertue  of  his  ]\Ia,  ties  Letters  Patents, 
and  the  Commission  and  authority  unto  mee  given  by  his 
Royall  Highness,  I  have  given,  Ratifyed,  confirmed  and 
granted,  and  by  these  presents  doe  hereby  give,  ratify,  con- 
firme  &  grant  unto  the  said  Lewis  DuBois  and  Partners, 
Thatt  is  to  say.  Christian  Doyo,  Abraham  Haesbroecq, 
Andries  Lefevre,  Jean  Broecq,  Pierre  Doyo,  Laurens  Biverie, 
Anthony  Crespell,  Abraham  DuBois,  Hugo  Erere,  Isaack 
DuBois,  and  Symeon  LeFevre,  their  heyres  and  Assignes, 
the  afore  recited  piece  of  Land  and  premises ;  Together 
with  all  the  Lands,  Soyles,  Woods,  Hills,  Dales,  meadowes, 
pastures.  Marshes,  Lakes,  waters.  Rivers,  fishing,  Hawking, 
Hunting  and  fowling,  and  all  other  Profitts,  Commoditys, 
and  Emoluments  whatsoever  to  the  said  piece  of  land  and 


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HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  17 


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premises  belonging,  with  their  &  every  of  their  appurte- 
nances, &  of  every  part  and  parcell  thereof;  To  have  and 
to  hold  the  said  piece  of  Land  and  Premises,  with  all  and 
Singular  the  appurtenances  unto  the  said  Lewis  DuBois 
and  partners  their  heyres  and  Assignes,  to  the  proper  use 
and  behoofe  of  him  the  said  Lewis  DuBois  and  partners 
their  heyres  and  Assignes  for  ever.  And  that  the  planta- 
cons  which  shall  bee  settled  upon  the  said  piece  of  land  bee 
a  Township,  and  that  the  Inhabitants  to  have  liberty  to 
make  a  High  Way  between  them  and  the  Redout  Creeke  or 
Kill  for  their  Convenience.  Hee,  the  said  Lewis  DuBois 
and  partners  their  heyres  and  Assigns,  Returning  due  Sur- 
veys &  makeing  improvem't  thereon  according  to  Law ; 
And  Yielding  and  paying  therefore  yearely  and  every  yeare 
unto  his  Royall  Highnesse  use  as  an  acknowledgment  or 
Ouitt  Rent  att  the  Redout  in  Esopus  five  bushells  of  good 
Winter  Wheat  unto  such  Officer  or  Officers  as  shall  be 
empowered  to  receive  the  same : 

Given  under  my  hand  and  Sealed  with  y  Scale  of  the 
Province  in  New  Yorke  this  29th  day  of  September  in  the 
29th  yeare  of  his  Ma'ties  Reigne,  Anno  Domini  1677. 

Andross. 

Examined  by  mee, 

Matthias :  Nicolls,  Seer. 

The  final  action  taken  by  Governor  Andros  in  regard  to 
granting  the  patent  appears  in  the  Documentary  History 
of  New  York  as  follows : 

Upon  request  of  Louis  DuBois  and  partners  at  Esopus, 
that  they  may  have  Liberty  to  goe  and  settle  upon  the  land 
by  them  purchased  on  the  South  side  of  the  Redout  Creek, 
at  their  first  convenience,  these  are  to  certify  that  they  have 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  19 

Liberty  so  to  do,  Provided  they  build  a  Redoute  there  first 
for  a  place  of  Retreat  and  Safeguard  upon  Occasion : 
Action  in  New  York,  November,  1677.  E.  Andros. 

All  Probably  Lived  at  Hurley — the  New  Village  (Three 
Miles  from  Kingston) 

From  the  Kingston  records  it  appears  that  Andre  LeFevre 
one  of  the  New  Paltz  Patentees  owned  a  house  and  lot  at 
Hurley  which  he  sold,  June  29,  1680,  to  Hyman  Allertson 
Roosa.  This  house  he  had  bought  of  the  executors  of  Cor- 
nelius Wynkoop.  It  also  appears  from  the  same  records  that 
about  1678  Simon  LeFevre  the  Patentee  transferred  for  his 
father-in-law  Christian  Deyo  a  lot  and  house  at  Hurley  to 
Cornelius  Wolverson. 

Thus  is  afforded  additional  evidence  that  the  New  Paltz 
Patentees  were  residents  of  Hurley  before  coming  to  New 
Paltz.  We  know  of  no  evidence  that  a  single  one  of  the  num- 
ber lived  in  Kingston.  It  has  been  shown  that  Anthony  Cris- 
pell  lived  at  Hurley  and  never  moved  to  New  Paltz,  the  treaty 
with  the  Indians  was  made  at  Hurley,  Louis  DuBois  was  a 
magistrate  at  Hurley,  Abraham  Hasbrouck  the  Patentee  mar- 
ried the  daughter  of  Christian  Deyo  at  Hurley.  Abraham 
Deyo,  son  of  Pierre  the  Patentee  was  born  at  the  same  place. 
Quite  possibly  we  may  yet  find  houses  once  owmed  by  New 
Paltz  Patentees  still  standing  in  the  ancient  village  of  Hurley. 
It  would  no  doubt  be  laborious  but  perhaps  not  impossible  to 
trace  the  ownership  down  to  the  present  day. 


20  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 


CHAPTER  II 

All  the  Frenchmen  at  Kingston  did  not  move  to  Nev 
Paltz.  On  the  church  records  at  the  former  place  are 
found*  the  names  of  Perrine,  Depuy,  Gasherie,  Delemater 
and  others,  not  to  be  found  on  the  church  book  at  New 
Paltz.  Anthony  Crispell,  although  having  a  share  in  the 
New  Paltz  patent,  never  moved  there,  but  remained  at 
Hurley.  The  eleven  who  came  to  New  Paltz  were,  to  a 
considerable  extent,  related  to  each  other.  Abram  and 
Isaac  DuBois,  the  latter  but  eighteen  years  of  age,  were  the 
sons  of  Louis ;  the  two  Deyos  were  father  and  son.  The 
two  Hasbroucks  were  brothers,  and  so  were  the  two  Le- 
Fevers.  Four  of  the  patentees,  Abram  DuBois,  the  two 
Hasbrouck  brothers  and  Simon  LeFever,  married  the  four 
daughters  of  Christian  Deyo,  who  was  usually  called  Grand- 
pere  or  Grandfather.     Andries  LeFever  did  not  marry. 

From  Kingston  the  little  party  came  to  New  Paltz  in 
three  carts,  and  the  spot  of  their  encampment,  about  a 
mile  south  of  the  village,  on  the  west  side  of  the  Walkill, 
is  still  known  as  "Tri-Cor,"  in  English  three  carts.  Tra- 
dition relates  that  when  they  alighted  one  of  the  party  read 
for  them  the  37th  Psalm. 

In  1686,  Louis  DuBois,  who  had  been  the  leader  of  the 
settlement,  returned  from  New  Paltz  to  Kingston,  where 
he  purchased  a  house,  and  lived  ten  years,  until  his  dea^-h 
in  1696.  His  son,  Isaac,  had  died  six  years  before  at  the 
early  age  of  thirty-one. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  21 

More  Land  Wanted 

At  the  outset  the  Patentees  had  quite  as  much  land  as 
they  wanted,  but  it  was  only  a  few  years  before  they  were 
ready  to  acquire  more  land,  as  shown  by  the  following  paper 
in  the  Patentees'  trunk  in  the  Dutch  language,  dated  i68f, 
applying  for  permission  to  purchase  lands  of  the  Indians, 
which  translated  literally  reads  as  follows : 

To  the  Hon.  Justice  of  the  Court  now  in  session  at  Kingston, 

We  citizens  of  New  Paltz  inform  your  Honor  that  we 
must  keep  a  great  fence  between  us  and  the  Indians,  and 
that  the  Indians  are  disposed  to  sell  us  their  land  to  their 
New  Indian  Fort.  We  therefore  humbly  petition  your 
Honor  to  give  us  a  further  hearing  upon  the  approval  of 
His  Excellency  the  Governor,  and  we  will  then  give  satis- 
faction to  the  Indians.  We  remain  your  servants.  In  the 
name  of  the  citizens  of  New  Paltz. 

Abraham  Hasbrouck, 
Jean  Hasbrouck, 
Louis  Baijvier. 

Permission  is  granted  to  the  citizens  of  New  Paltz  to  pur- 
chase of  the  Indians,  on  approval  of  His  Excellency  the 
Governor,  the  unpurchased  lands,  to  wit :  Sewakanamie  and 
Sewankonck,  to  the  New  Indian  Fort. 

By  order  of  the  Special  Session  Court  held  in  Kingston, 
February  13,  i68|. 

Rv.nd  d  La  Monragerh. 
This  purchase  of  land  was  never  made. 


22  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Deed  of  Gift  to  Jean  Cottin,  the  Schoolmaster 

To  the  general  reader  there  is  no  paper  in  the  Freer  col- 
lection of  greater  interest  than  the  copy  of  the  deed  of  gift 
to  Jean  Cottin,  the  schoolmaster,  of  a  house  and  lot  in  the 
little  settlement  in  1689,  just  eleven  years  after  the  first 
settlers  arrived  on  the  ground.  The  copy  was  made  in 
1707.  The  paper  is  in  good  French,  the  writing  legible, 
but  the  lines  and  the  words  in  the  lines  crowded  so  close 
together  that  it  is  difficult  to  read  it  on  that  account.  A 
rough  translation  is  as  follows : 

We  the  undersigned  gentlemen,  resident  proprietors  of 
the  twelve  parts  of  the  village  of  New  Paltz,  a  dependency 
of  Kingston,  county  of  Ulster,  province  of  New  York,  certify 
that  ot  our  good  will  and  to  give  pleasure  to  Jean  Cottin, 
schoolmaster  at  said  Paltz,  we  to  him  have  given  gratu- 
itously a  little  cottage  to  afford  him  a  home,  situate  at  said 
Paltz,  at  the  end  of  the  street  on  the  left  hand  near  the 
large  clearing  (creupelbose)  extending  one  "lizier"  to  the 
place  reserved  for  building  the  church  and  continuing  in  a 
straight  line  to  the  edge  of  the  clearing,  thence  one  "lizier" 
to  the  extremity  of  the  clearing  to  the  north,  thence  running 
along  the  street  and  continuing  to  the  west  (couchant  soliel) 
as  far  as  the  extremity  of  the  clearing,  and  we  guarantee  the 
said  Cottin  that  he  shall  be  placed  in  possession  without 
any  trouble  and  we  allow  said  Cottin  to  cut  wood  convenient 
to  his  purpose  for  building  and  he  is  given  the  pasturage 
for  two  cows  and  their  calves  and  a  mare  and  colt.  We  the 
proprietors  at  the  same  time  agree  among  ourselves,  for  the 
interest  of  our  own  homes  to  request  said  Cottin  that  he  will 
not  sell  the  above  mentioned  property  to  any  one  not  of 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  23 

good  life  and  manners,  and  we  are  not  to  keep  said  Cottin 
as  schoolmaster  longer  than  we  think  fit  and  proper. 

Done  at  New  Paltz,  August  i,  1689. 

Thus  signed :  Abraham  hasbroucq,  pierre  doio,  Jean  has- 
broucq  has  made  his  mark  HB,  hugue  frere  has  made  his 
mark  X,  Abraham  dubois,  Isaac  dubois,  Louis  dubois,  An- 
thoine  Crespel,  Louis  Beviere,  Lisbette  doyau  has  made 
her  mark  E.  D. 

We  Anthoine  Crespel  and  Estienne  Gacherie  certify  that 
this  copy  is  true,  just  and  conformable.  In  evidence  we 
have  signed. 

Anthoine  Crespel. 

Estienne  Gasherie. 

Kingston,  October  9,  1707. 

In  presence  of  me, 

D.  Wynkoop, 

Justice  of  Peace. 

This  deed  of  gift  throws  a  strong  light  on  the  character 
of  the  Huguenot  settlers  at  New  Paltz.  It  shows  that  they 
highly  prized  education,  that  they  already  had  a  school- 
master, only  eleven  years  after  the  date  of  the  first  settle- 
ment, and  that  they  treated  him  with  great  kindness ;  it 
shows,  moreover,  that  they  had  a  lot  reserved  for  a  church, 
that  they  objected  to  a  sale  of  property  to  any  person  "not 
of  good  life  and  manners,"  and  their  business  ideas  were 
sufficiently  practical  that  they  did  not  care  to  bind  them- 
selves to  employ  Jean  Cottin  as  schoolmaster  longer  than 
they  saw  fit  and  proper. 


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HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  25 

The  French  Schoolmasters  at  New  Paltz 

In  the  early  history  of  New  Paltz  two  men  stand  out  as 
■pastors  and  two  as  schoolmasters  in  the  little  community. 
The  two  French  pastors,  Rev.  Pierre  Daillie  and  Rev.  David 
Bonrepos  have  had  their  names  and  memories  preserved  in. 
the  church  records,  but  it  is  only  within  the  past  few  years 
that  documents  have  been  brought  to  light  showing  who  it 
was  that  taught  the  school  in  those  early  days.  In  the  same 
building  in  which  the  Huguenot  pastors  preached  the  gospel 
and  baptised  the  children  on  their  occasional  visits  to  New 
Paltz,  in  the  years  preceding  1700,  two  other  Huguenots  of 
learning  and  ability  gathered  their  little  flock  to  instruct 
them  in  secular  learning  on  week  days  and  probably  in  re- 
ligious matters  on  the  Sabbath,  in  the  absence  of  the  pastor. 

It  is  greatly  to  the  credit  of  the  New  Paltz  people  that 
they  organized  a  school  as  well  as  a  church  at  so  early  a 
date.  In  their  kind  and  liberal  treatment  of  their  instruc- 
tors they  set  an  example  to  people  of  the  present  day. 

Neither  of  these  French  schoolmasters  left  descendants. 
One  bequeathed  his  little  property  to  the  church  at  New 
Paltz ;  the  other  his  considerable  estate  to  the  church  at 
Kingston. 

From  1696  to  1700  the  children  in  the  little  community 
were  taught  by  Jean  Tebenin,  as  is  shown  by  the  certificate, 
in  French,  among  the  papers  that  have  come  down  in  the 
family  of  Isaac  DuBois  the  Patentee,  which  is  as  follows : 

Nous  Ministers  &  Anciens  de  L'Eglise  frangoise  aux  palls 
■de  la  province  del  la  Nole  York  dans  L'Amerique,  certifions 
que  le  Sr.  Jean  Tebenin  ayant  demeure  avec  nous  pendant 
I'espace  de  quatre  ans  pour  maistre  d'escole  &  pour  LTnstruc- 
tion   de  nos   enfans,   a   toujours   fait   le   devoir   d'   un   bon   & 


2.6  HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z 

veritable  christien,  frequente  nos  saintes  assembles,  &  participe 
a  sacrement  de  la  cene  du  Siegneur — c'est  pourquoi  Nous  le 
recommendons.      [There  is  here  a  small  portion  of  the  docu- 
ment illegible,  but  the  signatures  are  plain.] 
Aux  palls  ce  May  1700. 

D.  Bonrepos,  pasteur. 

Jean  hasbrouck  anciens. 

*     *     Bayvier. 

On  the  back  of  the  paper  is  written : 

Atestation  pour  Jean  Tebenin  faite  Au  pals  Lan  1700. 

That  is : 

Attestation  for  Jean  Tebenin,  made  at  the  Paltz  in  the 

year  1700. 

Translation. 

We,  minister  and  elders,  of  the  French  church  at  the  Paltz 
of  the  province  of  New  York  in  America,  certify  that  Mr. 
Jean  Tebenin  having  lived  with  us  during  the  space  of  four 
years  for  schoolmaster  and  for  the  instruction  of  our  chil- 
dren, has  always  done  the  duty  of  a  good  and  true  Chris- 
tian, frequented  our  holy  assemblies  and  partaken  of  the 
sacrament  of  the  Lord's  supper — therefore  we  recommend 
him. 

At  Paltz,  the  —  May,  1700.  D.  Bonrepos,  Pastor. 

Jean  hasbrouck, 
Bayvier,  Elders. 

Jean  Tebenin  may  have  again  taught  the  school  at  a 
later  date.  We  have  no  evidence  on  this  point.  He  cer- 
tainly lived  at  New  Paltz  at  a  much  later  date.  In  his  will, 
dated  in  1730,  and  preserved  in  the  Patentees'  trunk,  he 
gives  his  property  to  the  church  at  New  Paltz,  with  the 
special  request  that  if  the  French  language  should  cease  to 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  27 

be  used  his  copy  of  the  Bible  be  sold  and  the  proceeds 
given  to  the  poor. 

As  the  Huguenots  at  that  time  had  no  religious  schools 
or  seminaries,  either  in  France  or  America,  the  poor  old 
schoolmaster's  apprehension  was  sure  to  be  realized.  When 
the  old  French  ministers  were  dead  there  was  none  edu- 
cated in  the  French  tongue  to  stand  in  their  stead. 

We  have  no  further  information  concerning  Jean  Tebenin 
except  that  he  was  godfather  at  one  or  two  baptisms  of 
children  at  New  Paltz. 

The  other  French  schoolmaster  at  New  Paltz  was  Jean 
Cottin.  He  was  a  prominent  man  in  the  community,  and 
lived  many  years  at  New  Paltz.  Afterwards  he. moved  to 
Kingston,  married  the  widow  of  Louis  DuBois  the  Patentee 
and  for  many  years  carried  on  the  mercantile  business. 

Jean  Cottin's  name  appears  on  the  church  records  at  New 
Paltz  in  1690  as  godfather  at  the  baptism  of  Hendricus,  son 
of  Pierre  Deyo.  He  was  the  schoolmaster  as  early  as  1689. 
For  about  ten  years  after  this  date  he  resided  at  New  Paltz. 

In  1701,  Jean  Cottin  sold  a  house  and  lot  in  this  village 
to  Hugo  Freer,  the  deed,  in  French,  being  still  among  the 
Freer  papers.  This  was  certainly  the  house  and  lot  which 
the  New  Paltz  people  had  given  him,  the  deed  of  gift  being 
turned  over  to  the  purchaser  and  still  preserved  among  his 
papers. 

We  have  no  record  showing  the  date  of  the  marriage  of 
Jean  Cottin  and  Catharine,  widow  of  Louis  DuBois  the 
Patentee.  The  first  record  we  have  bearing  on  this  point  is 
in  1703,  when  at  the  baptism  of  a  negro  slave  girl  in  the 
church  at  Kingston  she  promises  to  serve  her  mistress, 
Catharine,  and  her  master,  Jean  Cottin,  faithfully  as  long 
as  they  live  and  she  shall  then  be  free. 


28  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

The  widow  of  Louis  DuBois  the  Patentee  was  a  rich 
woman  for  those  days.  In  his  will  Louis  had  performed 
the  very  unuaual  act  of  bestowing  on  her  the  full  half  of  the 
property,  in  case  she  should  marry  again.  Louis  had  moved 
from  New  Paltz  to  Kingston  in  1686,  and  died  there  ten 
years  later.  Mrs.  DuBois'  father,  Matthew  Blanshan,  was 
a  very  rich  man.  Probably  much  of  the  property  in  the 
family  had  come  from  him. 

Be  that  as  it  may,  Jean  Cottin  sold  his  house  and  lot  at 
New  Paltz,  moved  to  Kingston,  married  the  widow  of  Louis 
DuBois  and  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business,  which  he 
carried  on  for  about  twenty  years.  Among  the  Freer  papers 
are  a  nvimber  with  his  signature.  One  is  written  in  Eng- 
lish, with  a  delightful  French  brogue.  In  a  letter  still  pre- 
served among  these  old  papers  Mr.  Cottin  duns  the  recip- 
ient in  a  very  polite  manner,  saying :  "You  pay  others ;  me 
you  neglect." 

When  Jean  Cottin  died,  about  1723,  he  left  his  property, 
including  his  account  books,  which  were  in  the  French  lan- 
guage, to  the  church  at  Kingston.  These  account  books 
are  still  in  the  chest  containing  the  papers  of  the  Kingston 
church. 

Houses  Built  by  the  Patentees 

The  first  settlers  all  undoubtedly  lived  on  what  is  now 
called  Huguenot  street  in  this  village.  About  thirty  years 
after  the  first  settlement,  the  log  houses  of  the  pioneers 
began  to  be  superseded  by  the  stone  houses  which  have 
come  down  to  the  present  day. 

Commencing  on  the  south  end  of  the  street,  on  the  west, 
Jean  Hasbrouck  lived  on  the  site,  now  the  Memorial  House. 
This  house   bears  the   date  of   1712,   and   there  is   not  the 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  29 

shadow  of  a  doubt  that  it  came  straight  down  from  Jean  to 
his  son,  Jacob,  then  to  his  son,  Jacob,  Jr.,  then  to  his  son. 
Colonel  Josiah,  then  to  his  son,  Levi,  from  whom  it  passed 
to  his  son,  Josiah,  after  whose  death  it  was  sold  with  his 
other  real  estate  and  became  the  property  of  Jesse  Eltinge. 

The  house  across  the  street  now  owned  and  occupied 
by  Abm.  D.  Brodhead  and  previously  by  his  grandfather. 
Sheriff  Abm.  A.  Deyo,  Jr.,  has  come  straight  down  from 
one  Abm.  Deyo  to  another  from  the  time  of  the  first  x'Vbm., 
grandson  of  Christian,  the  patentee. 

In  this  house  Senator  Jacob  Hardenburgh  was  born,  his 
father,  Richard  Hardenburgh,  renting  the  farm  at  this  time, 
while  its  owner.  Judge  Abm.  A.  Deyo.  resided  at  Modena. 

The  house  now  owned  and  occupied  by  Mrs.  Mary  Du- 
Bois  Berry's  heirs  has  come  as  straight  down  in  the  family 
as  either  the  Hasbrouck  or  Deyo  houses  mentioned.  This 
house  still  bears,  in  large  iron  figures,  the  date  of  its  erection, 
1705,  and  on  the  eastern  wall,  fronting  on  the  street,  may 
be  seen  the  port  holes — now -closed  with  brick — which,  in 
the  ancient  times,  had  been  provided  as  precautions,  un- 
needed,  however,  against  the  attacks  of  the  savages. 

Across  the  street,  with  its  gable-end  to  the  road,  stands 
the  original  Bevier  house,  which,  however,  passed  into  the 
possession  of  the  Eltings  considerably  over  100  years  ago. 
This  was  the  Elting  store  for  a  considerable  time  before  the 
Revolutionary  war,  and  between  this  establishment  and  the 
Hasbrouck  store,  in  the  house  first  described,  the  sharpest 
kind  of  rivalry  existed.  In  the  chimney  of  this  house, 
■  until  recently,  the  date,  1735,  was  to  be  seen.  But  the  house 
was  evidently  built  at  two  different  times,  and  the  portion 
with  the  chimney  and  date  quite  certainly  was  built  last. 

Passing  on  still  further  to  the  north,  the  next  house,  now 


30  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

owned  by  Isaiah  Hasbrouck,  has  come  straight  down  from 
Abm.  Hasbrouck,  the  patentee.  We  have  traced  its  own- 
ership to  the  widow  of  Daniel,  son  of  Abm.,  the  patentee. 

The  house  of  Simon  LeFever,  the  patentee,  stood  on  the 
north  end  of  the  present  church  yard.  It  passed  from  the 
possession  of  Simon  to  his  son,  Andries,  then  to  his  son, 
Simon,  then  to  his  son,  Andries,  usually  called  Flagus, 
who  died  about  1811,  and  left  no  son.  This  house  was  torn 
down  when  the  present  brick  church  was  built,  and  the 
stone  went  into  the  foundation  of  the  church  edifice. 

We  have  now  come  to  the  last  stone  house  on  this  street. 
This  was  the  Freer  house,  but  the  Freers  moved  out  of  the 
village  160  years  ago,  and  about  100  years  ago  this  house 
was  occupied  for  a  long  time  by  the  Lows. 

We  have  now  stated  where  each  of  the  patentees  lived 
except  Abram  and  Isaac  DuBois,  who,  being  young,  doubt- 
less lived  with  their  father,  while  Andre  LeFevre,  having 
no  wife,  did  not  need  a  house.  Anthony  Crispell,  as  we 
have  stated,  never  lived  at  New  Paltz,  but  his  daughter, 
who  married  Elias  Fan,  located,  about  1712,  some  four  miles 
north  of  this- village,  on  the  homestead  where  their  descendants 
still  reside. 

Simon  LeFevre  died  young  and  his  widow  married  Moses 
Cantain,  who  occupied  the  homestead  at  New  Paltz  until 
the  LeFevre  boys  were  grown,  and  then  removed  to  Ponck- 
hockie.  The  last  survivor  of  the  patentees  was  Abm.  Du- 
Bois, and  his  grave  in  the  old  church-yard  in  our  village 
is  the  only  one  of  those  of  pioneers  that  is  marked  by  a 
stone.  It  is  a  large  flat  stone,  picked  up  in  the  field,  and 
marked  "1731,  Oct.  7,  A.  D.  Bois,  S  V  R  viver  of  12 
Patentees." 

Pierre  Deyo,  son  of  Pierre,  the  patentee,  met  a  sad  and 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  31 

tragic  fate ;  going  alone  to  search  a  direct  route  eastward 
to  the  Hudson  river,  he  never  returned.  Long  afterward 
the  buckle  of  a  truss  that  he  had  worn  was  found  at  the  foot 
of  a  tree.  He  may  have  died  from  sudden  illness,  or  from 
the  arrow  of  an  Indian. 

Dressmaking  in  the  Old  Days 

Among  the  papers  in  the  Freer  collection  is  one  in  good 
French,  showing  that  at  so  early  a  date  as  1699  the  New 
Paltz  people  were  sufficiently  advanced  in  the  refinements 
of  life  to  have  regularly  taught  dressmakers.  A  translation 
is  as  follows : 

This  day,  the  twenty-seventh  of  October,  1699,  Sara 
Frere,  daughter  of  the  late  Hugues  Frere,  an  inhabitant  of 
the  Paltz,  has  by  the  advice  of  Hugues  Frere,  her  brother, 
as  her  guardian,  promised  to  bind  herself  to  serve  in  the 
capacity  of  dress  maker's  apprentice,  during  the  space  of 
three  years,  to  commence  the  first  of  December  next,  to  Mr. 
David  de  Bonrepos  or  to  Blanche  du  Bois,  his  daughter- 
in-law,  dress  maker,  and  to  obey  them  in  all  things  that  are 
reasonable  and  proper ;  and  that  the  said  David  de  Bon- 
repos and  Blanche  du  Bois  promise  also  and  bind  them- 
selves to  feed  her,  board  her,  and  educate  her  in  the  fear 
of  the  Lord,  and  to  furnish  her  with  whatever  shall  be 
necessary,  having  regard  to  her  habits  and  manner  of  bring- 
ing up,  during  the  space  of  three  years,  and  above  all,  to 
teach  her  the  trade  of  dress  making,  and  at  the  end  of  the 
said  three  years,  to  give  to  her  the  same  number  of  clothes, 
both  dresses  and  underclothes,  as  she  will  bring  with  her 
on  entering  the  house  of  the  said  David  de  Bonrepos  or 
Blanche  du  Bois,  and  to  teach  her  to  read  and  write,  in  so 


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far  as  it  shall  be  possible  for  them  (to  do  so)  ;  in  token  of 
which  they  have  signed  and  sealed  these  presents  in  the 
presence  of  witnesses. 

Sara  frere  (Seal) 
hugues  H  frere  (Seal) 

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de  Bonrepos  (Seal) 
Abraham  hasbrouc 
louys  bayvier. 

The  First  Sales  of  Land 

One  of  the  first  sales  of  land  of  which  we  have  any  record 
was  by  Anthony  Crispell  to  Louis  Bevier  of  a  lot  in  New 
Paltz,  in  1699. 

Crispell,  it  must  be  remembered,  never  moved  to  "New 
Paltz,  but  continued  to  reside  in  Hurley.  The  following  is 
the  record  in  French  in  the  county  clerk's  ofifice  at  Kingston : 

Fut  present  en  sa  personne  Anthoine  Crespel  Laboureur 
demeurant  a  Horly  Countes  de  Ulster  Cognois  et  Confesse 
avoir  vendue  Cedes  et  Quettes  Transportes  et  par  Ces 
presentes  vendet  de  Laisse  et  Transport  a  Louis  Beviere 
Laboreur  dem.  au  nouveau  palle  une  certaine  terre  dans  un 
Crouspelbose  Joignant  Le  village  du  dit  palle  faisant  une 
part  de  douze  part  suiuant  quil  a  estes  partages  par  Les 
proprietaire  du  dit  palle  La  ditc  part  Joignant  d'une  Le- 
ziere  a  la  Pasture  Abraham  du  Bois  et  dautre  Leziere 
a  Louis  Beviere  dun  bout  du  Costes  du  mydy  sure  La 
Wasmater  Land  Et  loutre  bout  du  Costes  du  Nort 
Joignant  Les  heritier  de  Simon  Leffebre.  Et  moy  Le  dit 
Crespel  promes  faire  Jouir  et  garantir  at  dujours  et  a  per- 
petuites  Sans  trouble  et  aupechaneus  Le  dit  Beviers  luy  et 
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34  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

ses  heritier  et  La  dite  Vente  faite  moyennaunt  La  somme  de 
Cens  quarante  squipe  de  bles  que  moy  Le  dit  Crespel  ay 
Receu  Content  et  tunt  quitte  Le  dit  Beviers  et  tous  Autres 
en  ffoy  de  quoy. 

Jaye  signes  fait  a  quinstoune  ce  dixi  ane  Jour  de  Avril 
six  Cent  nonante  neuff.  Antoin  Crespel. 

Jean  Cottin. 

Jaque  Du  boois. 

Tes  moins. 

The  following  is  a  translation  : 

Personally  appeared  Anthony  Crespel  a  laborer  living  at 
Hurly  County  of  Ulster  who  declares  and  confesses  to  have 
sold,  ceded,  released,  conveyed,  and  by  these  presents  sells, 
releases  and  conveys  to  Louis  Bevier,  laborer  living  at  New 
Palle,  a  certain  piece  of  land  in  a  thicket  adjoining  the  said 
village  of  Palle  making  one  of  the  twelve  parts  according 
to  the  partition  by  the  proprietors  of  said  Palle.  This  said 
part  is  bounded  by  the  pasture  of  Abraham  DuBois  and  by 
Louis  BeVier  on  one  side  at  the  south  it  bounds  on  the 
Washmaker's  land  and  on  the  other  side  at  the  north  on 
the  heirs  of  Simon  Leffebre.  And  I,  the  said  Crespel, 
promise  to  have  the  said  Bevier  enjoy  and  hold  thereof 
without  trouble  and  hindrance ;  and  said  sale  has  been 
made  upon  payment  of  the  sum  of  140  schepels  of  wheat 
which  I  the  said  Crespel  have  received  to  my  satisfaction 
and  absolve  thereof  the  said  Bevier  and  all  others. 

In  testimony  whereof  I  have  signed  this. 

Done  at  Quinstoun  this  10  day  of  April,  1699. 

'     Antoine  Crespel. 
Jean  Cottin. 

Jaque  DuBoois. 

Witnesses. 


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36  HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z 

Another  sale  of  land  at  a  still  earlier  date  was  from  An- 
thony Crispel,  the  Patentee,  to  Hugo  Freer,  son  of  the 
Patentee,  of  a  pasture  at  New  Paltz.  The  original  deed  in 
French  is  among  the  papers  of  the  Freer  Collection, 

A  translation  is  as  follows : 

I,  the  undersigned,  Anthoine  Crispel,  laborer,  dwelling  at 
Harley  (Hurley),  acknowledge  that  I  have  sold,  conveyed, 
transferred  and  delivered  to  Hugue  Frere  Junior,  dwelling 
at  the  Paltz,  a  pasture,  with  all  my  pretentions  thereto,  as 
it  lies  and  extends,  situated  in  the  tract  of  the  Paltz,  adjoin- 
ing the  pastures  of  the  late  Simon  le  Febvre,  and  in  con- 
sideration of  fifty  bushels  of  wheat  *  *  (Ms.  effaced) 
as  follows :  Twenty-five  bushels  of  wheat  and  twenty-five 
bushels  of  flax,  at  the  current  price,  to  be  paid  in  four  con- 
secutive years,  as  follows :  twelve  and  a  half  bushels  each 
year;  and  I  promise  to  assure  and  guaranteee  the  said 
Hugue  Frere,  Junior,  him  and  his,  forever  and  in  perpetuity 
(in  his  possession).  Done  at  the  Paltz,  the  eleventh  of 
September,  one  thousand  six  hundred  and  ninety  three, 
anthoine  crespel. 

(  mark  H  de  Hugue  Frere  ) 

louys  bayver,  Jean  Cottin, 

witness.  witness. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  37 


CHAPTER  III 

The  French  Records  of  the  New  Paltz  Church 

The  French  records  of  the  church  are  in  a  small  book 
containing  seventeen  pages,  about  6x8  inches,  which  has 
always  been  in  the  care  of  the  pastor  of  the  church.  The 
paper  is  of  coarse  quality  and  somewhat  yellow  with  age, 
but  the  writing  is  perfectly  legible.  The  following  trans- 
lation of  these  records  was  made  by  the  late  Wm.  E.  Du- 
Bois,  of  Philadelphia,  in  1846: 

January  22,  1683.  ^^^-  Pierre  Daillie,  minister  of  the 
Word  of  God,  arrived  at  Paltz,  and  preached  twice  the  Sun- 
day following,  and  proposed  to  the  heads  of  the  families  to 
choose  by  a  majority  of  the  votes  of  the  fathers  of  the  fam- 
ilies an  Elder  and  a  Deacon,  which  they  did,  and  chose 
Louis  DuBois  for  Elder  and  Hugh  Frere  for  Deacon  to  aid 
the  minister  in  the  management  of  the  members  of  the 
church,  meeting  at  Paltz,  who  were  then  confirmed  to  the 
said  charge  of  Elder  and  Deacon.  The  present  minute  has 
been  made  to  put  in  order  the  things  which  appertain  to 
said  church. 

October  14,  1683.     Baptised  two  children  of  Pierre  Doyau 

and  [one]  named  Peter^  the  other  Mary.     Abraham 

Rutan,  Godfather,  and  Mary  Petilon,  Godmother,  to  the 
first,  of  the  other  Abraham  DuBois,  Godfather,  and  Mar- 
garet Doioie  (Doyau),  Godmother. 

October  21,  1683.  Baptised  a  child  of  Simon  LeFevre 
and  Elizabeth  Doioie,  named  Isaac.  Isaac  DuBois  God- 
father, and  Marie  Hasbrouck,  Godmother. 


38  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

April  28,  1684.  Baptised  a  child  of  Isaac  DuBois  and 
Marie  Hasbrouck,  named  Daniel.  Godfather,  Louis  Du- 
Bois, and  Catharine  Blancon,  Godmother. 

September  23,  1684.  Baptised  a  child  of  Abraham  Ruton 
[Rutemps]  and  Marie  Petilon,  named  Daniel.  Godfather, 
Louys  DuBois,  Catherine  Blancon  [Blanjean],  Godmother. 

October  23,  1684.  Baptised  a  child  of  Abram  Hasbrouck 
and  Marie  Doioie,  named  Joseph.  Godfather,  Jacob  Du- 
Bois, Marie  Doioie,  Godmother. 

April  4,  1685.  Baptised  a  child  of  John  Hasbrouck  and 
Anne  Doioie,  named  Elizabeth.  Godfather,  Pierre  Doioie, 
and  Elizabeth  Doioie,  Godmother. 

April  6,  1685.  Baptised  a  child  of  Louis  Bevier  and 
Mary  Leblanc,  named  Louis.  Abm.  Hasbrouck,  Godfather, 
and  Mary  Doioie,  Godmother. 

April  17,  1685.  Baptised  a  child  of  Abraham  DuBois 
and  Margaret  Doioie.  named  Abraham.  Louis  DuBois, 
Godfather,  and  Catharine  Blancon,  Godmother. 

October  28,  1685.  Baptised  a  child  of  Simon  LeFevre 
and  Elizabeth  Doioie,  named  John.  Pierre  Doioie,  God- 
father, and  Mary  Doioie,  Godmother. 

March  20,  1685-6.  Baptised  a  child  of  Abm.  Ruton 
[Rutemps],  named  Paul.  Hugh  Frere,  Godfather,  Hagar 
Meckel,  Godmother. 

The  year  one  thousand,  1686,  the  17th  of  October,  was 
baptised  a  child  of  Abm.  Hasbrouck  and  Mary  Doyo,  a  son. 
His  name  is  Solomon.  The  Godfather,  Louis  Bayvier,  the 
Godmother,  La-Toynelle. 

April  15,  1688.  John  Hasbrouck  and  Anne  Doyo  have 
baptised  a  child  named  Jacob.  Godfather,  Louis  Bayvier, 
Godmother,  Mary  Leblanc. 

April    19,    1688.     Abram    Ruton    and   Mary   Petilon   had 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  39 

baptised    a   child    named    David.     Godfather,    Peter    Doyo 
Godmother,  Jane  Vilar. 

April  16,  1689.  Peter  Doyo  and  Agatha  had  a  daughter 
baptised  named  Madaline.  Godfather^  John  Hasbrouck, 
Godmother,  Margaret  Doyo. 

April  16,  1689.  Louis  Bevier  and  Mary  Leblanc  had  a 
daughter  baptised  named  Esther.  Godfather,  John  Has- 
brouck, Godmother,  Esther  Latoinelle. 

April  16,  1689.  Isaac  DuBois  and  Mary  Hasbrouck  had 
a  son  baptised  named  Benjamin.  Abram  DuBois,  God- 
father, and  Anne  Doyo,  Godmother. 

October  13,  1689.  Louis  Bevier  had  a  son  baptised  named 
Solomon.  Godfather,  Isaac  DuBois,  Godmother,  Anne  Doyo. 

October  13,  1689.  Abraham  DuBois  and  Margaret  Doyo 
had  a  daughter  baptised  named  Rachel.  Godfather,  Abm. 
Hasbrouck,  Godmother,  Mary  Doyo. 

October  13,  1689.  Elizabeth  Doyo  had  a  daughter  bap- 
tised named  Mary.  Godfather,  Hugh  Frere,  Godmother, 
Anne  Hasbrouck. 

October  16,  1689.  Abraham  DuBois  and  Margaret  Doyo 
had  a  daughter  baptised  named  Leah.  Godfather,  Solo- 
mon DuBois,  Godmother,  Mary  Leblanc. 

May  14,  1690.  Isaac  DuBois  and  Mary  Hasbrouck,  his 
wife  had  a  son  baptised,  who  was  named  Philip.  John  Has- 
brouck. Godfather,  and  Esther  Hasbrouck,  Godmother. 

May  14,  1690.  Abram  Rutemps  and  Mary  Petilon  had  a 
daughter  baptised  named  Esther.  Abm.  Hasbrouck,  God- 
father, and  Esther  Hasbrouck,  Godmother. 

June  7,  1690.  Hugh  Frere,  son  of  Hugh  Frere,  his  father, 
and  Mary  Haye,  his  mother,  was  married  by  Mr.  Daillie 
to  Mary  Leroy. 

June  9,  1690.     The  gentlemen  of  the  consistory  of  Paltz 


40  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

have  placed  in  my  hands  two  sealed  bags,  saying  that  in 
one  there  is  a  hundred  and  forty  francs  in  zewannes  [wam- 
pum] and  in  good  silver,  in  the  other  they  say  there  is  four 
hundred  francs,  zewannes,  in  good  silver. 

Abraham  Hasbrouck,  Witness. 

mark  of  (x)  Hugh  Frere,  Elder. 

Louis  Bevier,  Witness. 

June  28,  1690.     Isaac  DuBois  died  at  his  home  in  Paltz. 

August  3,  1690.  A  daughter  of  Abram  Rutemp  died, 
aged  about  6  months. 

August  9,  1690.  Isaac  Frere,  son  of  Hugh  Frere,  died, 
aged  about  18  years. 

October  12,  1690.  Mr.  Dallie  baptised  a  male  child  of 
Pierre  Doyeau.  John  Cottin,  Godfather,  Esther  Has- 
broucq,  Godmother.     His  name  is  Henry. 

October  14,  1691.  Abraham  Hasbrouck  and  Mary  Do- 
yeau, his  wife,  had  a  boy  baptised,  called  Jonas.  Abram 
Hasbrouck  (son  of  John  Hasbrouck).  Godfather,  Anne  Has- 
brouck, Godmother. 

October  17,  1691.  Hugh  Frere,  Jr.,  and  Mary  Leroy, 
his  wife,  had  a  boy  baptised  named  Hugh.  Abram  Frere, 
Godfather,  Mary  Frere,  Godmother. 

October  24,  1691.  Abram  Rutemp  and  Mary  Petilon,  his 
wife,  had  a  boy  baptised  called  Peter.  Godfather,  Peter 
Guimar,  Godmother,  Esther  Hasbrouck. 

April  18.  1692.  Mr.  Dallie  married  Peter  Guimar,  a 
native  of  Moir,  in  Saintonge,  son  of  Peter  Guimar,  and  Anne 
Damour  (his  father  and  mother),  and  Esther  Hasbroucic, 
native  of  the  Palatinate,  in  Germany,  daughter  of  John 
Hasbrouck  and  Anne  Doyeau   (her  father  and  mother). 

May  21,  1693.     Abram  DuBois  and  Mary  Deyo,  his  wife. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  41 

had  a  daughter  baptised  named  Catharine.  Louis  DuBois, 
Jr.,  Godfather,  Trinque  (Tryntje),  wife  of  Solomon  DuBois, 
Godmother. 

May  21,  1693.  Hugh  Frere  and  Mary  Ann  Leroy,  his 
Avife,  had  a  son  baptised  named  Isaac.  Dennis  Reille,  God- 
father, and  Hagnette,  Godmother. 

May  21,   1693.     Moses  Quantin  and  EHzabeth  Deyo,  his 

wife,   had   a   son  baptised   named  .      Peter   Guimar, 

Godfather,  Rachel  Hasbrouck,  Godmother. 

April  28,  1694.  Abram  Frere  married  to  Haignies 
Titesorte, 

May  5,  1694.     Anne  Doyo  died  in  the  Lord,  aged  50  years. 

December  8,  1695.  The  wife  of  Hugh  Frere  died  in  the 
Lord. 

May  31,  1696.  Mr.  Bonrepos  baptised  a  daughter  of 
Hugh  Frere  and  Mary  Leroy  (her  father  and  mother), 
having  come  into  the  world  the  5th  of  May,  1696.  Her 
name  is  Mary.  Abram  Hasbrouck,  Jr.,  Godfather,  Rachel 
Hasbrouck,  Godmother. 

May  31,  1696.  Mr.  Bonrepos  baptised  a  daughter  of 
Abram  Frere  and  Haiquiez  Titesorte  (her  father  and 
mother),  [she]  came  into  the  world  the  15th  day  of  May, 
1696,  her  name  is  Nelleties.  Louis  DuBois,  Godfather,  and 
Elizabeth  Titesort,  Godmother. 

May  31,  1696.  Mr.  Bonrepos  baptised  a  son  of  Abram 
Hasbrouck  and  Mary  Doyo  (his  father  and  mother),  his 
name  is  Benjamin.  Abraham  Doyo,  Godfather,  Mary  Frere, 
Godmother. 

October  23,  1698.  Richard  Viltfil  and  Madelin  Chut 
have  caused  to  be  baptised  a  child,  his  name  is  (?).  Louye 
Bayvier,  Godfather,  Marian  [Bayvier?],  Godmother. 

October   23,    1698.     Abraham    Frere    [and]    Achsah,    his 


42  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

wife  had  a  child  baptised,  his  name  is  Solomon.  Moses 
Quantin,   Godfather,   Rachel   Hasbrouck,   Godmother. 

July  2,  1699.  Jacob  Clarwater  and  Mary,  his  wife,  had  a 
child  baptised,  his  name  is  Abraham.  Godfathers,  Abram 
Hasbrouck,  Solomon  DuBois;    Godmother,  Mary  Doyo. 

July  3,  1699.  John  Bevier,  Abm.  Bevier,  Isaac  Has- 
brouck, Christian  Doyo,  Jacob  Frere,  Rachel  Hasbrouck,. 
Sarah  DuBois  were  received  at  the  table  of  the  Lord  in  the 
congregation  of  the  Paltz  by  Mr.  Bonrepos,  minister  of  the 
Word  of  God. 

October  22,  1699.  Louis  DuBois  [Jr.],  was  received  at 
the  table  of  the  Lord  in  the  congregation  of  Paltz  by  Mr. 
Bonrepos,  minister  of  the  Word  of  God. 

October  15,  1699.  Mr.  Bonrepos  baptised  a  daughter  of 
Hugh  Frere  and  Mary  Anne  Leroy,  her  name  is  Esther. 
Godfather,  John  Tebenin,  Godmother,  Achsah  (?)  Titesorte. 

May  19,  1700.  Richard  Viltfil  and  Madaline  Chut,  his 
wife,  had  baptised  a  son,  his  name  is  Daniel.  Hugh  Frere 
is  Godfather  and  Marianne  Leroy,  Godmother,  by  Mons. 
Bonrepos,  minister  of  the  Word  of  God. 

Isaac  DuBois,  son  of  Louys  DuBois  and  Catharine  Blan- 
con  [Blanjeah  on  Kingston  record],  was  married  by  the 
minister,  after  three  announcements  on  three  Sundays  pre- 
vious, to  Marie  Hasbrouck,  daughter  to  John  Hasbrouck 
and  Anne  Doyoie. 

June  19,  1700.  Andrew  LeFevre  and  Samuel  Bevier  were 
received  at  the  table  of  the  Lord  in  the  congregation  of  the 
Paltz,  by  Mr.  Bonrepos,  minister  of  the  Word  of  God. 

June  19,  1701.  Louis  Bevier  (Jr.)  married  to  Rachel 
Hasbrouck. 

February  20,  1702.  Christian  Doyo  and  Mary  Leconte 
were  married  in  this  town  of  Paltz. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  43 

Daniel   DuBois  has  paid   5   francs  and    10  too  much. 

John    LeFevre   owes   3   francs.     Henry   Doyo   has   paid  22 

francs  and  15  too  much.     Louis  DuBois  has  paid  88 

francs  and  5  too  much.     Hugh  Frere  3  francs,  5  

too   much.      Joseph   has   paid   3   francs.   5   too   much. 

Abram  Doyo  has  paid  5  francs,  15 too  much. 

Recapitulation  by  translator  of  names  of  French  Families, 
or  Surnames  of  the  record  in  their  order: 

DuBois,  Rutamps  (or  Ruton),  Frere,  Daillie  (Rev.),  Vilt- 
fil.  Chut  (  ?),  Bevier,  Quantin,  Hasbroucq,  Clarwater,  Doyau, 
Leroy,  Bonrepos  (Rev.),  Meckel,  Petilon,  LeFevre,  Blancon 
(Blanjean),  Leblance,  Lationelle,  Vilar,  Guimar.  Haye,  Cot- 
tin,  Reille,  Titesorte,  Leconte,  Tebenin. 

The  record  extends  from  1683  to  1702.  There  is  a  single 
entry  in  Dutch,  dated  1718. 

There  appears  at  least  eight  different  handwritings  in  the 
record.  Also  the  autographs  of  Abram  Hasbrouck  and 
Louis  Bevier.  The  latest  entry  in  the  handwriting  of  Louis 
DuBois  is  dated  March,  1686.  The  last  notice  of  Rev.  Mr. 
Daillie  is  April,  1692.  The  first  of  Rev.  Mr.  Bonrepos, 
May,  1696. 


44  .HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

CHAPTER   IV 

The  Blending  of  French  and  Dutch  at  New  Paltz 

The  question  is  occasionally  raised  as  to  when  the  first 
marriages  took  place  between  the  French  settlers  at  New 
Paltz  and  the  Dutch. 

There  has  been  a  wide-spread  but  very  erroneous  im- 
pression that  matrimonial  alliances  between  the  Huguenots, 
who  came  to  New  Paltz,  and  the  Dutch  took  place  at  a  very 
early  date  and  even  before  crossing  the  Atlantic. 

A  careful  examination  of  the  records  shows  that  none  of 
the  Patentees  and  not  many  of  their  children  intermarried 
with  the  Dutch.  A  considerable  proportion  of  the  children 
and  grandchildren  of  the  Patentees  married  people  of  French 
descent,  not  residing  at  New  Paltz.  Among  these  appear 
the  names,  Gumaer,  LeConte,  Blanshan,  Vernooy,  Mon- 
tanye,  Le  Roy,  Cantine  and  Ferree. 

Solomon  DuBois,  of  Poughwoughtononk,  son  of  Louis 
the  Patentee,  was  the  first  New  Paltz  man  to  make  the  ex- 
periment of  selecting  a  wife  outside  the  Huguenot  fold. 
In  1691  Solomon  and  his  wife  Tryntje  Gerritsen,  whose 
name  bespeaks  her  Dutch  origin,  had  a  son,  Isaac,  presented 
for  baptism. 

The  first  young  man  of  Dutch  origin  to  marry  a  New 
Paltz  woman  and  locate  within  the  bounds  of  the  Patent 
was  Jacob  Clearwater,  whose  residence  was  at  Bontecoe. 
In  1699  he  and  his  wife,  Mary  Deyo,  had  a  son,  Abraham, 
presented  for  baptism.  But  Jacob  Clearwater  did  not  leave 
descendants  permanently  residing  at  New  Paltz. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  45 

,  There  were  a  few  and  only  a  few  other  marriages  between 
the  Dutch  and  those  of  the  children  of  the  Patentees  who 
located  at  New  Paltz,  as  follows :  Abraham  Deyo  married 
Elsie  Clearwater  in  1702;  Roelif  Eltinge  married  Sarah 
DuBois  in  1703  ;  Jacob  Freer  married  Altje  Van  Weyen  in 
1705;  Joseph  Hasbrouck  married  EUsje  Schoonmaker  in 
1706;  Hendricus  Deyo  married  Margaret  Van  Bummell  in 
1715;  Solomon  Hasbrouck  married  Sarah  Van  Wagenen 
in  1721.  Other  children  of  the  Patentees,  who  settled  out- 
side of  New  Paltz,  intermarried  with  the  Dutch  to  a  greater 
extent. 

In  the  third  generation  there  were  quite  a  number  of  in- 
termarriages with  the  Dutch,  in  certain  families,  but  fewer, 
we  think,  than  are  generally  supposed.  In  the  LeFevre 
family,  out  of  twenty-one  grandchildren  of  Simon  LeFevre, 
the  Patentee,  who  grew  to  maturity  and  married,  not  one 
selected  a  partner  of  the  Holland  race.  One  married  Col. 
Johannes  Hardenbergh,  Jr.,  who  was  of  German  origin,  and 
one  married  Jacob  Hoffman,  who  was  of  Swedish  ancestry. 
All  the  rest  united  with  people  bearing  French  names. 

Elias  Ean,  whose  nationality  is  not  known,  was  the  first 
man,  not  the  son  of  a  Patentee,  to  settle  at  New  Paltz  and 
remain  there  permanently.  He  married  Elizabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  Anthony  Crispell,  the  Patentee,  and  located  about 
four  miles  north  of  the  village  on  a  farm,  that  has  come  down 
in  the  family  until  the  present  day.  Elias  Fan's  name  ap- 
pears on  the  tax  list  of  1712,  and  when  the  first  stone  church 
was  erected  in  1718,  just  forty  years  after  the  settlement, 
Elias  Un  (in  Dutch  Fan)  was  the  only  person,  beside  the 
Patentees  and  their  children,  who  assisted  in  the  work. 

The  first  man  who  was  certainly  of  Dutch  origin  to  locate 
here  permanently  was  Roeliff  Eltinge,  who  married  Sarah, 


46  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

daughter  of  Abraham  DuBois  the  Patentee  in  1703.  It  was 
not,  however,  until  about  a  score  of  years  later  that  he 
moved  from  Kingston,  where  he  held  the  office  of  justice 
of  the  peace,  and  located  at  New  Paltz.  His  family  was 
the  first  that  was  certainly  of  Dutch  origin  to  take  root  at 
New  Paltz  and  flourish  here. 

The  Low  family,  which  was  of  Dutch  descent,  had  a  num- 
ber of  representatives  at  New  Paltz  for  a  long  period,  both 
before  and  after  the  Revolutionary  war,  but  finally  all  died 
out  or  moved  away. 

Next  to  the  Eltings,  the  Van  Wagenens  were  the  most 
prominent  among  the  Dutch  to  settle  and  remain  perma- 
nently at  New  Paltz.  But  the  Van  Wagenens  did  not  come 
until  a  much  later  date  than  the  Eltings,  the  name  of  Petrus 
Van  Wagenen,  the  progenitor  of  the  family  at  New  Paltz, 
not  appearing  on  the  church  book  here  until  1766. 

Although  the  French  and  Dutch  at  New  Paltz  no  doubt 
harmonized,  yet  the  line  of  demarcation  is  plainly  seen  in 
the  strife  between  the  C(etus  and  Conferentia  parties,  which 
for  a  time  split  the  Dutch  church  in  America  into  two 
hostile  factions.  The  Conferentie  party,  which  claimed  that 
each  dominie  must  be  ordained  by  the  home  church  in  Hol- 
land, seceded  from  the  New  Paltz  church  and  in  1766  erected 
a  church  building  near  Mr.  W.  H.  D.  Blake's  present  resi- 
dence, about  two  miles  from  our  village.  This  church  was 
called  by  the  old  people  "the  owl  church,"  probably  because 
the  woods  near  by  was  a  favorite  haunt  for  owls.  In  the 
list  of  persons  who  built  the  Conferentie  church  appear  the 
names  of  four  Eltings,  three  Lows,  Petrus  Van  Wagenen 
and  Abraham  Ean.  The  names  of  a  small  portion  of  the 
DuBois  family,  but  no  other  names  of  French  origin,  appear 
in  the  list  of  those  who  built  the  Conferentie  church. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  47 

When  the  second  stone  church  was  built  in  our  village 
in  1772,  the  Dutch  element,  which  had  seceded  and  built 
the  Conferentie  church,  rendered  no  aid.  About  ten  years 
afterwards  peace  came,  and  in  1783  the  Conferentie  church 
organization  was,  as  stated  in  the  church  book,  "in  the  fear 
of  God,  in  love  and  mutual  friendship  united  with  the  old 
congregation  of  the  New  Paltz." 

Thenceforward  there  was  peace  and  harmony  in  the 
church,  and  the  New  Paltz  people  who  bore  names  of  Hol- 
land origin  have  been  certainly  quite  as  faithful  in  support 
of  the  church  as  those  bearing  Huguenot  names. 

In  the  blending  of  races,  which  took  place  at  New  Paltz 
as  well  as  elsewhere  in  New  York,  there  were  other  ele- 
ments beside  the  French  and  the  Dutch.  The  PJrodheads 
were  English  ;  the  Auchmoodys,  Scotch  ;  the  Hardenberghs, 
German ;  the  Ronks  and  Terpenings  from  Flanders ;  the 
Bruyns,  Norwegian.  The  ancestors  of  the  Wurts  and 
Goetcheous  families  were  Swiss.  By  the  mixture  of  these 
various  nationalities  the  people  of  New  Paltz  had  become  a 
composite  race  at  the  beginning  of  the  last  century. 

In  this  mixture  of  races  there  was  little  infusion  of  Eng- 
lish blood  until  the  Quaker  settlement  at  Butterville,  about 
1810.  The  New  Englanders  swarmed  into  what  is  now 
Orange  county,  a  portion  coming  by  way  of  Long  Island ; 
but  on  the  lower  Wallkill  they  found  the  ground  occupied 
and  did  not  enter. 

The  Dutch  language  was  not  abandoned  at  New  Paltz 
because  of  an  influx  of  English-speaking  people.  Neither, 
may  we  say,  had  the  French  tongue  been  previously  aban- 
doned because  the  Dutch  element  had  come  into  the  town 
in  large  numbers.  No  doubt  the  influence  of  church  and 
school   and  of  surrounding  communities   brought   about   a 


48  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

change  in  the  language.  The  father  of  the  writer  has  told 
him  that  he  did  not  learn  to  speak  English  till  he  went  to 
school.  This  was  not  an  exceptional  case.  No  doubt  there 
were  many  in  this  community  who  knew  no  tongue  but  the 
Dutch  until  they  went  to  that  famous  Irish  schoolmaster, 
Gilbert  Cuthbert  Rice,  who  from  about  1815  to  about  1825 
taught  the  young  ideas  how  to  shoot  in  different  communi- 
ties in  the  vicinity  of  New  Paltz.  Quite  probably  the  grand- 
parents of  some  of  the  children  who  thus  learned  to  talk 
English  had  themselves  known  no  tongue  but  the  French 
until  they  went  to  school,  and  there  from  a  Dutch-speaking 
schoolmaster  and  Dutch-speaking  children  learned  to  use 
that  language. 

A  story  that  has  come  down  to  us  from  the  old  people  re- 
lates that  when  the  three  brothers,  sons  of  Isaac  LeFevre, 
were  living  in  the  three  stone  houses  on  the  banks  of  the 
Wallkill  at  Bontecoe,  a  child  sent  from  one  of  the  houses 
to  another  to  borrow  some  article  asked  for  it  in  Dutch  and 
was  indignantly  told  to  go  back  home  and  learn  to  ask  for 
it  in  French.  This  was  about  1760,  and  the  story  shows 
that  even  where  the  children  were  of  pure  French  blood,  as 
was  the  case  at  that  time  with  the  Bontecoe  LeFevres,  they 
had  somehow  learned  to  speak  in  Dutch,  but  received  a. 
stern  rebuke  for  using  that  tongue. 


HISTO'RY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  49 

CHAPTER   V 

Collections  of  Old  Papers 

From  time  to  time,  since  the  matter  of  the  local  history 
of  New  Paltz  has  attracted  attention,  various  collections  of 
old  papers  and  documents  have  been  brought  to  light. 
Valuable  collections  of  ancient  documents  are  owned  in  the 
families  of  the  late  Messrs.  Edmund  Eltinge  and  Samuel 
B.  Stilwell. 

The  largest  and  most  valuable  assortment  of  old  papers 
was  that  in  the  possession  of  Mrs.  Theodore  Deyo.  This 
contained  not  only  papers  relating  to  the  Deyo  family,  but 
many  others.  It  is  stated  that  when  the  British  burned 
Kingston,  in  the  time  of  the  Revolution,  is  was  supposed 
that  they  would  march  up  the  Wallkill  and  burn  New  Paltz, 
likewise.  It  must  be  remembered  that  in  colonial  days  the 
practice  of  having  valuable  papers  recorded  in  the  county 
clerk's  office  was  not  as  general  as  it  now  is.  In  order  to 
have  their  papers  in  a  safe  place,  the  New  Paltz  people 
brought  them  to  the  residence  of  Captain  Abram  Deyo, 
whose  house  is  now  owned  and  occupied  by  his  great-great- 
grandson,  Abm.  Deyo  Brodhead.  Here  they  were  placed  in 
a  large  chest  and  buried  in  the  cellar.  After  the  fright  was 
over,  and  the  British  had  returned  to  New  York,  some  of 
the  papers  were  not  reclaimed  by  their  owners.  The  chest 
containing  the  papers  was  taken  from  the  residence  of  Capt. 
Abm.  Deyo  to  that  of  his  brother,  Philip  Deyo,  on  the  Paltz 
Plains,  and  remained  there  during  his  life  time  and  that  of 
his  son,  Andries,  and  also  while  Theodore  Deyo,  who  was 
4 


50  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

the  son  of  Andries,  kept  the  old  homestead.  When  he 
moved  it  was  taken  to  the  new  residence  of  the  family, 
where  it  remained. 

One  of  the  most  valuable  collections  of  ancient  documents 
is  that  which  has  come  down  in  the  family  of  Isaac  DuBois, 
the  Patentee.     Among  the  papers  are  the  following : 

A  quit  claim  from  Mary,  widow  of  Isaac  DuBois,  the 
Patentee,  to  her  son,  Daniel,  for  her  interest  in  the  real 
estate  of  her  husband.     This  is  dated  1718. 

A  release  from  Andre,  Isaac  and  Jean,  sons  of  Simon 
LeFevre  the  Patentee,  to  their  sister  Mary,  wife  of  Daniel 
DuBois,  for  their  share  in  certain  lots  of  land  lying  in  and 
near  the  village.     This  is  dated  1713. 

A  will  in  French  of  Daniel  DuBois,  dated  1729.  The 
handwriting  is  plain,  and  each  letter  distinct  from  beginning 
to  end  of  the  document.  The  first  page  is  nearly  taken  up 
with  a  complete  and  extended  declaration  of  faith  in  the 
Christian  religion,  which  is  in  striking  contrast  with  the 
plain  businesslike  form  of  the  wills  of  the  present  day. 

A  paper  which  is  in  Dutch  is  dated  1741  and  contains  the 
signatures  of  Daniel  DuBois,  Isaac  LeFevre,  Simon  Le- 
Fevre and  Matthew  LeFevre. 

Another  valuable  paper  is  dated  1742  and  is  a  bond  given 
by  Jean  LeFevre  to  Garret  Kateltas,  when  the  former  pur- 
chased of  the  latter  the  land  in  Kettleborough  on  which 
Jean's  sons,  Abraham  and  Andries,  settled. 

A  large  collection  of  ancient  documents  has  come  down 
in  the  Freer  family,  many  of  them  dating  back  to  the  time 
of  Hugo  Freer,  senior,  son  of  Hugo  the  Patentee. 

Some  of  the  most  ancient  of  these  papers  have  been 
framed  in  glass  and  placed  in  the  Memorial  House ;  others 
have  been  placed  in  a  small  trunk,  in  which  a  portion  of 


HISTO'RY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  51 

them  had  been  previously  kept.  This  little  trunk  is  about 
six  inches  long  and  four  inches  wide.  It  bears  the  initials 
H.  F.  and  has  a  blacksmith-made  handle.  There  are  among 
these  ancient  papers  about  thirty  in  the  French  language 
and  a  few  in  Dutch  and  English.  A  considerable  portion 
are  fully  200  years  old.  They  include  letters,  wills,  receipts, 
deeds  and  warrants. 

One  of  the  most  valuable  papers  is  a  copy  of  a  deed  of 
gift  in  1689  from  the  New  Paltz  people  to  their  schoolmaster, 
Jean  Cottin,  of  a  house  and  lot.  Among  the  other  papers  in 
the  little  trunk  are  the  following: 

A  deed  from  Jean  Cottin  to  Hugo  Freer  of^a  house  and 
lot  in  this  village,  probably  the  property  above  mentioned, 
dated  1701. 

Three  receipts  in  the  handwriting  and  containing  the  sig- 
nature of  Louis  DuBois  the  Patentee,  each  dated  in  1695, 
the  year  before  his  death. 

Two  receipts  in  the  handwriting  and  containing  the  sig- 
nature of  Abraham  DuBois  the  Patentee. 

Two  receipts  in  the  handwriting  and  containing  the  sig- 
nature of  Moses  Cantain,  the  ancestor  of  the  Cantine  family. 

A  paper  containing  the  signature  of  Peter  du  booys,  who 
was  a  nephew  of  Louis  DuBois  the  Patentee,  and  ancestor 
of  the  Dutchess  county  DuBoises. 

A  warrant,  in  English,  in  the  handwriting  and  with  the 
signature  of  Roelif  Eltinge,  ancestor  of  the  New  Paltz  El- 
tings,  who  was  at  the  time  of  writing,  1710,  still  residing  in 
Kingston  and  was  already  a  justice  of  the  peace. 

A  paper  in  the  handwriting  and  containing  the  signature 
3f  Solomon  DuBois,  son  of  Louis  the  Patentee. 

The  will  of  Hugo  Freer  the  Patentee. 

The  will,  in  Dutch,  of  his  son,  Hugo,  senior. 


52  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

A  deed  dated  1693  from  Anthony  Crispell  the  Patentee 
to  Hugo  Freer  for  a  lot  of  land  in  this  village,  probably  the 
first  sale  of  real  estate  at  New  Paltz,  the  pay  to  be  made 
partly  in  wheat  and  partly  in  flax  seed. 

Papers  with  the  signatures  of  Rev.  Pierre  Daillie  and 
Rev.  David  Bonrepos,  the  two  French  pastors  at  New  Paltz. 

Letters  of  friendship  and  business  addressed  to  Hugo 
Freer  from  New  York  and  Quebec. 

Bills  from  merchants  in  New  York,  showing  the  high 
prices  for  goods  in  ordinary  use  and  the  very  low  price  paid 
for  country  produce  in  those  old  days. 

An  order  for  grain  to  be  delivered  at  the  mill  of  Johannes 
DuBois  at  Greenkill,  in  the  present  town  of  Rosendale, 
dated  in  1701,  and  showing  that  there  was  a  mill  there  at 
that  early  date. 

Deeds  to  Hugo  Freer,  senior,  son  of  Hugo  the  Patentee, 
from  his  two  sisters,  who  married  and  located  at  Schenec- 
tady, and  from  his  brother  Jean,  who  located  at  Kingston, 
for  their  share  of  their  father's  estate. 

A  deed,  in  English,  from  Abraham  Freer  to  his  brother, 
Hugo,  senior,  for  his  two  sittings  in  the  first  stone  church. 

Papers  with  the  signatures  of  Louis  Bevier  the  Patentee 
and  Abraham  Hasbrouck  the  Patentee. 

A  tax  list  of  1712,  showing  that  at  that  time  the  Patentees 
and  their  children  constituted  almost  the  entire  taxpaying 
population  of  the  precinct.  Four  of  the  Patentees  were 
still  alive. 

The  oldest  paper  is  dated  1677 — the  year  of  the  Patent. 
It  does  not  seem  to  be  a  paper  of  much  importance. 

Many  of  these  documents  are  specially  useful  in  deter- 
mining the  original  orthography  of  the  names  of  the  early 
settlers  at  New  Paltz.     This  can  not  be  determined  from 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  53 

the  church  records,  because  the  minister  performing  the 
ceremony  evidently  recorded  each  name  as  he  thought  it 
ought  to  be  spelled,  without  asking  the  parent  of  the  child 
baptised  how  he  was  accustomed  to  spell  it. 

Among  the  more  modern  papers  in  this  collection  are  a 
mass  of  documents,  including  a  will  of  Jonas  Freer,  a  letter 
from  Aaron  Burr,  a  letter  from  Col.  Abraham  Hasbrouck, 
of  Kingston,  and  other  papers  of  interest  to  members  of  the 
Freer  family. 

Most  of  the  papers  have  not  been  fully  translated,  but 
have  been  examined  to  a  sufficient  extent  to  give  a  clear 
idea  of  their  contents. 

The  Patentees'  Trunk 

For  about  100  years,  commencing  with  1728,.  the  adminis- 
tration of  affairs,  in  this  town,  regarding  land  titles,  etc.,  was 
in  the  hands  of  a  board  of  twelve  men,  elected  annually,  who 
represented  the  original  twelve  patentees.  The  trunk,  con- 
taining records  that  remain,  was  for  a  great  number  of  years 
at  the  Huguenot  Bank,  in  this  village.  About  1850,  at  a  pub- 
lic meeting,  a  committee  was  appointed  to  examine  the  old 
trunk  and  report  what  documents  it  contained.  Some  of  the 
papers  are  in  French  and  others  in  Dutch,  but  the  majority  are 
in  English.  These  papers  have  since  been  placed  in  the  safe 
in  the  town  clerk's  office.  The  most  important  papers  in  the 
Patentees'  trunk  were  as  follows : 

1st.  A  copy  of  the  purchase  of  the  patent,  signed  by  the 
Indians  on  their  part,  and  by  Louis  DuBois  and  the  other 
patentees. 

2d.     The  confirmation  of  the  title  to  the  patentees  by  Ed- 


54  HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z 

mond  Andross,  Colonial  Governor  of  New  York,  given  Sep- 
tember 29,  1677. 

3d.  A  document  dated  February  13,  1682,  with  reference 
to  negotiation  concerning  the  purchase  of  land  to  the  south- 
ward as  far  as  the  "New  Indian  Fort."  This  was  situated  at 
Shawangunk. 

4th.  An  agreement  entered  into  April  21,  1728,  by  which 
the  institution  of  the  "Twelve  Men"  was  established  to  fix 
the  title  to  lands,  previously  divided,  and  to  distribute  the  re- 
mainder by  lot. 

5th.  Two  contracts,  one  dated  1744  and  the  other  1774,  en- 
tered into  by  the  owners  of  the  patent,  binding  themselves  to 
pay  all  assessments  by  the  "Twelve  Men"-  for  legal  expenses 
in  defending  the  claims  of  title  of  any  of  the  owners. 

6th.  An  Act  of  the  Legislature  confirming  unto  the  owners, 
the  partitions  of  land  made  by  the  "Twelve  Men."  This  is 
dated  in  1785  and  is  signed  by  Gen.  George  Clinton  as 
Governor. 


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CHAPTER  VI 

The  Spelling  of  Various  Family  Names 

The  question  is  sometimes  asked  as  to  what  is  the  original 
orthography  of  various  family  names  of  people  in  New 
Paltz  and  elsewhere  in  Ulster  covmty.  The  question  can 
not  be  answered  from  the  church  records,  but  in  some  cases 
can  be  decided  from  the  original  signatures  of  the  Patentees. 
The  earliest  records  in  the  Dutch  church  at  Kingston  and 
the  Huguenot  church  at  New  Paltz  show  different  ways 
of  spelling  the  same  name. 

Turning  to  the  translation  of  the  French  records  of  the 
New  Paltz  church  in  the  very  first  entry,  October  14,  1683, 
we  find  the  baptism  of  two  cHldren  of  Pierre  "Doyau." 
Their  godmother  was  their  father's  sister,  Margaret  "Doi- 
oie,"  wife  of  Abraham  DuBois.  Their  baptism  was  not  per- 
formed by  a  back  woodsman,  who  did  not  know  how  to  spell, 
but  by  Rev.  Pierre  Daillie,  a  learned  man,  who  before  he 
left  France  was  a  professor  in  the  university  of  Saumur. 
Yet  here  in  the  same  entry  he  spells  the  name  of  the  brother 
Doyau  and  of  the  sister  Doioie.  In  1686,  three  years  after 
this  first  record,  we  find  the  name  of  Anna,  another  sister 
of  the  same  family  and  wife  of  John  Hasbrouck,  spelled 
Doyo.  Here  are  three  different  methods  of  spelling  the 
family  name  now  written  almost  uniformly  Deyo. 

If  there  had  been  any  established  form  of  spelling  the 
name  the  ministers  would  undoubtedly  have  spelled  it 
that  way. 

In  the  treaty  with  tlie  Indians,  made  in   1677,   Pierre,  the 


56  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Patentee,  wrote  the  name  Doyo,  his  father,  Christian,  did 
not  write  his  name,  but  makes  his  mark  and  the  name  is 
written  deYoo. 

Another  yet  more  striking  instance  of  different  ways  of 
spelling  the  same  family  name  is  that  of  the  two  Hasbrouck 
brothers.  In  the  treaty  made  with  the  Indians  for  the  pur- 
chase of  the  patent,  Abraham  Hasbrouck  writes  his  name 
Hasbrocq,  and  his  brother,  Jean,  writes  the  name  Brocq, 
without  the  prefix  Has.  In  the  same  paper  we  find  that 
the  name  of  the  leader  of  the  band  of  Huguenots  is  spelled 
Lowies  DuBooys,  and  that  of  his  son,  Abraham,  is  spelled 
in  the  same  way;  the  name  of  the  LeFevre  brothers  is 
spelled  Lefebre,  and  Freer  is  spelled  as  at  the  present  day. 
In  the  agreement  among  the  owners  of  the  patent  in  172S 
we  find  the  three  sons  of  vSimon  LeFevre,  the  Patentee,  each 
spelling  the  name  LeFevre ;  two  of  the  Hasbroucks  wrote 
the  name  Hasbrocq,  while  another  had  the  present  spelling; 
the  DuBoises  and  Beviers  spelled  the  name  as  at  present; 
Freer  is  written  Freer,  while  the  three  signatures  of  Deyos 
are  all  spelled  differently — one  writing  Doio,  another  Doiau 
and  another  Doyo. 

Rev.  Randall  R.  Hoes  in  the  preface  to  the  translation  of 
the  records  of  the  Dutch  church  at  Kingston  speaks  thus 
of  the  orthography  of  the  various  family  names : 

"The  orthography  of  the  proper  names  in  these  Registers 
is  quite  in  keeping  with  a  practice  of  the  early  times  in 
which  they  were  written. — It  never  seems  to  have  occurred 
to  these  university-bred  Dutch  Domines  of  the  Kingston 
church  to  inquire  how  various  persons  presenting  them- 
selves for  marriage,  or  their  children  for  baptism,  spelled 
their  own  names,  but  these  names  having  been  pronounced 


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in  their  hearing,  they  recorded  them  phonetically,  according 
to  the  prompting  of  their  ears,  or  arbitrarily,  according  to 
the  dictates  of  their  fancy.  This  practice,  however,  in- 
volved no  unusual  inconsistency,  for  the  orthography  of 
the  Dutch  language,  even  in  Holland,  as  respects  both 
common  and  proper  names,  was  not  wholly  settled  until 
late  in  the  eighteenth  century.  Some  of  our  most  familiar 
family  names  of  to-day  are  recorded  on  these  pages  in  half  a 
dozen  or  more  different  ways,  and  in  many  instances  varia- 
tions in  spelling  occur  even  in  the  same  baptismal  or  marriage 
entry.  It  is  therefore  impossible  in  any  case  whatever  to  state, 
at  least  by  the  aid  of  these  Registers;  the  exact  original  or- 
thography, even  if  any  existed,  of  particular  family  names 
among  our  Dutch  settlers. — This  remark  applies,  moreover, 
to  all  of  the  early  civil  and  ecclesiastical  records  of  the  Dutch, 
whether  in  this  country  or  in  Holland,  and  to  a  large  extent 
also  to  those  written  in  English,  as  it  was  not  before  the  com- 
mencement of  the  present  century  that  any  marked  degree  of 
uniformity  was  observed  in  the  orthography  of  a  very  large 
number  of  proper  names. 

"The  variations  in  spelling  in  the  Kingston  Church  Registers 
are  even  more  involved  and  confusing  than  usual,  owing  to 
the  fact  that  Domines  Mancius,  Meyer,  and  Doll,  and  also 
Doniine  Cock,  of  East  Camp,  an  advisory  friend  of  the  King- 
ston church,  who  during  the  "Coetus"  and  "Conferentie"  diffi- 
culties, repeatedly  officiated  there  at  baptismal  and  marriage 
ceremonies,  were  not  Dutchmen,  but  Germans,  and  naturally 
displayed  German  tendencies  in  their  orthography." 


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CHAPTER  VII 

Moving  Out  and  Moving  In 

Isaac  LeFevre,  son  of  Simon  LeFevre,  the  Patentee,  Hen- 
drick  Deyo,  son  of  Pierre,  the  Patentee,  and  Jacob  Freer,  son 
of  Hugo  Freer,  the  Patentee,  located  about  1720  in  what  is  still 
known  as  Bontecoe,  about  four  miles  north  of  this  village,  the 
last  named  nearly  on  the  north  bounds  of  the  patent,  and  their 
descendants  have  continued  to  the  present  day  to  occupy,  in 
great  part,  the  land  settled  on  at  this  time  by  their  ancestors. 
The  name  Bontecoe  was,  perhaps,  bestowed  in  remembrance 
of  the  Dutch  vessel  Bontecoe,  called  in  contemporaneous  Eng- 
lish history  "Spotted  Cow,"  which  made  several  voyages  from 
Holland  to  America,  bringing  over  a  number  of  Huguenot 
emigrants,  though  we  have  no  certain  information  as  yet  that 
any  of  the  people  who  located  at  New  Paltz  crossed  the  ocean 
on  the  Bontecoe. 

There  is  equally  good  reason  for  supposing  that  the  proper 
orthography  is  Bon-ter-cou,  meaning  "neck  of  good  land"  and 
applied  to  the  fertile  necks  of  land  on  the  banks  of  the  Wallkill. 

About  the  year  1720,  Roelif  Eltinge,  son  of  Jan  Eltinge,  a 
native  of  Drenthe,  in  Holland,  came  from  Kingston  to  New 
Paltz.  He  married  the  daughter  of  Abm.  DuBois,  the  patentee, 
and  from  that  day  to  this  the  Eltinges  have  been  men  of  influ- 
ence and  greatly  respected  in  New  Paltz. 

Although  the  Paltz  patent  included  about  36,000  acres  of 
land,  yet  the  sons  and  grandsons  of  the  original  settlers  were, 
from  time  to  time,  obtaining  fresh  grants  of  land  to  the  south 
of    the    original    grant,    while    others    emigrated    to    Duchess, 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  59 

Orange  and  Greene  counties,  likewise  to  other  parts  of  the 
State,  and  to  New  Jersey  and  Pennsylvania.  Wherever  they 
settled  the  Huguenot  stock  usually  took  root. 

But  the  emigration  was  only  the  swarming  out.  The  old 
colony  of  New  Paltz  continued  to  thrive,  although  its  growth 
was  slow. 

In  1720  the  church  of  logs  in  which  they  had  worshiped  God 
gave  way  to  a  stone  structure. 

Previous  to  this  time,  and  after  the  departure  of  Rev.  Pierre 
Daille  for  Boston.  Rev.  David  Bonrepos  preached  at  New  Paltz, 
not  as  a  stated  pastor  but  as  a  supply. 

The  Dutch  Language  Superseding  the  French 

During  this  time  the  French  language  was  giving  way  and 
the  Dutch  taking  its  place.  It  is  as  difficult  to  determine  how 
long  the  French  language  was  used  at  New  Paltz  as  it  is  to 
say  how  long  the  Holland  tongue  was  spoken.  Very  old  people 
still  talk  in  Dutch  occasionally.  When  the  writer  was  a  child 
it  was  the  custom  for  the  old  people  to  talk  in  Dutch  when  they 
did  not  want  the  children  to  understand  what  they  were  say- 
ing. Father  informed  us  that  he  never  learned  to  speak  Eng- 
lish until  he  went  to  school.  The  first  and  second  generations 
of  the  New  Paltz  people  probably  talked  French  altogether. 

The  French  language  was  evidently  never  much  used  in  im- 
portant legal  documents  at  New  Paltz,  though  it  was  doubtless 
the  common  speech  of  the  people  for  at  least  half  a  century 
after  the  first  settlement.  The  country  being  under  English 
rule,  and  Kingston  being  a  Dutch  settlement,  it  was  natural 
that  official  documents  in  the  state  or  county  archives,  although 
relating  to  a  French-speaking  community,  should  be  written  in 
the  English  or  Dutch  tongue.     In  receipts  and  papers  of  that 


6o  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

nature  given  by  one  person  to  another  in  the  little  community 
the  French  language  was  used  and  many  of  these  papers  are 
still  in  existence.  In  the  old  graveyard  the  oldest  tombstones 
have  English  inscriptions.  On  the  church  book  the  first  entry 
in  Dutch  was  in  1718.  One  of  the  few  papers  in  French  that 
have  been  preserved  in  the  "Patentees'  trunk"  is  a  little  slip, 
dated  1729,  commencing  thus:  "Daniel  Hashrouck  a  paise  a 
jacobus  hrim  pour  le  vilage  un  demy  pistole,"  etc.  In  family 
collections  many  papers  in  French  have  come  to  light. 

Perhaps  the  most  noteworthy  papers  in  the  French  language 
in  the  Patentees'  trunk  are  the  two  wills  of  Jean  Tebenin, 
one  of  the  two  French  schoolmasters  of  the  little  settlement. 
One  of  these  wills  is  dated  February  20,  17 19,  and  the  other 
November  14,  1730.  The  testator,  who  had  no  wife  or  chil- 
dren, left  his  property  to  the  church,  and  mentions  particularly 
his  French  Bible,  which,  if  the  French  language  should  be 
superseded  by  the  Dutch,  must  be  sold  and  the  proceeds  given 
to  the  poor  in  the  church. 

Territory  Formerly  Part  of  This  Town,  But  Not  Within 
THE  Paltz  Patent 

It  must  be  noted  that  the  town  of  New  Paltz,  at  its 
greatest  extent  and  before  it  had  been  dismembered,  in- 
cluded much  territory  not  within  the  original  bounds  of 
the  Patent,  which  extended  only  about  a  mile  south  of  this 
village.  This  additional  territory,  included  in  the  town, 
comprised  a  number  of  smaller  patents,  which  had  become, 
either  by  purchase  or  by  grant  from  the  colonial  governors, 
the  property  of  descendants  of  the  Paltz  patentees. 

In  1685,  only  eight  years  after  the  Huguenots  settled  at 
New  Paltz,  a  tract  of  5,000  acres,  at  Guildford,  was  granted 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  6i 

to  James  Graham  and  John  Delavall.  On  this  tract  lived 
a  number  of  years  afterwards,  Ellsje,  the  widow  of  Joseph, 
son  of  Abraham  Hasbrouck,  one  of  the  Paltz  patentees. 
She  outlived  her  husband  about  forty-one  years,  raised  a 
large  family  and  here  some  of  her  descendants  still  till  the 
ancestral  acres.  The  original  grant  is  in  possession  of 
Joseph  Hasbrouck,  Jr. 

The  next  grant,  in  point  of  time,  was  doubtless  that  from 
Gov.  Dongan,  to  the  original  Louis  DuBois,  lying  prin- 
cipally on  the  west  side  of  the  Wallkill  and  extending  from 
the  Paltz  patent  to  the  Guilford  patent.  Louis,  in  his  will, 
makes  mention  of  the  fact  that  this  tract  had  been  granted  to 
him  by  patent  dated  June,  1688. 

Edmund  Eltinge  had  in  his  possession  a  release,  dated  in 
1729,  from  the  then  proprietors  of  the  Paltz  patent,  for 
the  sum  of  six  pence,  to  Solomon  and  Louis,  Jr.,  of  any 
claim  they  might  possibly  have  against  this  tract,  granted 
their  father.  On  this  tract,  on  the  west  side  of  the  Wallkill, 
Solomon  and  Louis,  Jr.,  had  located,  the  former  taking  the 
northern  part  of  the  tract  and  Louis  the  southern  part. 

The  next  grant  of  land,  in  point  of  time,  was  probably 
that  to  Captain  John  Evans  by  Governor  Fletcher,  in  1694, 
which  comprised  an  immense  territory  extending  from  New 
Paltz  patent  southward  into  Orange  county.  This  grant 
was  annulled  by  the  Legislature  five  years  afterwards,  and 
we  find  reference  to  this  fact  in  one  or  two  subsequent 
grants. 

The  next  grant,  adjoining  the  Paltz  patent  on  the  south, 
was  of  1,200  acres,  June  30,  1715,  to  Hugo  Frere,  Sen.,  the 
son  of  Hugo  the  Paltz  patentee,  and  to  his  sons,  Hugo,  Jr., 
Thomas  and  Isaac.  On  this  tract  his  descendants  are  still 
cultivating  the  soil  granted  to  their  ancestors  in  1715.   , 


62  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

In  1721,  January  21,  was  granted  the  Garland  patent  of 
2,000  acres,  taking  in  the  Kettleborough  and  Ireland  Corner 
neighborhoods.  On  this  tract  Garret  Ketaltas  was  a  free- 
holder, in  1728,  and  on  this  tract  Andries  and  Abram  Le- 
Fevre  and  Daniel  Deyo  resided  about  thirty  years  later 
and  here  a  number  of  their  descendants  still  live. 

In  1748  there  was  granted  to  Noah  Eltinge  and  Nathaniel 
LeFevre  3,000  acres,  lying  on  the  Paltz  Plains  and  extend- 
ing eastward  and  also  including  some  land  on  the  west  side 
of  the  Wallkill.  On  a  portion  of  this  grant  some  of  their 
descendants  are  still  living. 

Lastly,  in  point  of  time,  was  the  grant,  in  1753,  in  the 
name  of  George  II,  King  of  England,  to  Abraham  Has- 
brouck,  of  Kingston,  Louis  Bevier,  of  Marbletown.  and 
Jacob  Hasbrouck,  Jr.,  of  New  Paltz,  of  several  parcels  of 
land,  petitioned  for,  which,  as  stated  in  the  grant,  did  not 
exceed  2,000  acres,  and  was  part  of  the  tract  formerly 
granted  to  Capt.  John  Evans  and  afterwards  vacated  and 
lay  on  both  sides  of  the  Paltz  River,  some  parts  lying  to 
the  southward  of  the  Paltz  patent  and  some  parcels  south- 
ward of  the  grant  to  Noach  Eltinge  and  Nathaniel  LeFevre. 
The  parchment,  containing  this  patent  and  the  great  seal 
of  the  colony,  attached,  was  in  possession  of  Mr.  Samuel  B. 
Stilwell,  who  resided  on  part  of  the  tract  and  was  a  de- 
scendant of  the  Abm.  Hasbrouck.  of  Kingston,  to  whom 
one-third  of  this  patent  was  granted. 

The  First  Public  Highway 

The  first  highway,  probably,  in  this  town,  was  laid  in  1738, 
when  a  highway  was  laid  out,  as  stated  in  the  record,  for  the 


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purpose  of  enabling  the  people  to  get  to  church  at  New  Paltz 
and  Kingston.  The  route  stretched  from  one  to  another  of 
the  old  stone  houses  along  the  Wallkill,  north  from  our  village 
to  the  northern  bounds  of  the  patent,  crossing  the  Wallkill  by 
a  scow,  just  this  side  of  the  Bontecoe  school-house.  The  marks 
are  yet  to  be  seen  where  this  old  road  had  been  worked  down 
below  the  level  of  the  surrounding  soil.  About  forty  years 
later  this  road  was  abandoned  and  a  new  one  was  constructed 
about  one-eighth  of  a  mile  farther  east,  above  the  reach  of 
high  water.  As  a  consequence  of  this  removal  of  the  high- 
way, nearly  all  the  old  settlers  had  to  construct  lanes  from 
their  houses.  About  a  mile  north  of  the  village  the  new  high- 
way drew  so  near  to  the  old  that  an  angle  was  made,  and  the 
old  highway  was  used  for  the  rest  of  the  route  to  the  village. 

Disputes  in  Regard  to  the  Boundaries  of  the  Patent 

The  first  grant,  from  Governor  Andross,  did  not  define  the 
boundaries  of  the  patent  very  clearly.  In  1722  an  attempt 
was  made  to  fix  exactly  the  corner  of  the  patent  at  Paltz  Point 
(or^as  it  is  now  called  Mohonk)  as  is  shown  by  the  following 
document : 

"These  are  to  certify  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  of  New 
Paltz,  being  desirous  that  the  first  station  of  their  patent,  named 
Maggonck,  might  be  kept  in  remembrance,  did  desire  us,  Joseph 
Horsbrook,  John  Hardenburgh,  Roeleft  Eltinge,  Esq.,  Justices 
of  the  county  of  Ulster,  to  accompany  them  and  there  bring 
Ancrop,  the  Indian,  then  brought  us  to  the  High  Mountain 
which  is  named  Maggrnapogh  at  or  near  the  foot  of  which 
hill  is  a  small  run  of  water  and  a  swamp  which  he  called  Mag- 
gonck and  the  said  Indian,  Ancrop  affirms  it  to  be  the  right 


64  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Indian  names  of  the  said  places  as  witness  our  hands  this 
nineteenth  day  of  December,  1722. 

"JOSEPH    HASBROUCK, 
"HARDENBERGH, 
"ROELOFF  ELTINGE. 

"Ulster  County,     ) 
"April  1 6th,  1723.     \ 

"Recorded  for  said  county,  Records  in  lib.  CC.  fol.  205. 

"J.  GIL.  LIVINGSTON, 

"Clerk." 

In  regard  to  the  boundary  line  between  the  Paltz  patent  and 
the  patent  of  Louis  Dubois,  on  the  south,  there  was  also 
trouble,  and  in  1729  the  line  was  surveyed  by  Caldwallad.r 
Golden,  Jr.  A  letter  from  Josiah  DuBois  written  in  1850  says 
in  regard  to  a  certain  stone  on  the  west  bank  of  the  Wallkill : 

"I  have  a  deposition  on  parchment  of  Abm.  DuBois,  the 
patentee,  who  makes  oath  that  he  saw  an  Indian  named  Bon- 
tecoe  stand,  at  the  place  where  this  stone  is  with  one  foot  on 
one  side  of  the  brook  and  the  other  on  the  other,  and  heard 
him  say  the  lands  on  his  right  belong  to  the  DuBoises  and  those 
on  his  left  to  the  Frenchmen."  The  boundary  line  between 
New  Paltz  and  Marbletown,  and  also  between  New  Paltz  and 
the  Hardenbergh  patent  on  the  north  were  also  matters  of  dis- 
pute. It  was  claimed  that  the  Hardenbergh  patent  included 
Dashville  Falls,  and  it  was  alleged  on  the  part  of  the  New  PaUz 
people  that  the  surveyor  had  been  bribed  by  the  present  of  a 
cow  to  run  the  line  so  as  to  deprive  New  Paltz  of  the  valuable 
water  privilege.  The  bounds  of  the  patent  as  finally  deter- 
mined, left  the  Falls  in  the  Hardenbergh  patent. 

The  boundary  line  between  New  Paltz  and  Marbletown  w^as 


HISTO'RY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  65 

not  settled  until  after  the  revolutionary  war.  The  top  of  the 
mountain  was  the  line,  but  it  was  impossible  to  determine  ex- 
actly where  the  top  of  the  mountain  was.  We  have  in  our 
possession  an  ancient  document  containing  the  proceedings  of 
a  meeting  at  which  Dr.  George  Wurts,  the  first  Wurts  in  this 
place,  was  Chairman,  and  Isaac  LeFever,  clerk,  at  which  the 
representatives  of  the  different  Paltz  families  bound  them- 
selves to  stand  together  in  contesting  the  claims  of  Marble- 
town.  In  the  suit  which  followed  the  Paltz  people  employed 
Aaron  Burr  as  their  attorney  and  won  the  case. 


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CHAPTER  VIII 

A  Pure  Democracy 

The  government  of  New  Paltz  in  the  earHest  period  was 
evidently  a  pure  Democracy,  the  heads  of  families  gathering 
in  a  body  to  frame  regulations  for  the  general  welfare.  This 
fact  is  plainly  set  forth  in  the  following : 

New  Paltz  Orders 
recorded 

We  inhabitants  of  ye  Niew  Pals  in  generall  are  mett  together 
ye  23th  day  of  Feb.  1711-12  to  conclued  concerning  all  our 
fences  of  the  Land  as  also  of  the  pastures,  to  the  plurality  of 
Votes  according  to  the  order  of  the  Warrant  to  the  Constable 
directed ; 

First  of  all  we  shall  begin  to  ye  kill  or  kreek  next  of  Solomon 
Dubois  to  ye  Aest  of  sd  Solomon  and  then  the  fence  shall  run 
to  ye  bounds  of  Abraham  Dubois,  from  thence  along  a  run  of 
watter  and  then  to  the  pasture  of  Louis  Bevier,  and  the  sd  fence 
is  to  be  made  of  three  Rails  and  of  three  and  fifty  inches  high, 
and  then  ye  sd  Louis  Bevier  is  obliged  to  make  and  repare  a 
good  and  sufficient  fence  a  Long  his  pasture  to  ye  East  until 
he  Comes  to  Abraham  Dubois,  and  then  Jacob  Hasbroucq  shall 
make  or  have  a  good  Sufficient  fence  of  the  same  high  as  here 
above  mentioned  until  he  comes  to  the  pasture  of  Daniel  Dubois 
near  of  the  tourelle  or  neest  and  then  the  gate  Shall  be  Set 
according  as  it  is  ordered  or  concluded,  then  the  N.  Pals  town 
Shall  together  make  the  fence  from  Jacob  Hasbroucq,  to  the 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  67 

sd.  gate  and  so  we  shall  begin  the  vasmakerslant  fences  to  the 
kill  or  kreek  at  the  Landing  place,  to  the  erf  of  John  Has- 
broucq  and  every  one  of  us  must  make  his  part  or  share  at  fix 
Raeles  as  now  is  and  them  that  have  theirs  erf  opposite  the  P. 
Vasmakersland  they  shall  make  and  maintaine  a  good  and  suf- 
ficient fence  to  the  house  of  Hugue  Frere,  as  also  at  both  sides 
of  the  street  and  between  the  Erfs  a  good  and  close  fence  to 
be  made,  it  is  also  said  that  ye  fences  of  the  Creupelbos  shall 
begin  to  the  house  of  Hugue  frere  and  so  a  Long  the  above  sd 
Creupelbos  so  fare  as  hath  been  measured,  and  them  that  have 
a  part  or  lots  in  sd  Creupelbos  they  shall  make  and  hold  a 
good  and  sufficient  six  Railes  fence  of  fifty  three  inches  high 
there  he  now  is  at  present.  And  to  the  end  of  sd  fence  shall 
begin  the  bosh  fence  of  three  Railes  of  the  same  high  as  here 
above  mentioned  and  so  along  to  the  kill  or  kreek  neer  of 
Abraham  Frere  so  as  it  is  now  deeld  and  devided  Now  to  the 
other  sides  of  the  kill  or  kreek  to  the  West  we  shall  begin  to 
the  long  macos  or  long  bondecoe  and  shall  be  made  and  kept 
as  now  is  at  present  and  of  the  same  high  to  the  time  that  wee 
think  fit  to  join  him  together.  

As  also  the  fences  of  ye  petit  macos  or  litle  bondecoe  shall 
be  made  and  kept  as  now  is  at  present  and  of  the  same  high 
as  above  sd.  for  ye  time  of  two  year  and  then  shall  be  sett  a 
long  de  mountaing  in  ye  best  convenient  place  that  we  think 
sutable,  and  then  will  be  joined  to  the  high  bridge  fences  & 
from  sd  bridge  to  the  kill  or  kreke  near  Solomon  Dubois  to 
the  West ;  Every  one  shall  make  and  kepe  his  fences  good  and 
sufficient  at  three  Reals  and  of  ye  same  high  as  aforesd. 

More  concerning  the  old  pastures  every  one  is  oblidged  and 
bound  to  doe  as  his  Nebourgh  that  is  to  say  the  just  half  of  ye 
fences  of  five  Raels  or  other  wise  &  that  good  and  sufficient. 

And  as  for  ye  kettel  doing  Damage  and  so  taken  they  shall 


68  '    HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

be  put  in  pound  by  him  that  shall  there  unto  be  chosen  or  im- 
poured  by  the  inhabitants  of  sd  place. 

And  each  and  every  horse  or  Cow  beast  so  taken  in  damage 
shall  pay  a  piece  nine  pence  for  a  fine,  the  one  half  for  him  there- 
unto chosen,  and  the  other  half  for  the  toune.  And  as  for  the 
hogs  they  shall  have  no  Liberties  for  to  Runne  free;  but  as 
for  the  Sheeps  they  may  runne  free  until  that  time  that  they 
goe  in  Dammage  in  ye  Corne  or  in  the  pastures,  provided  ye 
fences  be  good  and  sufficient  as  for  the  first  time  Warning 
shall  be  given  Charitably  to  ye  owner  to  kepe  them  out  Dam- 
mage, but  if  they  are  once  more  taken  in  Dammage  they  shall 
pay  for  a  fine  3  pences  a  peace.  And  as  for  the  horses  which 
Rune  upon  the  Land  in  the  fale  they  shall  be  taken  away  the 
30th  of  September  otherwise  they  shall  pay  the  fine  here- 
above  sd.  Concerning  all  the  fences  here  before  mentioned, 
Each  and  Every  one  is  oblidged  and  bound  to  make  and  kepe 
his  owne  fence  at  the  time  Limitted  or  ordered  by  him  there- 
unto chosen  to  take  notice  of  sd.  fences,  but  in  case  any  one 
neglict  or  will  not  doe  or  make  his  fence  he  shall  pay  for  a 
fyne  six  shellings,  and  the  Viewers  of  fences  shall  make  or 
have  made  the  sd  fence  or  fences  at  his  owne  charge  as  ye 
Law  Dirrect  in  such  case. 

Here  is  farther  Concluded  for  them  that  leaves  any  gates 
open,  it  be  with  a  maHcious  intend,  or  neglict  they  shall  pay 
for  a  fine  three  shellings. — And  the  money  so  Received  of  the 
finnes  shall  be  imployd  to  pay  the  cost  and  charges  of  the 
touwne,  and  such  person  or  persons  thereunto  chosen  to  Re- 
ceive the  sd  fines  shall  be  accoumptable  or  give  an  accounts 
yearly  to  ye  touwne. 

Recorded  p. 

W.  Nottingham  Clerk. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  69 

Land  Worked  in  Common 

There  is  good  evidence  that  in  the  early  settlement  the  land 
was  worked  in  common.  In  the  bends  of  the  Wallkill  four 
spots  of  fertile  land  were  known  as  Grote  Bontecoe,  Kline 
Bontecoe,  Bontecoe  in  Haning  and  Bontecoe.  Grote  Bonte- 
coe was  certainly  worked  by  the  settlers  in  common,  and  there 
is  good  reason  to  believe  that  other  lands  were  also  so  worked. 

The  Government  of  the  Dusine 

In  1728  there  were  twenty-four  proprietors  at  New  Paltz, 
and  at  that  time  was  instituted  the  government  of  the  Twelve 
Men  or  Dusine.  They  were  chosen  annually,  and  had  power 
to  act  and  set  in  good  order  and  unity  all  common  affairs. 
These  twelve  men  exercised  the  power  of  dividing  lands  by 
lot,  in  the  Paltz  patent,  and  giving  title  by  parole,  without  deed. 

They  made  rules  in  regard  to  fence  building,  and  imposed 
fines  for  violation  of  these  rules,  in  fact  they  exercised,  to  some 
extent,  judicial  as  well  as  legislative  powers,  until  in  1785, 
when  the  town  was  incorporated  in  the  State  government,  and 
by  special  Act  of  the  Legislature  the  grants  and  partitions  of 
the  Dusine  were  confirmed.  It  does  not  appear  that  any  appeal 
was  ever  taken  to  the  Colonial  Government  from  the  acts  of 
the  Dusine.  There  were  divisions  of  land  into  lots  among  the 
proprietors  at  two  different  times,  the  land  being  set  off  in 
regular  tiers,  numbering  from  one  to  twelve. 

There  were,  besides  the  Dusine,  regularly  chosen  town 
officers  whose  duties  were  distinct  from  those  of  the  twelve 
men.     The  latter  were  chosen  annually  at  town  meeting  and 


70  HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z 

were  descendants  either  in  the  male  or  female  line  from  the 
patentee  whom  they  represented. 

The  Dusine  were  elected  by  viva  voce  vote  annually  just  be- 
fore the  poll  opened.  In  the  latter  period  of  their  existence 
about  the  only  power  exercised  was  to  settle  disputes  concern- 
ing land  titles. 

This  government  of  the  Dusine  has  no  parallel  in  the  colonial 
history  of  America.  It  was  transplanted  from  the  banks  of 
the  Rhine  to  the  banks  of  the  Wallkill.  We  are  told  that  the 
only  other  European  colony  in  which  it  had  existed  was  a 
Huguenot  settlement  founded  at  about  the  same  time  in  South 
Africa. 

The  document  establishing  the  government  of  the  Dusine  or 
Twelve  Men  is  one  of  the  papers  that  have  come  down  in  tne 
Patentees'  trunk.     It  is  in  English,  as  follows : 

To  all  Christian  People  to  whom  These  presents  shall  come 
or  in  any  ways  may  concern  Greeting.  Whereas  Edmond  An- 
dross  Esq'r  Seigneur  of  Sansmarez,  late  Governor  General 
under  his  Royal  Highness  James  Duke  of  York  and  Albany  &c., 
of  all  his  Territorys  In  America  By  his  Letters  Pattent  bearing 
Date  the  29th  Day  of  September  in  the  Year  of  our  Lord  1677 
Did  Give,  Ratifye,  Confirme  and  Grant  unto  Lewis  DuBois 
and  partners,  that  is  to  say,  Christian  Doyo,  Abraham  Haus- 
broecq,  Andries  Lefevre,  Jean  Broecq,  Pierre  Doyo,  Laurens 
Bivier,  Anthony  Crespell,  Abraham  DuBois,  Hugo  Frere,  Isaac 
DuBois  and  Simon  Lefever  their  heirs  and  Assignes  All  That 
certain  piece  of  Land  lyeing  at  the  South  side  of  Rondout 
Creek  or  Kill  begining  from  the  High  Hills  Called  Moggonck 
from  them  Stretching  South  East  near  the  great  River,  to  a 
certaine  point  or  hook  called  the  Juffrous  Hoocke,  lyeing  in 
the  long  Beach  named  by  the  Indians  Magaatranics,  then  North 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  71 

up  along  the  River,  to  an  Island  in  a  Crooked  Elbow,  In  the 
beginning-  of  the  long  Beach  Called  by  the  Indians  Raphoos 
then  west  on  the  High  Hills  to  a  place  called  Waratahoes  and 
Tawarataque  and  soo  along  the  said  High  Hills  South  West 
to  Moggoncck  aforesaid  To  hold  unto  the  said  Lewis  DuBois 
and  partners  their  heirs  and  Assignes,  to  the  proper  use  and 
behoof  of  him  the  said  Lewis  DuBois  and  partners  their  heirs 
and  Assignes  forever. 

And  Whereas  the  aforesaid  Patentes  in  their  life  time  and 
since  their  Decease  their  Severall  heirs  or  Assignes  have  Sev- 
erally according  to  their  Just  Rights  and  Interests  therein  held 
Enjoyed  and  Improved  some  part  of  the  aforesaid  Land  and 
premises  Commonly  known  by  the  name  of  New  Paltz,  ac- 
cordingly to  the  Severall  Divisions  and  partitions  that  have 
been  made  between  them  by  Parale  without  Deed,  and  the 
other  parts  thereof  yet  Remaining  In  common  and  Undivided 
Now  Know  Yee  That  we  whose  names  are  under  written  and 
who  have  Signed  and  Sealed  These  presents  being  owners  and 
Interested  In  the  aforesaid  Pattent,  for  the  Good  Order  Regu- 
lation benefitts  and  profitts  of  the  freeholders  and  Inhabitants 
in  the  said  Pattent  as  likewise  for  the  Maintaining,  Preserving, 
Defending  and  Keeping  Whole  and  Entire  the  full  Right  Title 
benefitts  propertys  and  advantages  belonging  or  in  any  wise 
appertaining  unto  the  aforesaid  freeholders  and  Inhabitants  by 
Vertue  and  Authority  of  the  above  mentioned  Pattent  and  of 
the  Several  Conveyances  and  Last  Wills  and  Testaments  of 
the  aforesaid  Pattentees  and  of  their  heirs  and  Assignes  and 
for  makeing  good  and  firme  the  aforesaid  Divisions  and  par- 
titions made  by  the  aforesaid  Patentees  in  their  lifetime  and 
since  their  Decease  by  their  Severall  heirs  and  Assignes  and 
for  makeing  a  further  and  more  perfect  Division  and  Partition 
of  the  undivided  Lands  and  premises  now  lyeing  in  Common 


72  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

and  Undivided  and  unimproved  within  the  bounds  of  the  afore- 
said Pattent  have  Thought  fitt  and  Convenient  and  we  Doe  by 
these  presents  Covenant  and  Grant  to  and  with  each  other, 
that  there  shall  and  may  be  Yearly  and  every  Year  forever 
hereafter  Chosen  and  Elected  for  the  purposes  above  mentioned 
by  the  pleurality  of  Votes  of  the  freeholders  and  Inhabitants 
within  the  aforesaid  Pattent  Twelve  good  able  and  sufficient 
men  freeholders  and  Inhabitants  who  have  an  interest  within 
the  said  pattent  Representing  the  aforesaid  Twelve  Pattentees, 
That  is  to  say  out  of  every  of  us  who  are  owners  and  occu- 
piers, or  hath  a  Right  In  each  of  the  aforesaid  Pattents  Shares 
Respectively  One,  which  Election  shall  and  may  be  held  Yearly 
and  every  Year  at  the  New  Paltz  aforesaid  on  the  first  Tuesday 
in  April  and  in  Case  any  of  the  freeholders  being  so  Chosen 
and  Elected  as  aforesaid  Refuse  Denye  and  will  not  Serve  that 
Then  he  shall  provide  one  who  is  likewise  an  owner  and  hath 
a  Right  in  the  same  Pattentees  Share  in  its  Stead  and  place, 
who  not  being  produced  or  Doth  not  appear  within  a  fortnight 
after  the  Election  to  be  held  as  aforesaid.  Then  the  other 
Elected  men  shall  Nominate  and  take  one  who  is  an  owner 
and  hath  a  Right  within  the  said  pattentees  share  to  Act  in 
his  Stead  And  we  Doe  by  These  presents  every  of  us  severally 
in  behalf  of  ourselves  our  heirs  Executors  Administrators  and 
every  of  them  and  not  Joyntly  Give  Grant  and  Bequeath  unto 
the  aforesaid  Twelve  men  or  the  Major  part  of  them  to  be 
elected  and  Nominated  in  manner  as  aforesaid  full  power  and 
Authority  to  Act  and  Sett  in  Good  order  and  unity  all  Common 
Affairs,  Businesses  or  things  comeing  before  them  belonging  to 
or  concerning  the  Right  Title  Interest  or  property  of  the 
Township  of  the  New  Paltz  aforesaid  and  Commonalty  within 
the  said  Pattent  According  to  Law  or  Equity  and  to  the  best 
of  their  knowledge  and  understanding  And  That  if  it  should 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  73 

soe  happen  that  the  aforesaid  Twelve  men  to  be  elected  as 
aforesaid  Should  Disburse  any  money  for  Charges  or  other 
Expenses  for  Defending  and  preserving  the  Right  Title  Inter- 
est and  property  of  the  Township  of  the  New  Paltz  afores'd, 
and  the  Commonalty  within  the  said  Pattent,  That  then  we  and 
every  of  us  Respectively  according  to  our  Respective  Rights 
and  Interests  in  the  aforesaid  Pattent  shall  bear  and  pay  an 
equall  proportion  of  the  afores'd  Charges  and  expenses  soe 
beene  at  by  the  aforesaid  Twelve  men  or  any  of  them,  and  that 
they,  the  said  Twelve  men  Shall  and  may  Give  Deeds  of  Par- 
tition or  other  proper  Conveyances  in  Law  for  the  Confirmation 
and  Assertaining  Each  man's  Just  Share  and  Dividend  of  the 
aforesaid  Divided  land  and  premises  according  to  the  aforesaid 
Severall  Devisions  and  partitions  thereof  made  by  the  aforesaid 
Twelve  pattentees  in  their  lifetime  and  by  the  Severall  heirs 
and  Assigness  since  their  Decease  And  we  Doe  by  these  pres- 
ents further  give  and  Grant  unto  the  aforesaid  Twelve  men  to 
be  Elected  and  Nominated  as  aforesaid  or  the  Major  part  of 
them  full  power  and  authority  to  make  a  further  and  more 
perfect  Division  and  partition  of  the  aforesaid  undivided  Land 
and  premisses  or  soe  much  thereof  as  they  shall  from  time  to 
time  see  cause  fer  or  think  convenient  which  Devision  is  to  oe 
made  in  manner  and  forme  following  That  is  to  say  That  the 
said  Undivided  Lande  and  premises  or  such  part  thereof  as 
they  shall  from  time  to  time  see  cause  fer  or  think  convenient 
shall  be  laid  out  in  Twelve  Equal  Shares  and  Devisions  soe 
that  the  one  is  not  of  more  Valine  than  the  other  and  Then  the 
aforesaid  Twelve  Shares  or  Devisions  shall  be  numbered  and 
then  the  aforesaid  Twelve  men  shall  Draw  Lotts  for  the  same 
and  such  Share  or  Division  as  falls  to  the  Lotts  of  the  afore- 
said Twelve  men  Respectively  Shall  be  and  remaine  to  the 
proper  use  benefitt  and  behoof  of  us  who  are  properly  Inter- 


74  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

ested  in  the  Respective  pattentees  Share  they  are  soe  elected 
and  chosen  for  according  to  our  Just  Shares  and  Interests 
therein  for  which  the  aforesaid  Twelve  men  are  to  Give  Deeds 
of  conveyance  for  the  same,  And  that  the  same  shall  stand  and 
Remaine  as  a  full  and  perfect  partition  and  Severance  for  the 
same,  And  that  after  such  partition  and  Alottment  made  in 
manner  as  aforesaid  We  whose  names  are  under  subscribed 
and  who  have  signed  and  sealed  these  presents  Respectively 
and  our  heirs  and  Assignes  shall  stand  to  and  agree  to  the  said 
partition  and  Alottment  soe  to  be  made  in  manner  as  aforesaia 
according  to  the  true  Intent  and  meaning  of  these  presents  And 
shall  permit  and  suffer  the  same  to  stand  Remaine  and  Abide  in 
its  full  Strength  and  force  forever  as  if  we  ourselves  had  been 
present  and  consented  thereto  and  Gave  Deeds  of  partition 
for  the  same  And  That  the  said  Twelve  men  or  such  thereof 
as  there  shall  be  others  Chosen  in  their  stead  at  the  End  of 
the  Year  shall  be  accountable  to  the  New  Elected  And  Soe 
Yearly  and  every  Year  forever  hereafter  And  soe  having 
faithfully  Served  they  shall  be  Duely  and  lawfully  Dis- 
missed and  Discharged  for  their  proceeding  in  behalf  of 
the  Township  and  Commonalty  as  aforesaid.  —  And  Now 
fer  the  True  performance  of  all  and  singular  the  Articles 
Covenants  and  Agreements  as  aforesaid  soe  far  as  the  same 
are  to  be  performed  by  us  Severally  and  Respectively,  Each 
and  every  of  us  whose  name  are  hereunder  Subscribed,  Doe 
and  Doth  Severally  bind  himself  his  heirs.  Executors  and  Ad- 
ministrators In  the  sum  of  fifty  pounds  currant  money  of  the 
province  of  New  York,  to  be  paid  unto  each  and  every  the 
other  of  us  his  heirs  Executors  and  Administrators,  upon  the 
non  performance  of  any  of  the  Articles  Covenants  or  Agree- 
ments aforesaid  which  on  our  severall  and  Respective  parts 
are  to  be  Done  and  performed  According  to  the  True  Intent 


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75 


and  Meaning  of  These  presents  In  Witness  whereof  we  have 
hereunto  of  one  Assent  and  Consent  Sett  our  hands  and  affixed 
our  Seales  This  Twenty-first  Day  of  April  In  the  first  Year 
of  his  Majestys  Reigne  Anno  Dom  One  Thousand  Seven 
hundred  and  Twenty-Eight. 


Abraham  du  hois 

(seal) 

Samuel  Bevier 

(seal) 

his 

Daniel  DuBois 

(seal) 

Hugo  X  frere 

(seal) 

Jacob  hasbrouck 

(seal) 

mark 

hanrey  doyo 

(seal) 

Andre  le  fevre 

(seal) 

daniel  has  broucq 

(seal) 

isaac  le  Fevre 

(seal) 

Yan  een 

(seal) 

yean  le  fevre 

(seal) 

his 

Solomons  has  broucq 

(seal) 

Hugo-hu-Frere  Junr. 

(seal) 

Abraham  Bevier 

(seal) 

her 

Louis  bevier 

(seav) 

Elizabet  Een 

(seal) 

his 

Sara  een 

(seal) 

John  X  Teerpenningh 

(seal) 

mark 

mark 

MariaMagdalena-M-Een(seal) 

Abraham  doiau 

(seal) 

mark 

Crestian  doio 

(seal) 

matys  slecht  juneyer 

(seal) 

Jacob  Frere 

(seal) 

Anthony  Yelverton 

(seal) 

Sealed  and  Delivered  by  the  within  Subscribers  Abraham 
DuBois,  Hugo  Frere,  Andri  LeFever,  Samuel  Bevier,  Daniel 
DuBois,  Jacob  Hasbrouck,  Isaac  LeFevre,  Jean  LeFevre,  Solo- 
mon Hasbroucq,  Henrey  Doyo,  Daniel  Hasbroucq,  Jan  Een, 
Hugo  Frere  Junr.,  Abraham  Bevier,  Louis  Bevier,  John  Teer- 
penningh,  Elizabet  Een,    Sara   Een,   Maria   Magdelena   Een, 


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Mattys  Slecht  Junr.  and  Abraham  Doiou,  Jacob  Frere,  In  the 
presence  of  us, 

AHasbrouck. 

J.  Bruyn,  Junr. 

Sealed  and  Delivered  by  the  within  subscriber  Cristiaen 
doyo  in  the  presence  of  us:   My  15  :    174 — . 

Isaak  Doyo. 
Johannis  Lefever. 

Sealed  and  Delivered  by  the  Within  Subscribed  Anthony 
Yearenton  in  the  presence  of  us  April  8  Annoy:    Dom :    1752. 

abraham  van  der  marken. 
Jacobus  Has  brouck. 

Ulster    I 
County  j 

Be  it  remembered  that  on  the  Eight  Day  of  May  in  the 
year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  seven  Hundred  and  Seventy 
one,  Personally,  Came  before  me  Dirck  Wynkoop  Junr.  Esqr. 
one  of  the  Judges  of  the  Court  of  Common  pleas  for  said 
County  Coll.  Abraham  Hasbrouck  whome  being  Duly  sworn 
on  the  Holy  Evangelist  of  Almighty  God  Deposeth  and  saith 
that  he  wass  present  and  saw,  Abraham  Dubois,  Hugo  Frere, 
Andri  LeFever,  Jacob  Frere,  Samuel  Bevier,  Daniel  Dubois, 
Jacob  Hasbrouck,  Isaac  Le  Fever,  Jan  Le  Fevere,  Salomons 
Hasbroucq.  Hanrey  Deyo,  Daniel  Hasbroucq,  Jan  Een,  Hugo 
Frere  Jun.  Abraham  Bevier,  Louis  Bevier,  John  Teerpenningh, 
Elizabet  Een,  Sara  Een,  Maria  Magdalena  Een,  Mattys  Slechi 
Jun.  and  Abraham  Deiou,  Syn,  Seal  and  Deliver  the  within 
Deed,  as  their  Voluntary  act  and  Deed  for  the  use,  therein  men- 
tioned,  and   that   at,    Same  Time,   Jacobus    Bruyn   Junr.   and 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  yy 

himself  Subscribed  their  names  thereto,  as,  Witnesses,  and 
also,  Abraham  Deyo,  acknowledged,  at  same  time,  before  me 
that  he  had  Executed  the  same  deed  as  his  Voluntary  act  and 
deed  for  the  use  therein  mentioned,  and  that  at  the  same  time 
of  Executing-  this  deed,  he  was  underage,  but  that  now  acknowl- 
edges, that  the  same  is  his  Voluntary  act  and  deed  and  at 
same  time  also  appeared,  Isaac  Doyo,  whom  being  duly  sworn 
on  the  holy  Evengelist  of  Almight  god  deposeth  and  saith,  that 
he  was  present  and  saw  Christian  Doye  Syn  Seal  and  deliver 
the  within  deed,  as  his  Voluntary  act  and  deed  for  the  use 
therein  mentioned,  and  that,  at  same  time  Johannis  Lefever 
and  himself  Subscribed  their  names  thereto  as  Witnesses  ana 
also,  that  on  the  Tenth  day  of  said  month  Jacobus  Hasbrouck, 
being  duly  sworn,  as  aforesaid  saith  that  he  wass  present  and 
saw  Anthony  Yelverton,  syn  seal  and  De  Liver  the  within 
deed  as  his  Volutary  act  and  deed  for  the  use  therein  men- 
tioned, and  Also,  that  at  same  time  Abraham  Van  dermercken 
and  himself  had  Subscribed  their  names  thereto  as  Witnesses, 
and  I  have  perused  the  same  and  find  no  Material  Erezures, 
nor  Interlinations  therein.  Wherefore  I  do  Alow  the  same  to 
be  recorded D  :  Wynkoop  Jun. 


78  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 


CHAPTER  IX 

The  Indians  and  Hunting  Stories 

The  Indians  make  but  a  small  figure  in  the  early  history 
of  New  Paltz.  There  is  no  account  of  their  having  ever 
troubled  the  inhabitants  a  particle.  This  was  because  the  Paltz 
people  had  honestly  paid  for  the  land  and  treated  the  Indians 
kindly.  The  last  remains  of  the  red  men  in  this  locality  are 
said  to  have  lived  in  a  little  village  on  the  south  bank  of  the 
Plattekill,  where  it  empties  into  the  Wallkill.  Many  arrow 
heads,  both  of  the  kind  used  in  hunting  and  in  war,  have  been 
picked  up  in  that  locality.  The  Normal  School  grounds  were 
an  Indian  burying  ground.  An  Indian  skeleton,  with  large 
beads,  obtained  no  doubt  from  some  Dutch  trader,  was  dug  up 
near  Mr.  Low's  brick  yard  when  the  railroad  was  in  process 
of  construction. 

In  the  sale  of  the  patent  the  red  men  reserved  a  tract  called 
Ah  Qua,  southeast  of  Perrine's  Bridge,  on  account  of  supposed 
mineral  wealth. 

Old  stories  relate  that  at  butchering  time  they  would  visit 
the  farmers'  yards  to  select  bits  of  the  entrails  of  the  slaugh- 
tered animals. 

The  few  remaining  at  that  time  went  off  with  Sir  William 
Johnson,  the  Tory  leader  in  the  Revolutionary  war.  Now  and 
then  one  would  come  around  with  baskets  to  sell.  Once  a 
member  of  such  a  company  was  drowned  in  the  Wallkill,  at 
Libertyville.  Then  they  came  no  more,  saying  that  the 
drowned  man  "spooked"  them.  One  of  the  last  of  the  Indians 
was  called  Tottoi.     He  would  make  maple  sugar  and  trade  it 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  79 

off  for  bread.  When  he  died  he  was  wrapped  in  a  coffin  of 
bark  and  buried  by  Daniel  and  Levi  Van  Wagenen.  Probably 
the  last  visit  of  the  Indians  to  this  place  was  about  1820,  when 
two  of  them  came  to  the  reservation  at  Ah  Qua.  It  is  related 
that  at  one  time  Indians  came  near  Dashville  and  cut  some 
timber  for  baskets.  Some  of  the  people  started  to  drive  them 
away,  but  Ezekiel  Eltinge  said  "let  them  alone;  they  have 
the  right."  His  remark  was  no  doubt  on  account  of  the  reser- 
vation at  Ah  Qua. 

The  Indians  kept  up  the  custom  of  holding  kint-a-koys  at 
Ah  Qua  after  the  whites  had  settled  around.  They  would  sing 
and  feast  as  well  as  dance,  and  borrow  vessels  in  which  to 
prepare  the  food  for  these  occasions.  No  matter  how  clean 
these  vessels  were  when  borrowed  the  Indians  would  wash 
them.  The  exact  spot  on  which  these  kint-a-koys  were  held 
was  about  a  half  a  mile  southeast  of  the  Bontecoe  school-house, 
where  the  house  and  garden  of  the  late  Abm.  Freer  were  lo- 
cated. The  Indian  title  to  the  reservation  at  Ah  Qua  was 
probably  never  extinguished,  but  finally  the  tract  was  sold  for 
taxes  and  in  that  way  became  the  property  of  the  whites. 

There  was  a  family  of  Indians  that  would  come  and  live  in 
a  hut  in  the  woods  of  Cornelius  DuBois  (now  the  W.  H.  D. 
Blake  place),  and  with  his  permission  cut  down  any  timber 
they  desired,  which  they  would  manufacture  into  scoops  and 
baskets.  Stephen  G.  DuBois  tells  us  that  when  he  was  a  small 
child  he  visited  this  Indian  family  many  times.  There  was  a 
little  Indian,  called  Jake,  the  grandson  of  the  old  Indian,  who 
was  the  head  of  the  family,  and  who  used  to  shoot  squirrels 
from  the  trees  with  his  bow  and  arrows.  Stephen  tells  us  that 
one  day,  when  he  was  on  a  visit  to  the  hut,  little  Jake  showed 
a  skill  with  the  bow  and  arrow  nearly  equal  to  that  of  his 
grandfather,  by  shooting  a  spider  on  the  opposite  side  of  the 


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shanty.  After  a  while  the  old  Indian,  who  was  the  head  of  the 
family,  was  accidentally  drowned  in  crossing  the  Wallkill, 
which  he  frequently  did  to  visit  a  white  man,  named  "Mocky" 
Wackman,  who  lived  on  the  other  side  of  the  Wallkill,  with 
whom  he  was  very  friendly.  After  his  death  the  family  offered 
a  portion  of  his  clothing  to  "Mocky,"  who,  thinking  it  a  pity 
to  take  any  of  the  poor  Indian's  clothes,  declined  the  gift, 
when  the  garment  was  instantly  tossed  in  the  fire. 

The  following  story  Aunt  Judy  Jackson  relates  as  having 
happened  in  her  childhood  days,  about  1812,  when  she  was  a 
slave  in  the  family  of  Jeremiah  Merritt  on  the  county  house 
plains : 

Her  master  in  the  fall  had  taken  her  behind  him  on  horse- 
back and  started  for  the  mountain  to  bring  up  the  cattle  which 
had  been  running  at  large  in  the  woods.  It  was  growing  late 
in  the  fall  and  it  was  time  to  bring  up  the  stock  for  the  winter. 

Suddenly  as  they  were  riding  along  they  came  upon  an  In- 
dian wigwam.  Merritt  jumped  off  the  horse  which  he  left  in 
her  charge  and  entered  the  hut.  He  remained  there  a  long, 
long  time.  At  last  she  grew  tired  and  moving  up  to  the  wig- 
wam pushed  open  the  door.  There  were  about  a  dozen  In- 
dians sitting  on  the  floor  engaged  in  making  baskets.  One 
man,  who  seemed  to  be  the  chief,  had  a  ring  hanging  from  his 
nose.  Merritt  was  talking  with  the  Indians  and  did  not  go  to 
the  mountains  to  get  the  cattle  that  day.  Aunt  Judy  is  posi- 
tive that  those  Indians  were  spies  who  had  come  probably  from 
Canada  to  get  what  information  they  could  in  the  interest  of 
the  English  Government.  She  says,  moreover,  that  Merritt 
was  a  tory  and  this  accounted  for  the  long  talk  he  was  having 
with  the  Indians  in  the  wigwam.  The  visit  of  the  Indians 
attracted  great  attention  and  the  people  from  all  the  country 
around  went  to  see  them. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  8i 

Mrs.  Edward  McEntee's  recollections  of  her  early  child- 
hood days,  as  related  to  us,  contain  more  accounts  of  the  In- 
dians than  the  recollections  of  any  of  the  other  old  people  with 
whom  we  have  talked.  They  probably  remained  longer  in 
the  locality  about  Rosendale  Plains  than  elsewhere  in  this 
vicinity.  On  the  east  side  of  the  road  was  an  Indian  burying 
ground.  One  of  the  neighbors  attempted  to  plow  it  up,  but 
the  red  men  made  him  stop.  The  Indians  had  bark  wigwams 
scattered  through  the  woods.  The  spot  where  one  of  these 
had  stood  would  be  marked  long  after  it  had  disappeared  by  a 
patch  of  tansy,  that  being  a  favorite  herb  with  the  red  men. 
She  says  she  saw  the  Indians  many  times  when  a  child.  They 
were  kind  people  if  treated  well.  In  their  wigwams  they 
would  lie  on  the  floor  with  their  feet  to  the  fire.  Sometimes^ 
they  would  pass  the  house,  the  pappooses  strapped  to  their 
fathers'  backs.  The  little  ones  would  laugh  and  call  to  her. 
When  she  was  a  young  woman  she  lived  at  Benjamin  Van 
Wagenen's  in  this  village.  The  Indians  would  come  and  shoot 
with  bow  and  arrow  at  copper  coins  at  a  distance  of  about  fifty 
yards.  If  they  hit  the  penny  they  would  keep  it.  (This  was 
a  travelling  company.)  When  she  was  a  small  child  an  In- 
dian woman  would  call  at  the  house  and  delight  to  play  with 
her,  sometimes  lifting  her  up  by  one  arm,  but  this  her  mother 
forbade  for  fear  of  injury.  At  one  time  there  was  a  wigwam 
right  by  her  grandfather's  door.  When  the  first  Freer  lo- 
cated at  Bontecoe  an  Indian  set  up  his  wigwam  in  the  clearing. 
Sometimes  he  would  lie  drunk  on  the  door-step.  He  was  not 
disturbed  and  after  a  time  went  away. 

A  story  related  by  Aunt  Judy  Jackson  is  as  follows : 

When  she  was  a  slave  in  the  family  of  Andries  P.  LeFevre 
at    Kettleborough,  about  1820,    six    Indians    came    dressed    in 


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women's  clothing.  They  lurked  about  the  neighborhood  for 
some  time.  At  Mrs.  Andries  J.  LeFevre's  they  tapped  on  the 
window.  At  Matthew  LeFevre's  they  entered  the  house  and 
talked  but  little,  but  asked  for  buttermilk.  The  buttermilk 
was  brought  from  the  cellar  and  then  it  was  discovered  that 
they  had  on  male  attire  under  their  female  apparel.  After  a 
while  Daniel  Deyo,  of  Ireland  Corners  (grandfather  of  Dr. 
Abm.  Deyo),  had  the  Indians  arrested  and   found  that  they 

were  armed.     They  said  that  they  wanted  to  find  John  . 

Now  John resided  in  the  neighborhood  and  had  confessed 

to  perpetrating  an  inhuman  act  of  cruelty  upon  an  Indian 
family.  He  had  entered  an  Indian  wigwam  (just  where  Aunt 
Judy  did  not  know),  and  finding  a  squaw  and  her  pappoose 
had  asked  the  squaw  to  go  and  get  him  a  drink  of  water. 
While  she  was  gone  he  picked  up  the  papoose  and  threw  it 
into  a  pot  of  boiling  water  on  the  fire.  He  then  hid  and  es- 
caped the  fury  of  the  Indians,  who,  however,  hunted  him  for 
years.     The  Kettleborough  people  told  the  Indians  that  they 

did  not  know  who  John  was.     He  was  living,  however, 

in  the  neighborhood,  and  his  house  at  Jenkintown  is  still 
standing. 

Stolen  by  the  Indians 

Stephen  G.  DuBois  and  his  sister,  Mrs.  Hand,  tell  us  the  fol- 
lowing story  as  having  been  related  to  them  by  the  old  folks, 
but  which  must  be  simply  another  version  of  the  capture  of 
the  wife  and  children  of  the  original  Louis  DuBois,  at  King- 
ston. The  event,  as  related  to  them,  when  they  were  children, 
took  place  at  Libertyville  and  is  as  follows : 

A  woman  named  Katrina  DuBois  (they  do  not  know  her 
husband's  name)  was  carried  away  captive  by  the  Indians, 
with  an  infant  in  her  arms  and  a  child  at  her  side.     The  bus- 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  83 

band  followed  in  pursuit.  He  saw  a  savage  in  the  act  of 
drawing  his  bow.  In  his  haste  and  nervousness  he  could  i.ot 
get  the  arrow  to  fit  the  string.  Before  he  could  shoot,  DuBois 
sprang  upon  him  and  ran  his  sword  through  him  with  such 
force  that  it  struck  into  a  tree  behind  him.  This  happened 
near  Lewis  Hasbrouck's  present  residence,  in  Libertyville,  by 
the  brook  now  called  the  Stenykill.  DuBois'  wife,  not  recog- 
nizing the  pursuers,  started  to  run  with  the  Indians.  DuBois 
then  shouted  to  his  wife,  "Trene,  stop,  or  I'll  shoot  you." 
Then  she  recognized  his  voice  and  returned. 

Both  Mr.  DuBois  and  his  sister,  Mrs.  Hand,  repeat  this 
story,  positively  and  emphatically,  as  being  told  to  them  by 
the  old  people. 

Elihu  Schoonmaker  likewise  remembers  hearing  this  story 
in  his  young  days  and  says  that  a  black  oak  tree,  at  the  lo- 
cality described  above,  was  pointed  out  to  him  as  marking  the 
spot  where  DuBois  slew  the  Indian  with  his  sword. 

Some  Hunting  Stories 

One  of  the  most  interesting  chapters  of  the  history  of  New 
Paltz  might  be  given  to  the  hunting  stories  of  the  olden  times. 
One  of  the  most  undoubted  truthfulness  is  that  of  Hons  Decker, 
of  Shawangunk,  who  pursued  a  deer  from  rock  to  rock  at 
Paltz  Point,  until  it  had  descended  to  its  last  place  of  refuge 
on  table  rock,  called  by  old  people  Ephriam's  Point.  Having 
no  gun,  he  seized  the  animal  by  the  horns,  and  a  contest  of 
strength  ensued.  A  companion,  who  was  with  Decker,  cried 
out  that  the  infuriated  creature  would  fling  him  over  the  cliff, 
but  the  intrepid  man  replied  that  if  he  did  he  would  pull  him 
back.  Finally,  with  the  aid  of  his  pocket  knife,  the  prize  was 
secured. 


84  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Another  hunting  story  is  that  of  Peter  LeFevre,  grand- 
father of  the  writer,  and  Louis  Hardenburgh,  grandfather  of 
the  late  Senator  Jacob  Hardenburgh,  formerly  of  Kingston. 
Louis  was  a  sturdy  blacksmith,  his  shop  being  located  on  the 
public  highway  about  four  miles  north  of  this  village.  Peter 
LeFevre  lived  in  the  old  stone  house  still  standing  near  by. 
These  two  followed  a  bear  to  her  den  in  the  Gerhow  region, 
and  Hardenburgh  entering  the  den,  slew  the  brute — an  ex- 
ploit requiring  as  much  courage,  perhaps,  as  the  famous  ad- 
ventures of  General  Putnam  and  the  wolf.  But  another  ver- 
sion of  this  story  is  that  one  of  the  hunters  shot  into  the  den 
and  killed  the  bear  before  Hardenburgh  entered  it. 

Major  Isaac  LeFevre,  of  Swartekill,  a  famous  surveyor  in 
his  day,  was  once  employed  to  make  surveys  in  the  neighbor- 
hood of  Paltz  Point  (Sky  Top),  about  1820,  and  on  drawing 
toward  the  rockiest  portion  of  the  mountain  his  employer  ( Mr. 
Mullenix)  told  him  to  stop,  that  the  rest  of  the  mountain 
might  be  left  for  the  foxes.  Major  Isaac  asked  him  if  he 
would  give  it  to  him  for  his  day's  work.  The  reply  being  in 
the  affirmative,  he  received  twenty  acres  for  his  day's  work. 
This  he  afterwards  transferred  to  Mr.  Pell,  of  Esopus,  and  it 
is  well  settled  that  this  identical  tract  was  the  highest  part  of 
the  mountains,  which  was  never  owned  by  John  F.  Stokes 
and  was  not  secured  by  Mr.  A.  K.  Smiley  until  some  years 
after  his  purchase  of  Mohonk. 

One  day  when  Major  Isaac  Lefevre  was  going  out  on  a 
surveying  expedition  he  shot  an  elk.  He  dressed  the  animal 
and  hung  it  up  in  a  small  tree.  On  his  return  in  the  evening 
he  found  a  deer  had  been  smelling  in  the  carcass  of  the  e'.k 
and  become  fastened  by  his  horns.  He  dispatched  the  deer 
and  thought  he  had  done  quite  as  good  a  day's  work  at  hunt- 
ing as  at  surveying. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  85 

Wild  turkeys  were  found  in  the  woods  in  this  vicinity  in 
the  old  times.  Levi  Schryver  informs  us  that  the  locality  in 
Esopus,  which  still  bears  the  name  of  Calicoon  (turkey)  hook, 
was  noted  in  old  times  for  the  wild  turkeys  found  there. 

Aunt  Judy  Jackson's  stories  concerning  the  wild  animals 
that  roamed  the  forest  in  her  young  days  are  very  thrilling. 
There  were  more  wild  beasts  in  the  Libertyville  neighborhood, 
when  she  was  there,  than  in  the  Kettelborough  neighborhood, 
where  she  afterwards  lived.  Once,  in  her  childhood,  when  she 
was  a  slave  in  Jeremiah  Merritt's  family,  she  was  bringing 
home  the  cows  when  she  saw  a  panther  crouched  on  a  limb  of 
a  tree  overhead.  He  paid  no  attention  to  her  but  sprang  for 
the  cows.  He  missed  his  prey  and  the  cattle  scattered  widely, 
bellowing  as  they  ran.  Shortly  afterwards  the  panther  at- 
tacked a  cow  belonging  to  Cornelius  DuBois.  He  was  tear- 
ing her  hind  quarters  when  seen.  The  cow  was  not  dead,  but 
died  of  her  injuries.     The  panther  escaped  to  the  woods. 

When  Aunt  Judy  was  a  slave  at  Andries  P.  LeFevre's  a 
panther  was  shot  in  the  woods  of  his  father,  Philip.  The  ball 
hit  the  ferocious  beast  in  the  head.  He  made  one  tremendous 
spring  for  the  man  who  shot  him.  The  man  dodged  and  the 
panther  fell  dead  on  the  ground.  Aunt  Judy  says  that  she 
has  "seen  a  sight  of  wild  animals  in  her  day,  but  the  panther 
is  the  savagest  of  all." 

Wolves  and  bears  were  quite  numerous,  especially  on  the 
west  side  of  the  Wallkill.  Cornelius  DuBois,  the  youngest  of 
the  name,  brother  of  Josiah  DuBois  of  Poughwaughtenonk, 
had  a  narrow  escape  from  being  killed  by  wolves.  He  was 
skating  on  the  Wallkill,  alone,  when  two  wolves  came  out  of  a 
pine  woods,  on  the  east  side  of  the  Wallkill,  near  Libertyville, 
and  chased  him.  By  skating  he  kept  ahead  of  them,  but  grow- 
ing tired  he  bethought  himself  of  the  dogs  at  a  neighboring 


86  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

house,  near  the  stream.  He  whistled  to  the  dogs.  They  came 
and  fought  with  the  wolves.  The  dogs  were  killed,  but  Mr. 
DuBois  escaped  with  his  life. 

It  must  be  remembered  that  these  stories  which  Aunt  Judy 
tells  are  not  what  she  has  heard  from  older  people,  but  what 
occurred  in  the  neighborhood  while  she  lived  there. 

Cornelius  DuBois  (father  of  the  one  just  spoken  of)  owned 
land  on  the  east  side  of  the  Wallkill  and  had  a  barrack  there 
where  he  kept  sheep.  Farmers  stored  much  of  their  hay  in 
barracks  in  those  days.  Aunt  Judy  had  herself  seen  wolves 
in  pursuit  of  these  sheep. 

Bears  would  also  come  around.  At  one  time  Aunt  Judy 
noticed  that  some  animal  had  been  injuring  the  corn  in  the 
field.  She  thought  the  damage  had  been  done  by  a  cow,  but 
it  proved  to  be  the  work  of  a  bear. 

One  man  started  alone  in  pursuit  of  the  animal  and  fol- 
lowed him  to  the  mountain.  Others  followed  and  found  the 
man  dead,  having,  it  is  thought,  run  himself  to  death. 

Wild  Pigeons  and  Larger  Game 

In  those  days,  about  1820,  game  was  still  quite  abundant. 
Nearly  every  year  great  flocks  of  wild  pigeons  would  come  and 
almost  every  family  was  provided  with  nets  for  catching  them 
and  likewise  with  stool  pigeons.  Catching  pigeons  was  a 
favorite  sport.  Stephen  G.  DuBois  relates  that  one  day  as  he 
was  riding,  on  horseback,  in  company  with  about  a  dozen 
others,  to  attend  town  meeting  at  the  Paltz,  the  pigeons  passed 
over  their  heads  in  immense  numbers. 

Peter  W.  DuBois'  father,  Wilhelmus,  was  quite  a  hunter, 
and  he  and  John  Fuller,  grandfather  of  Wm.  Fuller,  killed 
many  bears  and  wolves,  before  the  digging  of  the  Delaware  & 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  FALTZ  87 

Hudson  Canal,  but  after  the  construction  of  the  big-  ditch 
these  wild  animals  did  not  venture  to  cross  it. 

One  of  the  last  wolves  trapped  by  Fuller  was  on  the  Mul- 
lenix  place  on  the  mountains.  In  this  case  Fuller  had  intended 
to  bring  the  captive  alive  to  Libertyville,  but  the  farmer  seeing 
the  destroyer  of  his  sheep  in  the  trap  exclaimed  "You  are 
the  one  that  has  been  killing  my  sheep,"  and  slew  him  on 
the  spot. 

Another  story  about  one  of  ithe  last  wolves  caught  in  this 
vicinity  is  concerning  one  caught  on  the  Mathusalem  Eltinge 
farm,  which  extended  from  Springtown  up  to  Bontecoe  Point. 
In  this  case,  too,  the  wolf  was  brought,  aUve,  in  the  trap. 

Mr.  Edward  DuBois,  of  Marlborough,  favors  us  with  an 
account  of  the  capture  of  the  very  last  wolf  in  this  portion  of 
the  country  which  was  trapped  by  Fuller  in  the  winter  of 
1826  or  '27.     Mr.  DuBois  says: 

"It  was  a  field  day  for  Libertyville.  I  was  quite  young  at 
the  time,  yet  I  recollect  his  bringing  the  beast  aUve  with  the 
trap  on  its  leg  into  my  father's  kitchen,  where  Mr.  Blake  now 
lives.  *  *  The  bronzed  hunter  and  the  captive  wolf,  the 
old  cellar  kitchen,  and  an  old  oaken  table,  upon  which  two 
terror  stricken  urchins — a  younger  brother  and  myself,  sought 
refuge,  are  among  the  clearly  defined  impressions  of  my 
childhood." 

Desperate  Fight  with  a  Bear 

Mr.  J.  Nelson  Terwilligar  gives  us  an  account  of  a  famous 
bear  hunt  that  happened  about  1820,  when  he  was  a  lad  of 
sixteen.  Henry  Williams,  a  famous  hunter,  and  another  hunter 
named  Watkins  had  followed  a  bear  all  the  way  from  Tucker's 
Corner,  through  New  Paltz,  crossing  the  Wallkill  at  what  is 


88  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

now  Luther  Hasbrouck's  place,  and  running  him  into  a  hole  in 
the  rocks  near  Bontecoe  Point.  The  hunters  went  home  and 
returned  the  next  morning.  They  found  the  bear,  who  was  a 
very  large  fellow,  and  Watkins  shot  and  wounded  him.  The 
bear  instantly  turned  and  gave  chase.  Watkins  climbed  a 
tree  but  the  bear  was  too  quick  for  him ;  seized  and  pulled 
him  down  and  got  on  top  of  him.  Then  Williams  took  a  hand 
in  the  fray  and  proceeded  to  hammer  the  bear  with  his  gun 
and  took  him  by  the  ears  to  pull  him  off  his  comrade.  Finally 
the  bear  was  killed  and  Mr.  Terwilligar  tells  us  he  had  a  piece 
of  the  meat  which  was  very  fat.  Watkins  long  bore  the  marks 
of  the  fight,  the  bear's  teeth  having  left  wounds  in  his  head 
as  large  as  a  man's  fingers. 


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89 


CHAPTER   X 


Property  Holders  at  New  Paltz  in  Early  Days 


TAXPAYERS    IN    1/12 

The  first  tax  list  which  we  have  found  is  among  the  Freer 
papers  and  is  as  follows  showing  the  amount  of  property  in 
1712: 

The  freeholders,  inhabitants,  residents  &  sojourners  of  the 
New  Paltz  in  the  county  of  Ulster,  their  real  and  personal 
estate  rated  &  assessed  on  the  i6th  day  of  January  1715  by 
the  assessors  chosen  for  the  same  on  their  oaths  to  pay  at  the 
rate  of  three  pence  half  farthing  per  pound,  to  pay  said  county 
quota,  layd  by  an  act  of  General  Assembly,  entitled  an  act  for 
the  levying  of  ten  thousand  ounces  of  plate  or  fourteen  thou- 
sand five  hundred  forty-five  Lyon  dollars : 

Abraham  Doyo £  45     Abraham  freer 25 

Christian  Doyo 50     Jacob  freer 25 

Pieter  Doyo 45     Elias  Uin 35 

Henry  Doyo 45     Solomon  Dubois 100 

Abraham  Hasbrouck  ....   200     Louis  Dubois 75 

Louys  Bevier 300    Joseph  Hasbrouck 25 

Jean  Hasbrouck 150     Tunis  Jacobse 10 

Mary  Dubois 150     Hendrick  Van  Weye 15 

Abraham  Dubois 270     Jacob  Clearwater 5 

Andrew  Lefever  &  Com-  Gerrit  Lambertse 5 

pany 240     Jan  Terpening 5 

Hugo  fifrer 75 


Total £1895 


Total  tax  £24,  13  shillings. 
A  True  Copy. 

Wm.  Notingham, 

Clerk. 


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HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  91 

The  above  list  shows  that  in  1712  four  of  the  original  Paten- 
tees were  still  alive,  namely  Abraham  and  Jean  Hasbrouck, 
Louis  Bevier  and  Abraham  DuBois,  also  Mary  widow  of  Isaac 
DuBois.  The  other  tax  payers  are  sons  of  Patentees,  namely : 
the  four  sons  of  Pierre  Deyo,  the  three  sons  of  Simon  LeFever, 
three  of  the  four  sons  of  Hugo  Freer,  two  sons  of  Louis  Du- 
Bois, Joseph,  son  of  Abraham  Hasbrouck.  The  only  other 
persons  on  the  tax  list  are  Elias  Uin  the  ancestor  of  the  Ean 
family,  who  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Anthony  Crispell 
the  Patentee,  Jacob  Clearwater,  who  was  a  brother-in-law  of 
Abm.  Deyo  and  resided  at  Bontecoe,  Jan  Terpening  who  also 
resided  at  Bontecoe,  and  was  from  Flanders ;  also  Tunis 
Jacobse  (Clearwater),  Hendrick  Van  Weye  and  Garritt  Lam- 
bertse. 

The  Building  of  the  First  Stone  Church 

The  next  list  of  this  nature  that  we  have  at  New  Paltz  is  the 
names  of  those  who  built  the  first  stone  church  in  1720  which 
is  found  in  the  French  records  of  the  church  as  follows  :  Samuel 
Bevier,  Louis  Bevier,  Jr.,  Abraham  Doyo,  Christian  Doyo, 
Henry  Doyo,  Abraham  DuBois,  Solomon  DuBois,  Louis  Du- 
Bois, Jr.,  Daniel  DuBois,  Philip  DuBois,  Andre  LeFevre,  Isaac 
LeFevre,  Jean  LeFevre,  Mary  Hasbrouck  (widow  of  Abra- 
ham the  Patentee) ,  Jacob  Hasbrouck,  Joseph  Hasbrouck,  Hugh 
Freer,  Abraham  Freer,  Jacob  Freer,  Elias  Un. 

The  last  named,  who  is  the  ancestor  of  the  Ean  family,  is 
the  only  person  not  of  the  Patentee  families  who  assisted  in 
building  the  church.  Abraham  DuBois  was  the  only  one 
of  the  Patentees  living  in  1720.  Abm.  DuBois  long  survived 
his  associates  and  Hved  until  1731. 


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HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 


Freeholders  in  1728 

The  next  list  in  point  of  time  is  found  in  the  Documentary 
History  of  New  York,  page  971,  and  contains  the  names  of  all 
the  freeholders  in  the  precinct  in  1728,  as  follows:  Samuel 
Bevier,  Christian  Devon,  Hendrick  Deyou,  Peter  Deyou,  Solo- 
mon Hasbrouck,  Jacob  Hasbrouck,  Daniel  Hasbrouck,  Hugo 
Freer,  Hugo  Freer,  Jr.,  Isaac  Freer.  Jacob  Freer,  Lewis  Du- 
Bois,  Jr.,  Solomon  DuBois,  Abraham  DuBois,  Daniel  Dubois, 
John  LeFevre,  Andries  LeFevre,  Isaac  LeFevre,  John  Terpen* 
ing,  Dirck  Terpening,  Augustus  \andemark,  Nicholas  Roosa, 
Peter  Low,  Garrit  Keetaltas,  Roeloff  Eltinge,  Esq. 

New  Paltz  Tax  Payers  in   1728 

The  following  list  of  New  Paltz  taxpayers  in  1728  is  in  the 
county  clerk's  office  at  Kingston : 


Elsie   Djou    [widow   of 

Abraham]    £  23 

Christian  Djou 30 

Hendricus  Djou 30 

Peter  Djou 19 

Jacob  Deyo  [Jacobus  ?] .  .  i 

]\Ioses  Deyo i 

Solomon  Hasbrouck  ....  42 

Daniel  Hasbrouck 62 

Jacob  Hasbrouck 92 

Andries  LeFevre 40 

Jan  LeFevre 52 

Isaac  LeFevre 31 

Hugo  Freer 69 

Jacob  Freer 6 

Hugo  Freer,  Jr 12 

Jonas  Frere i 

Widow  of  Elias  Fan 20 


Peter  Low 5 

Solomon  DuBois 69 

Louis  DuBois 6y 

Abraham  DuBois 193 

Daniel  DuBois 99 

Abraham  Clearwater   ...  i 

Jan  Terpenning 10 

Samuel  Bevier 95 

Louis  Bevier 26 

August  Vandemark 2 

Anthony  Westbrook 4 

Roelif  Elting,  Esq 10 

Nicholas  Roosa 13 

Mattys  Slecht 10 

Col.  Jacob  Rutson   (non- 
resident)      5 

Garret  Keeteltas 5 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  93 

List  of  Slaveholders  in   1755. 

The  next  list  of  property  holders  of  any  kind  that  we  find 
is  a  list  of  slaveholders  in  1755  in  the  Documentary  History 
of  New  York.  Samuel  Bevier,  Philip  Bevier,  Jacobus  Bevier^ 
Abm.  Bevier,  Christian  Doyo,  Abm.  Doyo,  Peter  Doyo,  Jr.^ 
Sarah  Hasbrouck  (widow  of  Solomon),  Benjamin  Hasbrouck 
(Wallkill),  Daniel  Hasbrouck,  Jacob  Hasbrouck,  Lewis  Du- 
Bois,  Solomon  DuBois,  Benj.  DuBois,  Hendricus  DuBois,. 
Simon  DuBois,  Hugo  Freer,  Isaac  Freer,  Mary  LeFevre 
(widow  of  Isaac),  Petronella  LeFevre  (widow  of  Simon),. 
Nathaniel  LeFevre,  Abm.  LeFevre,  Andries  LeFevre,  Abm.. 
Hardenburgh.  Geesje  Ean  (widow  of  Jan),  Anetje  Vande- 
mark,  Noah  Eltinge,  Capt.  Josiah  Eltinge. 

Abm.  Hardenburgh  and  Solomon  DuBois  each  owned  7 
slaves,  Simon  DuBois  6  and  others  a  less  number.  The  list 
shows  that  in  1755  all  the  sons  of  the  Patentees  were  dead 
except  Solomon  and  Louis  DuBois,  Jr.,  Samuel  Bevier,  Daniel 
and  Jacob  Hasbrouck. 

Value  of  the  Precinct  of  New  Paltz  in  1765 

We  copy  from  a  collection  warrant  dated  at  Kingston,  Au- 
gust 27,  1765,  the  list  given  below  of  the  estimated  value  of 
the  real  and  personal  estates  of  the  precinct  of  New  Paltz. 
The  warrant  was  signed  by  "Dirck  Wynkoop,  Jr.,  John  Du- 
mond,  Charles  Dewit,  Elias  Depuy,  Abraham  Hardenburgh, 
Johannis  H.  Jansen  and  John  Wandle — Supervisors  elected 
and  chosen  for  the  several  towns,  manor  and  precincts  of 
Ulster  county."  It  was  issued  to  raise  money,  pursuant  to  an 
Act  to  raise  £52,000  for  paying  1,715  men  to  be  employed  in 
an  expedition  a^-ainst  the  French  fort  at  Crown  Point  and 
against  the  Indians;    and  to  raise  £100,000  for  paying  the  ex- 


94  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

penses  of  2,600  for  the  invasion  of  Canada ;  and  also  to  raise 
i 1 00,000  and  £60,000  for  like  purposes  under  other  Acts.  One 
hundred  and  thirteen  pounds,  three  shillings  eight  pence  and 
one-fifth  of  a  farthing  was  the  amount  to  be  collected  from  the 
precinct  of  New  Paltz.  This  precinct  then  included  the  pres- 
ent town  of  New  Paltz,  the  whole  of  Lloyd  and  parts  of  the 
towns  of  Rosendale,  Esopus  and  Gardiner. 

The  warrant  directed  that  after  the  tax  was  collected  it 
should  be  lodged  in  the  hands  of  Col.  Abraham  Hasbrouck, 
county  treasurer,  retaining  the  fees. 

In  1765  there  were  only  six  Townships  in  the  entire  county, 
viz :  Kingston,  Marbletown,  Hurley,  Rochester,  Shawangunk 
and  New  Paltz. 

Dirck  Wynkoop,  Jr.,  represented  Kingston ;  Abraham  Har- 
denburgh,  New  Paltz ;  Johannes  H.  Jansen,  Shawangunk ; 
Elias  Depuy,  Rochester.  The  remaining  three  Supervisors, 
viz :  John  Dumond,  Ch.  Dewitt  and  John  Wandle  must  have 
represented  the  towns  of  Hurley  and  Marbletown  and  a  pre- 
cinct or  manor  not  yet  organized  into  a  Township. 

An  estimate  or  list  of  all  the  estates  real  and  personal  of  all 
the  freeholders  and  inhabitants  of  the  precinct  of  New  Paltz 
in  1765: 

NAMES.  VALUE.  NAMES.  VALUE 

Peter  Dujou £31  s  i  Johannis  Dujou £  9  s  o 

John  Terwilliger 14  2  Petrus  Low 7  o 

Abraham   Harden-  Abraham  Bevier 50  2 

burgh 65  16  Gerret  Frere 7  5 

Abraham  Hasbrouck  Jacobus  Bevier 10  o 

(for  his  farm)  ....    71  3  Benjamin  DuBois.  ...  29  to 

Hendricus  Dubois  ...  .    55  10  Johannis  Dujou,  Jr. .  .  4  10 

Philip  Dubois 8  o  Solomon  Low 3  10 

Cornelius  Dubois 65  12  Jonas  Frere 25  o 


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95 


NAMES.  VALUE. 

Christopher  Dujou    .  .ii5  si'? 

Christiaen  Dujou,  Jr. .      i  5 

Moses  Dujou 7  o 

Jacobus  Hasbrouck. .  .    13  2 

Johannis  Frere 15  8 

Benjamin  Frere 8  4 

Hugo  Frere i  5 

Jacob  Frere 12  o 

Hugo  Frere,  Jr 16  16 

Benjamin  Dujou 16  o 

David  Akker 12 

The  estate  of  Marynus 

Van  Aken 2  10 

Daniel  Lef ever 17  o 

Petrus  Lef  ever 21  12 

Johannis  Lefever 24  12 

Abraham  Ken 18  17 

Nathaniel  Dubois  ....    23  o 

Jacob  Hasbrouck,  Jr. .   65  o 

Abraham  Dujou 50  o 

Matthew  Lefever i  18 

Simon  DuBois 42  o 

Marritie  Dubois    (wi- 
dow)        4  o 

Josiah  Eltinge 66  15 

Roloff  J.  Eltinge i  3 

Abraham  Eltinge.  ...      3  12 

Petronella  Lefever ...     5  o 

Andries  Lefever,  Jr...    14  o 

Winetie  Hasbrouck. .  .   48  5 

Johannis  M.  Low.  ...      6  12 


NAMES.  \'ALUE. 

Abraham  Vandemark  .£951 

Benjamin  L  Frere..  .  .    10  10 

Petrus  Hasbrouck. ..  .    12  16 

John  Hasbrouck 12  10 

Lewis  Bevier 19  2 

Nathaniel  Lefever  ....  23  o 

Catholinetie  Lefever .  .     3  o 

Noah  Eltinge 49  5 

Dominie   Monriches 

Geotschius i  8 

Lewis  Dubois 17  15 

Abraham  LeFever...  21  10 

Andries  Lefever 27  12 

Samuel  Schoonmaker.     i  o 

Petrus  Schoonmaker..      i  o 
Catholinitie    Bevier 

(widow)   I  10 

George  Stover i  16 

Frederick  Hyms 4  o 

Joseph  Griffen 3 

Joseph  Terwilliger ...     6  10 

Jonathan  Terwilliger.    16  2 

Isaac  Frere 14  10 

Joseph  Frere 3  10 

Petrus  Van  Wagenen.     8  10 
Abraham  Van  Wage- 
nen       I  13 

Abraham  Donaldson..   17  14 

Michael  De  Vou 3  o 

Robert  Hurs 5 

David  Auchmoody ...  5 


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HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 


NAMES. 

VALUE. 

Thomas   Woolsey.  , 

■  •■£  5 

s  5 

Israel  Koole 

.  .       2 

I 

Alexander  Mackey. 

I 

2 

James  Turtle 

I 

17 

John  Woolsey 

5 

Peter  Koleman 

6 

James  Wheeler  .  . .  . 

2 

7 

James  Hurta 

14 

Murry  Lester 

16 

Valuntine  Parkus.. 

.  .       2 

16 

Ebenezer  Gilbert .  . 

•••    5 

0 

Ebenezer  Parkus .  . , 

I 

4 

Livelet  Hubble 

••     3 

8 

Christiaen  Dujou..  . 

I 

12 

Richard  Monion.  .  . 

Michael  Palmiter.  . 

13 

Anthony  Yarnton.  . 

I 

18 

Abraham  Brister.  .. 

••     3 

6 

Johannis  Presslar.  . 

I 

15 

Jadediah  Dean 

I 

8 

Simon  Crandle 

I 

0 

William  Ellsworth . 

12 

NAMES.  VALUE. 

Oliver  Gray i       sio 

Phelick  Ransom 2  17 

Nathaniel  Wyard ....  i  o 

Abraham  Hass 15 

Lewis  Pontinear i  o 

Robert  Sergeant i  12 

Joseph  Coddington ...  4  o 

Daniel  Dujou 2  7 

Abm.   Dujou,   for  the 

estate  where  his  son 

Daniel  lives  on 5  o 

Jacob  DuBois 15  o 

James  Hue i  o 

Martinus  Bakeman  .  . .  6 

Moses  Nap i  o 

Hendrick  Wasemiller.  4 

Petrus  Vandemerk. .  .  10 

Daniel  Frere i  12 

Christiaen  Achtmoemy  i  o 

William  Frere I  6 


Total  value ^i,354  si8 

This  assessment  roll  is  valuable,  not  only  as  showing  who 
were  taxpayers  and  the  amount  of  each  assessment  in  1765, 
but  it  is  still  more  useful  because  with  the  aid  of  some  cor- 
roborating evidence,  we  are  able  to  determine  where  nearly 
all  of  the  larger  taxpayers  lived. 

It  is  evident  that  the  assessor  in  making  out  the  roll  com- 
menced at  the  south  bonds  of  the  precinct  as  it  then  was  at 
what  is  now  Tuthill  and  continued  on  the  west  side  of  the 
Wallkill  until  reaching  the  north  bounds  of  the  Patent  at  Mud 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  97 

Hook;  then  crossing  the  Wallkill  returned  to  the  village  on 
the  east  side  of  the  stream  and  then  passed  on  south  to  the 
Plains  and  Kettelboro;  thence  east  to  Jenkintown  and  the 
Freer  patent,  and  finally  picked  up  the  small  taxpayers  along 
the  Hudson  River  and  elsewhere. 

As  far  as  the  Huguenot  names  on  the  roll  are  concerned  it 
must  be  remembered  that  in  this  list  we  are  dealing  with  the 
grandsons  of  the  Patentees. 

Commencing  with  the  first  name  on  the  list,  Peter  Deyo  is 
the  son  of  Hendricus  and  lived  at  Tuthill  where  he  had  de- 
scendants living  until  modern  times.  Peter  and  his  son  had  a 
patent  for  land  in  Shawangunk. 

Abraham  Hardenbergh,  who  was  Supervisor  and  one  of  the 
heaviest  taxpayers  lived  in  a  stone  house,  recently  tumbled  into 
ruins,  just  below  Tuthill.  Here  the  family  had  a  large  tract 
of  land.  Abraham  Hardenbergh's  grandsons  Abraham  and 
Jacob,  were  the  last  of  the  name  to  occupy  the  land  of  their 
ancestors,  Abraham  living  in  the  fine,  old  brick  house  near  the 
Guilford  church  and  Jacob  on  the  old  homestead,  where  Crines 
Jenkins  who  married  Jacob's  daughter  Rachel  afterward  lived. 

Abraham  Hasbrouck  who  comes  next  and  is  assessed  for 
the  heaviest  amount  is  Col.  Abraham  Hasbrouck  of  Kingston. 
This  farm  at  Guilford  is  still  owned  in  the  family.  Col. 
Abraham  Hasbrouck  was  probably  the  most  prominent  man  in 
the  county  in  his  day. 

Hendricus  and  Cornelius  DuBois  are  brothers,  sons  of  Solo- 
mon. Philip  is  Hendricus'  son.  Hendricus  lived  on  the  Capt. 
Jacob  M.  DuBois  place  of  our  day,  Cornelius  a  short  distance 
south  of  where  Capt.  W.  H.  D.  Blake  now  lives,  Philip  kept 
a  public  house  at  Libertyville.  Cornelius  and  Hendricus  were 
men  of  large  means  and  influential  in  the  community  as  their 
descendants  are  at  the  present  day. 


98  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Abraham  and  Jacobus  Bevier  are  brothers,  sons  of  Samuel 
and  grandsons  of  Louis  the  Patentee.  Abraham  lived  just 
south  of  Butterville.  His  wife  was  Margaret,  daughter  of 
Roelif  Eltinge,  the  first  of  the  name  at  New  Paltz.  Their 
son  Abraham  moved  to  Chenango  county. 

Benjamin  DuBois  was  the  first  of  the  name  at  Springtown 
and  his  descendants  still  reside  there  and  until  recently  a  little 
further  north.  Benjamin  is  the  son  of  Daniel  and  grandson 
of  Isaac  the  Patentee. 

Jonas  Freer  is  the  son  of  Hugo,  senior,  and  grandson  of  the 
Patentee.  Jonas  lived  at  Kline  Bontecoe  on  what  is  now  the 
R.  V.  N.  Beaver  place.  His  descendants  reside  in  various 
places  in  this  vicinity.  Garret  Freer  is  the  nephew  of  Jonas 
and  son  of  Hugo,  jun.  of  Bontecoe. 

Christopher  Deyo  lived  at  Springtown.  He  is  the  brother 
of  Peter  and  Johanes.  whose  names  have  appeared  on  the  list 
and  of  Benjamin,  w^hose  name  comes  later.  Christopher  is 
the  ancestor  of  Rev.  Paul  T.  Deyo. 

Moses  Deyo  is  the  son  of  Christian  and  grandson  of  Pierre 
the  Patentee.  He  and  his  son  Christian,  Jr.  reside  where  their 
descendants  have  since  lived  and  near  where  James  E.  and 
Matthew  Deyo  now  reside. 

Jacobus  Hasbrouck  is  the  son  of  Solomon.  He  probablv 
owned  the  Simon  L.  DuBois  farm.  At  any  rate  his  son  Ben- 
jamin owned  it  and  gave  a  life  estate  in  it  to  his  son. 

We  have  now  come  to  the  Freer  settlement  at  ]\Iud  Hook 
and  Bontecoe.  Hugo  jun.  is  the  son  of  Hugo,  sen.,  Jacob  is 
his  cousin.     Hugo,  John  and  Benjamin  are  Hugo,  jun.'s  sons. 

The  assessor  having  crossed  the  Wallkill,  at  what  is  now 
Perrine's  Bridge,  is  coming  southward  on  the  east  side  of  the 
stream. 

Benjamin  Deyo.  who  is  the  ancestor  of  the  Bontocoe  Deyos, 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  99 

occupies  the  house  of  his  father  Hendricus,  which  is  known  as 
the  Abm.  W.  Deyo  farm  in  our  day. 

The  three  LeFevres,  Daniel,  Petrus  and  Johannes,  are  sons 
of  Isaac,  the  first  of  the  name  at  Bontecoe. 

Abraham  Ean  is  the  son  of  Jan  and  grandson  of  Elias. 
His  farm,  which  is  still  owned  in  the  family  joined  the  LeFevre 
estate  on  the  south  as  it  does,  to-day. 

Here  the  assessor  makes  a  break  and  inserts  the  name  of 
Nathaniel  DuBois,  who  built  the  first  mill  at  Libertyville  and 
is  the  son  of  Jonathan  and  grandson  of  Louis,  jun. 

Right  here  should  come  the  names  of  Petrus  and  John  Has- 
brouck,  sons  of  Solomon,  which  do  not  appear  on  the  roll  until 
a  little  later.  Petrus  owned  and  occupied  what  is  now  the 
Walsh  house  at  Middletown  and  John  the  old  stone  house  of 
his  father,  a  short  distance  south,  which  tumbled  into  ruins 
about  1870. 

We  are  now  back  to  the  village. 

Jacob  Hasbrouck,  Jr.  built  at  a  later  date  the  house  where 
his  greatgrandson  Abm.  M.  Hasbrouck  now  lives,  but  in  1765 
he  was  living  and  quite  certainly  keeping  a  store  in  what  is 
now  the  Memorial  House. 

Abraham  Deyo  (2)  lived  in  the  homestead  in  this  village, 
which  passed  from  one  Abraham  to  another  and  is  now  owned 
by  Abm.  Deyo  Brodhead. 

Simon  DuBois  is  the  son  of  Daniel  and  grandson  of  Isaac 
the  Patentee.  He  occupied  the  house  now  owned  by  his  de- 
scendants, Mary  DuBois  Berry's  daughters,  which  has  always 
been  in  the  family  and  is  the  oldest  house  in  the  village. 
Maritje  (widow)  who  is  assessed  for  a  small  amount  is  Simon's 
mother. 

Josiah  Eltinge  owned  and  occupied  the  house  still  called 
the  "Eltinge  Homestead,"  and  Roelif  J.  and  Abraham  are  his 


100  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

sons.  Here  Roelif  J.  kept  a  store  in  Revolutionary  times. 
Abraham  afterward  lived  in  the  house  about  a  mile  north  of 
the  village,  which  has  ever  since  been  in  the  family  and  where 
his  great  grandson  S.  L.  F.  Elting  now  lives. 

Andries  LeFevre,  Jr.,  who  is  the  last  of  that  line  of  LeFevres, 
lived  with  his  mother  Petronella  in  the  old  homestead,  since 
torn  down,  in  the  north  part  of  the  present  church  yard. 

Winetie  Hasbrouck  is  the  widow  of  Daniel,  son  of  Abraham 
the  Patentee.  She  lived  with  her  six  sons  directly  across  the 
street  from  the  present  church  building  and  the  house  is  still 
owned  in  the  family. 

Johannes  M.  Low  lived  in  the  house  which  had  come  to  him 
from  his  father-in-law  Hugo  Freer,  Sn.  and  this  is  still  stand- 
ing, being  the  most  northern  of  the  old  stone  houses  on  the 
street. 

The  next  two  names  on  the  list,  Abraham  Vandemark  and 
Benj.  I.  Freer,  we  can  not  place. 

The  next  name,  Lewis  Bevier,  puzzles  us,  as  there  was  no 
person  of  the  name  at  New  Paltz.  Possibly  the  Bevier  home- 
stead in  this  village  had  not  yet  been  bought  by  Josiah  Eltinge 
and  belonged  to  Louis  Bevier  of  Marbletown  or  Louis  of 
Wawarsing. 

Nathaniel  LeFevre  lived  on  the  Plains  in  the  house  of  his 
father  Jean.  His  mother  Carolintje  and  his  son  Matthew,  who 
afterward  occupied  the  place,  are  assessed  for  small  amounts. 

Noah  Elting  is  the  brother  of  Josiah.  He  Hved  on  the 
estate  where  his  father  Roelif  had  lived  in  his  old  age  and  where 
Edmund  Eltinge  lived  in  our  day. 

Dominie  Moriches  Goetchius  was  the  minister  of  the  churches 
at  New  Paltz  and  Shawangunk  from  1760  to  1771,  living  at 
Shawangunk,  where  he  died  in  1771. 

Lewis  DuBois  is  the  Capt.  Lewis  J.  DuBois  of  Revolutionary 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  loi 

times.  His  house,  a  frame  building,  is  still'  standing,  south  of 
the  Libertyville  ford  on  the  east  side  of  the  Wallkill  and  is 
now  owned  by  his  descendant,  Henry  L.  DuBois. 

Abram  and  Andries  LeFevre  are  brothers  and  the  pioneers 
at  Kettelboro. 

The  assessor  now  turns  east.  The  two  Terwilligers,  Joseph 
and  Jonathan,  lived  we  think  on  the  Plattekill,  east  of  Jenkin- 
town. 

Isaac  and  Joseph  Freer  owned  the  next  farm  on  the  north. 
This  is  the  Freer  patent  and  some  part  still  owned  in  the 
family. 

Petrus  Van  Wagenen  is  the  ancestor  of  all  the  Van  Wage- 
nens  in  New  Paltz.  He  lived  in  a  stone  house,  still  standing 
but  not  occupied,  about  a  mile  north  of  Put  Corners. 

Abraham  Donaldson  probably  lived  at  Elmore's  Corners,  as 
the  Donaldson  family  located  there  at  an  early  date. 

David  and  Christian  Auchmoody  are  sons  of  Jeems  Auch- 
moody,  the  first  of  the  name  at  New  Paltz. 

Most  of  the  other  names  are  for  small  amounts.  Some  of 
them  we  recognize  as  the  ancestors  of  people  in  Highland  and 
vicinity :    Devoe,  Mackey,  Palmatier,  Pressler,  Wisemiller. 

Phelick  Ransom  lived  at  Highland  and  was  afterward  a 
captain  in  the  Revolutionary  army. 

Jacob  DuBois  lived  near  Tuthill  and  had  in  1757  pur- 
chased a  tract  lying  on  both  sides  of  the  Wallkill  includ- 
ing the  island  at  Tuthill.  His  son  Isaac  kept  his  home- 
stead and  his  son  Jacob  lived  where  Gardiner  village  now 
is.  His  old  home  was  a  short  distance  south  of  Kingston. 
He  was  probably  the  son  of  Isaac  DuBois  who  was  of  Kings- 
ton and  his  wife  Neiltje  Rose,  as  they  had  a  son  Jacob,  bap- 
tised in  1733.  Isaac  was  the  son  of  Jacob  of  Hurley,  who 
was  one  of  the  seven  sons  of  Louis  the  Patentee. 


102  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Joseph  Coddington  was  the  village  schoolmaster  in  those 
days. 

Daniel  Deyo  lived  a  short  distance  north  of  what  is  now 
Ireland  Corners  and  is  the  ancestor  of  that  branch  of  the  Deyo 
family.  Daniel's  father  Abm.  who  resided  in  this  village,  still 
owned  the  farm  in  1765. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  103 


CHAPTER  XI 

The  Contract  of  1744 

In  this  contract  the  owners  of  the  patent,  34  in  all,  bind 
themselves  each  to  the  other  for  fifteen  years  to  pay  all  assess- 
ments made  by  the  twelve  men  for  expenses  in  defending  the 
claim  of  title  of  any  owner.  The  document  is  in  English  and 
is  here  transcribed  verbatim  et  literatim. 

Articles  of  agreement  Indented  had  made  concluded  and 
agreed  upon  This  Twenty  Third  Day  of  may  In  the  Seven- 
teenth Year  of  The  Reign  of  our  Sovereign  Lord  George  The 
Second  by  the  Grace  of  God  of  Great  Brittain  France  and 
Ireland  King  Defender  of  the  faith  &c.  annoq,  Domini  1744 
Between  The  Persons  Whose  names  are  hereunder  Written 
and  Seals  affixed  and  Who  Executed  The  Same  In  Due  form 
of  Law.  Whereas  Edmund  Andross  Esq.  Seigneur  of  Sans- 
maraz  Lieut,  and  Governour  Generall  under  his  Royal  High- 
ness James  Duke  of  York  and  Albany  etc.  of  all  his  Terri- 
tories In  America.  By  his  Letters  Patent  bearing  Date  The 
Twenty  Ninth  Day  of  September  In  the  Year  of  our  Lord 
1677  Did  Give  Rati f ye  Confirm  and  Grant,  Conformable  To  an 
Indian  purchase  From  The  Indian  Propriators  unto  Lewis 
DuBois  and  Partners  (That  is  to  say)  Christian  Duyow  Abra- 
ham Hasbroucq  Andries  Lefever,  Jean  Hasbroucq,  Pierre  Duyo, 
Laurens   Beveir,   Anthony   Crespell,  Abraham  Dubois,   Hugo 


I04  HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z 

Frere,  Isaac  Dubois  &  Simon  Lefever  Their  heirs  and  assigns 
All  That  Certain  piece  of  Land  Lyeing  on  The  South  Side  of 
the  Rondout  Creek  or  Kill  Begining  From  the  High  Hills 
Called  Moggonck  and  Now  known  by  The  name  of  The 
High  Point  on  The  mountains  commonly  called  the  Paltz 
point  From  Thence  Stretching  South  East  Near  The  Great 
River  To  a  Certain  Point  or  hook  Called  The  Juffrous  Hoocke 
Lyeing  In  The  Long  Reach  named  by  the  Indians  Magatramis 
Being  a  Little  Distance  To  the  Northward  from  the  Place 
where  the  Late  Dwelling  House  of  Denis  Raelje  Deceased 
stood  where  it  is  Fixed  by  Virtue  of  a  warrant  By  Cadwallader 
Colden  Esq.  To  him  Directed  as  Surveyor  General  For  the 
Province  of  New  York,  Then  North  up  along  The  River  to  an 
Island  In  a  Crooked  Elbow,  In  The  begining  of  The  Land 
Reach  Called  Little  Esopus  Island  and  by  the  Indians  Raphoes 
Then  West  on  the  High  Hills  To  a  place  Called  Waratahaes 
and  Tawarataque  and  known  by  The  name  of  Northwest  bounds 
being  at  the  North  End  of  The  mountain  and  Severall  marks 
There  made,  and  soe  along  The  Said  High  Hills  South  west 
To  Moggonck  or  The  High  Point  aforesaid  To  Hold  unto  Tne 
Said  Lewis  Dubois  and  Partners  Their  heirs  and  assigns  For- 
ever, And  Whereas  We  The  Subscribers  who  Have  hereunto 
Set  our  hands  and  affixed  our  Seals  being  owners  and  Inter- 
tested  In  The  aforesaid  Pattent  or  Tract  of  Land  and  In  order 
To  Keep  and  Prepare  The  Said  Tract  of  Land  unto  us  and  our 
heirs  and  assigns  Forever,  From  being  Incroached  upon  by 
any  Person  or  Persons  Whatsoever  we  Shall  Each  of  us  and 
Every  one  of  us,  or  our  heirs  Exs.  admin,  and  assigns  advance 
And  Dishurs  So  much  money  To  make  a  Common  Stock  To 
Defend  The  before  Recited  Tract  of  Land,  and  Every  one 
Shall  but  advance  or  Disburse  So  much  money  according  to 
The  Share  proportion  or  Interest  he  or  She  hath  in  Said  Tract 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  105 

of  Land  and  so  according  To  a  Greater  and  Lesser  Quantity 
So  In  proportion  And  Whereas  When  Such  money  or  moneys 
Shall  be  or  must  be  Disbursed  or  advanced  as  often  as  It  Shall 
Happen,  To  and  for  the  Defence  of  before  Recited  Patent  If 
it  Should  happen  To  be  Disputed  by  any  one  of  us  or  our  heirs 
and  Assigns  Whether  It  is  Requisite  and  necessary  for  any 
Such  Sum  or  Sums  of  money  To  be  Disbursed,  It  Shall  (and 
It  Is  hereby  agreed  To  and  between  The  said  Parties)  That  it 
must  be  Determined  Then  by  the  Twelve  men  or  The  Major 
Part  of  Them  Who  are  annually  Chosen'  by  the  Inhabitants  of 
aforesaid  Patent  on  the  First  Tuesday  in  April  by  Virtue  of 
an  Instrument  In  writing  bearing  Date  The  Twenty  first  Day 
of  April  annoq.  Domini  1728  Reference  being  Thereunto  had 
may  more  fully  and  at  Large  appear  1 1  And  That  the  True 
Intent  and  meaning  of  the  Present  Articles  be  no  ways  Frus- 
trated, it  is  hereby  Further  Covenanted,  Concluded,  Granted 
and  agreed  upon  by  and  between  The  Said  Parties  That 
Whereas  union  is  the  Strength  of  all  Copartnerships  for  their 
own  Generall  and  Respective  advantage  and  Safety  they  Doe 
oblidge  themselves  their  heirs  and  assigns,  to  defend  Joyntly 
the  Whole  tract  above  mentioned  and  to  Stand  In  mutuall  de- 
fence of  Each  other  Lot  or  Lots  farm  and  Farms  against  all 
Incroachment  and  Pretences  of  Right  to  the  Same  for  Ever 
From  any  Person  or  Persons  Whatsoever  For  Fifteen  whole 
and  Consecutive  years  From  the  Date  of  these  Presents  And 
Now  For  the  True  Performance  of  all  and  Singular  the  pres- 
ent articles  and  every  one  of  them,  The  Parties  to  these  pres- 
ents Doe  hereby  bind  Each  one  to  each  other  and  their  heirs 
Execs,  and  adms.  Respectively  In  the  Penall  Sum  of  Two  Hun- 
dred Pounds  Currant  Lawfull  money  of  the  province  of  New 
York  Payable  by  the  nonperformers  To  the  others  1 1  In  Witness 
whereof  the  parties  to  these  present  articles  have  Respectively 


io6 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 


Set  their  hands  and  affixed  their  Seals  the  Day  and  year  above 
written. 


his 
Matthys  x  Van  Keuren 

mark 
Hend.  Sleight 
his 
(s.)  Isaac  X  Frere  (s.) 

mark 
(s.)  Jacob  hasbrouck  (s.) 
(s.)  Isaac  le  Fevre  (s.) 
(s.)  Aenrei  dieo  (s.) 

his 
(s.)  Hugo  X  Frere  Jun  (s.) 

mark 
(s.)  Jacob  Frere  (s.) 
(s.)  Jonas  Frere  (s.) 
(s.)  Louis  bevier  (s.) 


(s.)  Antho  Slecht  (s.) 

(s.)  Jan  Slecht  (s.) 

(s.)  Antoney  Crespell  (s.) 

(s.)  Johannes  Crespell  (s.) 
Roeloff  Eltinge  (s.) 
Yean  le  Fevre  (s.) 
Abraham  doian  (s.) 
Daniel  Dubois  (s.) 
Samuel  Bevier  (s.) 
Josia  Eltinge  (s.) 
daniel  hasbroecq  (s.) 
johannis  maty  jun  (s.) 

his 
John  T  Terpenning  (s.) 

mark 
Solomons  hasbrouq  (s.) 


Sealed  and  Delivered  In  presence  of  us 


Abraham  Van  Der  Merkan 
A  Hasbrouck  36 


memorandum  anthony  Sleght 
Jan  Sleght,  anthony  Crespell,  Johannis  Crespel,  Mathias  Van 
Keuren  and  Hendricus  Sleght  have  signed  Sealed  and  Deliverec 
this  within  Instrument  In  presence  of  us 

Jacob  Hasbrouck  Junr. 
A  Hasbrouck. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  107 

Civil  Government 

In  its  civil  government  New  Paltz  at  an  early  period  in- 
cluded not  only  the  entire  southeastern  portion  of  Ulster  county 
as  it  is  at  present,  but  a  considerable  portion  of  Orange  county 
likewise.  From  page  23  of  Ruttenber's  History  of  Orange 
county  we  quote :  "Immediately  north  of  Murderer's  Creek 
there  was  no  civil  organization  until  the  advent  of  the  Pala- 
tines in  1709,  when  the  precinct  of  the  Highlands  was  erected 
and  attached  to  New  Paltz.  The  boundaries  of  the  precinct 
are  not  stated  but  the  order  is  understood  to  have  applied 
more  especially  to  the  territory  extending  from  New  Paltz  to 
Murderer's  Creek,  in  which  district  the  Palatines  of  Quassaick 
were  then  the  principal  settlers.  At  the  same  time  or  soon 
after  the  constitution  of  the  precinct  of  the  Highlands,  and 
evidently  by  order  of  the  court  the  precincts  of  Maghagh- 
branch  and  Shawangunk  were  constituted,  the  latter  attached 
to  New  Paltz.  As  in  the  case  of  the  precinct  of  the  High 
lands  no  boundaries  are  given,  but  from  deeds,  tax  rolls  and 
other  papers  of  record  it  is  clear  that  the  present  towns  of 
Montgomery,  Crawford  and  Wallkill  were  embraced  in  the 
limits  of  the  precinct.  Under  this  limited  organization  the 
territory  which  these  precincts  covered  remained  until  1743, 
when  by  act  of  Dec.  17  three  full  precincts,  having  all  the 
officers  of  towns  and  exercising  all  their  duties  were  estab- 
lished by  act  of  the  Assembly." 

Neighborhoods  Annexed  to  New  Paltz 

The  precinct  of  the  Highlands  was  bounded  on  the  west 
by  the  precincts  of  Wallkill,  Shawangunk  and  the  "neighbor- 
hoods annexed  to  New  Paltz."  These  neighborhoods  were 
the  Louis   DuBois  patent,  the  Guilford  patent,   the  Thomas 


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Garland  patent  at  Kettelborough  and  Ireland  Corners  and  the 
Hugo  Freer  patent  of  1200  acres  on  a  portion  of  which  Zach. 
Freer  lived.  The  territory  of  these  "neighborhoods  annexed 
to  New  Paltz"  is  thus  described :  "Guilford  and  several  other 
patents,  from  the  south  bounds  of  New  Paltz  to  the  north 
bounds  of  Shawangunk  precinct  and  from  the  foot  of  the 
high  mountains  eastward  to  the  east  line  of  the  patent  granted 
to  Thomas  Garland  and  by  the  south  and  east  by  the  land 
granted  to  Hugh  Freer  and  others  and  to  the  eastward  by 
an  east  line  from  the  said  Hugh  Freer's  bounds  to  the  bounds 
of  town  of  New  Paltz." 

Payments  of  Rent  and  Taxes 

During  all  the  Colonial  period  the  payment  of  rent  con- 
tinued. The  following  in  the  Dutch  language,  among  the 
papers  in  the  Patentees'  trunk,  is  a  sample  of  the  receipts  given : 

Received  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  New  Paltz  one  year's  quit 
rent  being  thirty-five  bushels  of  good  winter  wheat  delivered 
to  me  in  Kingston  1710  November  18.  J.  hardenbergh. 

It  is  stated  that  one  year  the  Freers  paid  the  entire  quit 
rent  due  from  the  New  Paltz  people  and  in  return  were  given 
a  tract  of  .200  acres  at  Mud  Hook. 

Besides  the  quit  rent,  which  was  paid  in  wheat,  taxes  for 
special  purposes  were  levied  as  shown  by  the  following  samples 
of  tax  warrant  and  receipt : 

Tax  Receipt 

New  York  26  May  1716. 

Then  Received  of  Mr.  Daniel  Duboy  &  Hugh  Frera  Jun. 
Collectors  of  New  Paltz  Ulster  County  the  Sume  of  Eleven 


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Pounds  Fifteen  Shillings  &  3d  Tax  &  for  ye  Treasurers  Salary 
Six  Shill.  Being  on  ye  fifth  &  Sixth  Payment  wch.  will  be 
payable  ye  Last  Day  of  this  Instant  May  and  ye  Last  Day 
of  Novem.     Next  Ensuing  on  ye  iioooo  Tax  I  say  Rec  by  n-.e. 

A.  D.  Peyster. 
Reeded  in  the  book  of  Receipts, 
No.  A  Folio  21. 

Wm.  Nottingham,  Clk. 

The  tax  warrant  is  directed  to  the  assessors  of  New  Paltz 
dated  1746,  and  is  signed  by  Jan  Eltinge,  Jean  (or  Johannes) 
Hardenberg,  Jr.,  Johannes  De  Witt,  Abraham  Hardenberg, 
Jacobus  Bruyn,  Charles  Clinton  and  Cadwalder  Colden,  Jr., 
supervisors  of  the  several  towns  manors  and  precincts : 

"Pursuant  of  an  act  of  General  Assembly  of  the  Province 
of  New  York,  made  in  the  present  Nineteenth  year  of  his 
majestic  Reign,  Entitled  an  act  for  raising  a  supply  of  the 
sum  of  thirteen  thousand  pounds  by  a  tax  on  Estates  Real  and 
Personal  for  the  more  effectual  fortifying  this  Colony,  etc." 


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CHAPTER  XII 

A  Short  Historical  Memorandum 

The  first  attempt  at  writing-  anything  of  a  historical  nature 
concerning  New  Paltz  that  we  have  seen  is  contained  in  the 
following  paper,  written  by  grandfather  Peter  LeFever  and 
dated  1830. 

One  leaf  of  the  original  seems  to  be  torn  ofif  and  the  memo- 
randum begins  abruptly  as  follows : 

"It  appears  they  settled  in  what  is  now  called  the  old  village 
and  it  is  said  they  all  laboured  together  and  cleared  their  lands 
at  first  and  afterwards  divided  the  cleared  lands  by  parole, 
without  deed. 

On  the  25th  day  of  August.  1703,  some  of  the  original  pro- 
prietors were  then  dead :  the  survivors  met  together  and  con- 
veyed by  their  deed,  bearing  the  above  date,  to  each  Patentee 
then  living  his  proportion  of  the  cleared  land  in  their  possession 
as  the  same  had  been  divided  by  parole,  and  also  his  undivided 
twelfth  part  of  the  whole  patent ;  and  also  conveyed  to  the 
legal  representatives  of  the  original  patentees  who  were  then 
dead,  the  full  share  of  their  ancestors. 

Andries  Lefever  having  died  without  lawful  issue,  Simon 
Lefever  being  dead,  they  conveyed  to  Andries  Lefever,  Isaac 
Lefever,  John  Lefever  and  ]\Iary  Lefever.  the  three  sons  and 
daughter  of  Simon  Lefever,  all  the  lots  and  parcels  belonging 
to  them  from  their  father  Simon  Lefever  and  from  their  uncle 
Andries  Lefever ;  and  also  one  fifth  part  of  their  grandfather's 
land    (Christeyan   Deyou.   usually   called    Grcvidpcrc)    as   the 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  in 

same  had  been  laid  out  and  divided  by  parole  and  then  in  their 
possession ;  together  with  two  twelfth  parts  and  one  fifth  of  a 
twelfth  part  of  the  whole  patent  of  all  the  lands  not  yet  laid 
out  and  divided. 

Simon  Lefever  had  been  married  to  Elizabeth  Deyou,  daugh- 
ter of  the  said  Christeyan  Deyou,  called  Grandpere  in  the 
French  language,  which  means  grand-father,  who  had  devised 
to  his  son  Peter  and  his  four  daughters  each  one  fifth  part  of 
his  land.     His  son  Peter  was  also  a  patentee. 

The  widow  of  Simon  Lefever  afterwards  married  Moses 
Cantine,  who  was  also  a  French  refugee,  by  whom  she  had  one 
son,  viz.  Peter  Cantine,  Esq.,  to  whom  the  Patentees  gave  no 
share  of  the  land  of  his  mother,  who  thought  he  ought  to  have 
shared  in  his  mother's  land.  (Peter  Cantine  was  my  mother's 
father.) 

The  Patentees  afterwards  entered  into  an  article  in  writing 
to  elect  at  their  annual  town  meeting  twelve  men  to  represent 
the  twelve  Patentees — one  from  the  descendants  of  each  Paten- 
tee, who,  to  entitle  them  to  that  office  must  be  a  descendant  of 
such  Patentee  he  represented  and  a  freeholder  by  heirship  in 
such  Patentee's  share. 

These  "Twelve  Men,"  so  called,  had  their  by-laws,  kept  a 
book  and  record  of  their  proceedings,  made  divisions  of  the 
whole  patent  (except  some  land  on  the  north  side  of  the  patent 
and  some  other  small  lots)  and  entered  their  proceedings 
in  a  book. 

These  "Twelve  Men"  were  also  empowered  by  another  bond, 
or  instrument  in  writing  to  defend  the  boundaries  of  the  patent 
and  to  raise  money  for  that  purpose  from  the  representatives 
of  the  Patentees,  according  to  their  several  rights. 

Shortly  after  the  Revolutionary  war  it  was  discovered  that 
the  divisions  made  by  the  "Twelve  Men"  were  not  lawful,  and 


112  HISTORY  OF  XEW  PALTZ 

void.  They  then  petitioned  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of 
New  York  to  confirm  such  division  (which  was  done  by  an  act 
of  the  Legislatyre)  and  directed  their  book,  wherein  they  had 
recorded  their  division,  to  be  deposited  in  the  office  of  the 
county  of  Ulster,  where  it  now  remains,  and  a  certified  copy 
of  the  act  confirming  said  division  is  now  in  the  possession  of 
my  son,  Daniel. 

The  '"Twelve  2^Ien"  continued  to  be  elected  until  about  the 
year  1820.  Their  colter,  and  copy  of  the  book  wherein  the 
records  of  the  di\'ision  is  entered,  and  patent,  and  sundry  rec- 
ords and  other  patents  was  left  in  the  care  of  Ezekiel  Eltinge." 

]\Iatters  Submitted  to  \'oters 

Rev.  -\me  A'ennema  has  compiled  from  papers  in  the  Paten- 
tees" trunk  the  following  list  of  matters  submitted  to  voters 
during  the  period  of  ten  years  from  1756  to  1766,  showing  how 
close  was  the  union  of  church  and  State  at  New  Paltz  in  those 
colonial  days : 

In  1756  3  '"chimmily  Vewers"  were  elected,  and  the  "fine 
on  ye  chimmilis'"  fixed  at  3d. 

In  1757  \\'hether  the  money  received  for  the  collectorship 
should  be  applied  "on  the  Highway"  or  "to  the  use  of  the 
church.'"     The  latter  was  preferred,  the  amount  was  44s.,  6d. 

In  1758  \Miether  the  money  rec'd  for  the  office  of  Collector 
should  be  applied  "to  the  benefit  of  the  church  of  the  New 
Paltz,"  or  "on  the  Highway."  or  "given  to  the  clerk  of  the 
New  Paltz  church  for  the  time  being""  or  "half  to  the  church 
and  half  to  the  clerk." 

The  result  was  in  favor  of  the  first  proposition.     Amount  46s. 

In  1759  ^^'hether  the  money  received  for  the  collectorship 
shall  be  given  to  the  clerk  of  the  church,  to  the  poor,  or  used 


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for  the  purchase  of  a  '"pall."  The  result  is  thus  recorded,  "By 
Plurahty  of  Voices  it  is  carried,  That  the  money  given  for  the 
Collectorship  shall  be  Applyed  for  buying  a  Pall  for  the  Pre- 
cinct of  the  New  Paltz,  And  there  is  Bid  for  the  Collectorship 
the  sum  of  ^y  shillings.  And  Tis  Agreed  that  the  Deacons  of 
the  New  Paltz  church  shall  be  Managers  for  Procuring  said 
Pall  as  aforesaid,  who  are  to  buy  said  Pall  as  soon  as  said 
money  shall  come  in." 

In  1760  A\'hether  the  money  of  the  Collectorship  should  be 
applied  in  Part  "to  a  Pall  and  the  Remainder  for  a  Silver 
Beaker"  (chalice)  or,  in  part  to  a  "Pall  and  the  Remainder  to 
a  Bare  to  Cary  the  Corps  of  the  Dad  to  the  Grave." 

The  result  of  the  election  was  that  it  "be  applyd  to  Bie  a  Pall 
and  the  over  Plush  to  Bie  a  Silver  Beaker  to  the  use  and  Benefit 
of  the  New  Paltz  Preseinct ;  and  there  is  Bid  for  the  Collector 
Ship  the  Sum  of  68s.  by  Jonathan  Terwilliger,  and  paid.^ 

1 761  It  was  decided  by  vote  that  the  money  of  the  Col- 
lectorship be  used  to  purchase  "a  Silver  Cup  for  the  use  of  the 
Reformed  Dutch  Church  at  the  New  Paltz" — 

That  Sheep  may  not  have  free  Running  but  must  be  kept. 
The  fine  for  pounding  sheep  to  be  not  4d  but  3d. 

1762  Noe  Eltinge  was  elected  for  a  "Commissioner  to 
Lay  out  Highway." 

\'alentine  Perkins  for  "pownder  for  ye  River,  and  Josaphat 
Hasbrouck  for  pownder  for  ye  Paltz." 

1763  The  money  for  the  Collectorship  was  "voted  to  be 
Applyed  to  pay  the  Assessors  for  their  Trouble  for  the  En- 
suing Year." 

In  1764  It  was  submitted  to  the  voters  "Whether  there  shall 
be  Five  overseers  of  the  Roads,  or  two." 

Whether  a  Pound  shall  be. made  "adjoining  the  South  East 
side  of  the  Land  of  Abraham  Bevier,  at  the  Orchard." 


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The  money  of  the  Collectorship  shall  go  to  the  Assessors. 

1765  Whether  Pound  Masters  shall  be  elected  or  ''every 
man  be  his  own  Pounder." 

It  was  decided  by  vote :  "That  the  Poundage  of  Horses  and 
Horned  Cattle  shall  be  2s.  a  head." 

That  the  fences  be  "4  foot  6  inches  High,  post  and  Rales 
Fence,  to  have  4  Rales." 

1766  Of  the  25s.  rec'd.  for  the  Collectorship  it  was  voted 
that  3s.  be  paid  to  the  Constables  the  residue  to  the  Assessors. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  115 

CHAPTER  XIII 

The  First  Manufacturing  Industry  in  Southern  Ulster 

The  brook  which  now  runs  so  quietly  through  the  northern 
suburbs  of  our  village  is  still  called  the  Mill  brook,  but  for 
many  years  no  mill  has  marked  its  course  to  the  Wallkill. 
However  this  brook  was  in  by  gone  days  the  propelling  power 
of  no  less  than  three  mills  located  at  different  points  and  built 
at  dift'erent  times  in  the  history  of  New  Paltz.  About  a  mile 
north  east  of  the  village  are  the  remains  of  an  old  saw  mill 
on  this  brook.  The  stone  dam  and  a  portion  of  the  timbers 
are  still  to  be  seen.  The  situation  is  in  a  romantic  glen  and 
the  place  is  well  worth  a  visit.  This  mill  was  used  in  sawing 
logs  as  late  as  1855. 

Half  a  mile  further  down  the  brook,  near  the  present  resi- 
dence of  ^Ir.  Wm.  E.  DuBois,  are  the  remains  of  another  dam. 
Here  there  was  a  grist  mill  erected  at  an  early  date  which  con- 
tinued in  use  until  about  1820.  Here  Isaac  DuBois,  grand- 
father of  the  late  John  W.  DuBois,  carried  on  the  milling 
business  shortly  after  the  Revolutionary  war,  and  here  the  late 
Nathaniel  DuBois  of  Shivertown  carried  on  the  business  about 
1820.  At  about  that  date  the  mill  ceased  running  and  New 
Paltz  people  after  that  time  took  their  grain  to  the  mill  at 
Liberty ville  or  the  mill  just  erected  at  Dashville. 

Still  further  down  this  brook,  almost  directly  north  of  the 
residence  of  John  \\^'nkoop,  on  Mulberry  street,  may  be  found 
the  grass  grown  remains  of  a  much  older  mill  dam,  which 
has  recently  been  rebuilt  and  a  large  pond  formed  and  an  ice 
house   built.     Here   in   the   earlv   davs   of   the   settlement   the 


ii6  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Huguenot  pioneers  of  New  Paltz  took  their  grain  to  be  manu- 
factured into  flour.  On  this  spot  Daniel  Hasbrouck,  son  of 
Abraham  Hasbrouck,  the  Patentee,  had  a  mill  as  early  as  1730. 
In  a  document  of  that  date,  bearing  the  signature  of  Hugo 
Freer,  Sen.,  son  of  Hugo  the  Patentee,  reference  is  made  to 
the  lane  on  the  north  bounds  of  the  old  village,  "leading  to  the 
mill  of  Daniel  Hasbrouck.''  This  property  remained  in  the 
possession  of  Daniel  Hasbrouck's  descendants  until  quite  a 
recent  date.  Tradition  says  that  this  mill  was  for  the  grind- 
ing of  grain,  but  there  may  have  been  a  saw  mill  connected 
with  it.  The  brook  does  not  give  abundant  water  power,  but 
probably  it  furnished  all  that  was  needed  for  the  infant  settle- 
ment. This  ancient  mill  may  have  been  erected  quite  a  num- 
ber of  years  previous  to  1730,  but  we  have  no  evidence  on 
that  point.  First  in  the  history  of  New  Paltz,  after  the  settle- 
ment of  1677,  came  the  organization  of  the  church  in  1683 
and  the  erection  of  the  church  building.  Next  in  importance 
was  the  education  of  the  children,  and  in  1689  and  perhaps  at 
an  earlier  date  there  was  a  schoolmaster  at  New  Paltz.  The 
next  enterprise  to  claim  attention  would  naturally  be  a  mill, 
and  we  have  documentary  evidence,  amply  confirmed  by  the 
still  remaining  earthwork  of  the  dam  and  by  tradition  among 
the  descendants  of  Daniel  Hasbrouck,  that  this  was  the  spot 
to  which  in  ancient  times  the  Xew  Paltz  people  brought  their 
wheat  to  be  manufactured  into  flour. 

It  was  no  doubt  the  first  manufacturing  industry  established 
in  Southern  Ulster. 

Soldiers  ix  the  Coloxial  Period 

The  report  of  State  Historian  Hugh  Hastings  comprising 
volume  I,  of  the  Colonial  series  contains  a  complete  list  of  all 
soldiers  in  the  Colonial  period,  subsequent  to  1700. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  117 

The  first  New  Paltz  name  in  point  of  date  is  tliat  of  Abra- 
ham Hasbrouck  who  received  his  commission  as  lieutenant  of 
a  company  of  foot  for  New  Paltz  and  Kingston  August  30, 
1685.  In  1689  he  was  appointed  as  "captain  of  foot  at  Ye 
Palz,  Ulster  county." 

Under  the  date  of  1700  in  a  foot  company  appear  the  namci 
of  the  following  officers :  Abm.  Hasbrouck,  captain ;  Moses 
Quantin,  lieut. ;   Lewis  Bevier,  ensign. 

In  the  list  of  volunteers  to  march  to  the  invasion  of  Canada 
in  171 1  in  Captain  Wessel  Tenbrook's  company  appear  the 
names  of  Isaacq  Hasbrouck  and  Jean  Lefeber. 

In  171 5  in  the  list  of  the  troop  under  the  command  of  Capt. 
John  Rutzen  appear  the  following :  Anthony  Crispell,  Lowis 
Dubois,  Jun.,  corporal  Louis  DuBois,  Solomon  Hasbrouck, 
Daniel  Hasbrouck,  Daniel  Dubooy,  Philip  DuBois,  Jacob  Has- 
brouck. 

At  the  same  date  in  the  same  regiment  in  Capt.  Vernooy's 
company  (Wawarsing  and  Rochester)  appear  the  following 
names :  Lieut.  David  Dubois,  Samuel  Bevier,  Abraham  Bevier, 
Jan  Bevier. 

At  the  same  date  in  the  same  regiment  in  Capt.  Johannes 
Schepmoes'  company  for  the  town  of  Hurley  appear  the  fol- 
lowing :   Lieut.  Jacob  Dubois,  Jan  Crispell. 

At  the  same  date  in  the  same  regiment  in  Capt.  Nicholas 
Hoffman's  company  for  Kingston  we  find  the  following : 
Roeloff  Elting,  William  Elting,  Peter  Cantyn,  Louis  DuBois, 
Jun.,  Louis   Matthyse  DuBois,  Jan  Freer,  Johannes  Crispel. 

In  a  Dutchess  county  company  under  date  of  171 5  appears 
the  name  of  Peiter  DuBoy. 

The  next  year,  1716,  in  Capt.  Hofifman's  company  a  large 
number  of  New  Paltz  names  appear  as  follows :  Sergeant 
abream  deyou,  Lieut.  Andries  Lowerre,  insign  Lewis  Lowies 


ii8  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Jun.  aberam  de  boys,  aberam  ferer,  yakop  ferer,  hendrick 
deyoo,  elyas  yu,  kriteyon  de  you,  Ysack  leferer,  piter  daow, 
Hyge  Abaram  fere,  Ysack  fere,  Symon  ferer,  Benjamin  du 
boois,  benjamin  hasberck,  yoel  debois,  Yan  lefever. 

The  above  can  quite  readily  be  recognized  as  the  names  of 
the  sons  of  the  Patentees  by  combining  the  Christian  name  with 
the  family  name  in  each  case.    But  the  spelling  is  unusually  bad. 

In  1 7 17  in  a  list  of  miUtia  officers  for  Ulster  county  the 
names  of  the  officers  for  New  Paltz  and  Shawangunk  are  as 
follows  :  Capt.  Zach.  Hofifman,  Lieut.  Andries  Fever,  ensign, 
Louis  Bevier,  Jun.  The  name  of  Jacob  Dubois  appears  in  a 
list  of  the  Hurley  company,  in  171 7. 

In  a  list  of  eight  companies  of  an  Orange  county  regiment 
of  foot  militia  in  1738  Nathaniel  Dubois'  name  appears  as 
captain  of  the  fifth  company. 

In  a  list  of  officers  and  soldiers  in  LTlster  County  militia  In 
1738  under  Capt.  Johannes  Ten  Broock  appear  the  following 
New  Paltz  names :  corporal  Solomon  Haesbrock,  Jacob  Haes- 
brock,  Samuel  Bovie,  Jan  Ffreere,  Daniel  Dubois,  Daniel  Haes- 
brock, Johannes  DuBois. 

The  following  of  New  Paltz  ancestry  appear  in  1738  as  foot 
soldiers  of  the  corporation  of  Kingston :  corporal  Nathan  Du- 
bois, Jacobus  Dubois,  Jr.,  Solomon  Freer,  Johannes  Dubois, 
Hiskiah  Dubois,  Gerrett  Freer,  Jacobus  De  loo,  Isaac  Dubois. 

In  the  same  date,  1738,  Lewis  Bevier's  name  appears  in  the 
Marbletown  company  of  militia. 

At  the  same  date  in  the  Rochester  company  appear  the  names 
of  Lieut.  Philip  DuBois  and  Josaphat  Dubois,  Louis  Bovier, 
Jr.,  Cornelius  Bovier,  Samuel  Bovier,  Jr.,  and  Jacob  Bovier. 

At  the  same  date  (1738)  in  the  list  of  militia  of  the  foot 
company  of  New  Paltz  (which  then  stretched  down  into 
Orange  county)  under  Capt.  Zacharias  Hoffman,  are  the  fol- 


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lowing:  Sergt.  John  Freer,  corporals,  Christian  Deyo,  Hen- 
drick  Deyo.  Isaac  Lefever;  privates,  Isaac  freer,  Jan  Une, 
Jonas  freer,  James  Agmodi,  Simon  Lefever,  Josiah  Elting, 
Abra.  Dujo,  Cornelius  Dubois,  Jonathan  Dubois,  Hendr  Dubois, 
Moses  Dujo,  Isaac  Haasbrouck,  Jacob  Haasbrouck,  Jun., 
Benja  Haasbrouck,  Jun.,  Abra.  Bovier,  Mathues  Bovier, 
Jacobus  Bovier,  Isaac  Bovier,  Abra  Lefever,  Nathael  Lefever, 
Benja  Haasbrouck,  Symon  Dubois,  Isaac  Lefever,  Junr.,  Peter 
Dejo,  Huge  Freer,  Junr.,  Lewis  Sa.  Bovier. 

In  1758  in  the  roll  of  Stephen  Nottingham's  company  ap- 
pear the  following :  Jacob  S.  Freer,  Jacob  Freer,  Wilhelmus 
Crispel. 

Coats  of  Arms  in  Huguenot  Families  at  New  Paltz 

It  is  highly  probable  that  all  of  the  Huguenot  settlers  at 
New  Paltz  had  coats  of  arms.  The  count  de  Vermont,  who 
is  a  recognized  authority  on  this  subject,  says  that  previous 
to  1789  not  only  the  nobility  in  France  but  most  families  of 
the  "bourgeois"  had  regularly  registered  coats  of  arms  record- 
ing some  distinguished  action  on  the  part  of  the  bearer  or  his 
ancestors. 

Most  descendants  of  the  early  settlers  of  New  Paltz  have 
taken  little  interest  in  the  matter  of  coats  of  arms  and  we  have 
not  considered  it  in  our  province  in  writing  a  history  of  New 
Paltz  from  1678  to  1820  to  enter  into  the  subject  at  any  length, 
because  during  that  period  the  matter  of  coats  of  arms  is  not 
alluded  to  in  any  records  that  we  have  seen  or  in  any  tradition 
that  we  have  heard. 

Of  late  years  some  interest  has  been  shown  in  the  subject. 

Many  years  ago  Gen.  Geo.  H.  Sharpe  found  at  Brussels  a 
coat  of  arms  of  the  Hasbrouck  family,  a  copy  of  which  he 


I20  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

brought  with  him  to  his  home  in  Kingston.  In  the  Memorial 
House  at  New  Paltz,  among  the  other  rehcs  is  a  coat  of  arms 
of  the  Bevier  , family.  In  the  LeFevre  family  there  are,  we 
are  told,  three  coats  of  arms,  one  of  which  belonged  to  the 
LeFevres  of  Paris  and  the  others  to  certain  families  of  the 
name  in  other  parts  of  France.  The  name  Deyo  is  thought 
by  one  authority  to  be  the  same  as  de  Joux,  which  name  wrs 
borne  by  a  princely  family,  whose  castle  and  home  was  in 
Franche  Comte.     This  is  of  course  mere  surmise. 

The  coat  of  arms  of  the  DuBois  family,  as  certified  by  the 
count  de  Vermont,  is  thus  described : 
I 

Argent,  a  lion  rampant  sable,  armed  and  langued  gules. 
Crest,  between  two  tree  stumps :  Vert,  the  lion  of  the  shield. 
IMotto — Tieus  ta  /03'— (Hold  to  thy  faith). 

On  page  39  of  the  DuBois  Reunion  book,  in  the  paper  read 
at  the  Reunion,  written  by  Dr.  Henry  A.  DuBois  of  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  appears  a  cut  of  what  is  denominated  "Original 
DuBois  Arms" :  Or,  an  eagle  displayed  sable,  peaked  and 
clawed  gules. 

Another  coat  of  arms  which  has  a  curious  history  is  that 
which  has  come  down  in  the  family  of  Abram  DuBois,  who 
moved  from  New  Paltz  to  New  Jersey  and  was  the  son  of 
Abraham  the  Patentee  and  grandson  of  Louis  the  Patentee. 
This  coat  of  arms  was  found  pasted  in  an  old  book,  published 
in  1707,  which  had  come  down  from  father  to  son  in  this 
branch  of  the  DuBois  family.  A  greyhound  is  a  prominent 
figure  in  the  coat  of  arms.  The  motto  is  "Honestas  est  optima 
polita."     The  name  "Duboys"  appears  on  the  coat  of  arms. 

We  note,  lastly,  the  coat  of  arms  on  the  old  silver  snufif  box, 
which  has  come  down  in  the  family  of  Solomon  DuBois,  son 
of  Louis  DuBois  the  Patentee.     This  box  is  in  itself  a  very 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  i2i 

valuable  relic.  It  bears  on  one  side  the  names  of  different 
owners  in  the  DuBois  family  and  dates,  the  most  ancient  being 
1707.  On  the  other  side  is  a  coat  of  arms.  Mr.  Patterson 
DuBois  in  the  DuBois  Reunion  book  says  "While  the  one  side 
of  the  box  may  have  meant  'nobility'  to  our  ancestor  the 
simple  blazon  of  a  name  and  date  (1707)  on  the  other  side  is 
our  title  to  the  truer  nobility  of  the  soul,  which  our  Huguenot 
fathers  have  bequeathed  us  in  the  annals  of  an  heroic  devotion 
to  their  faith."  Mr.  William  E.  DuBois  of  New  Paltz  is  now 
the  owner  of  the  box  and  has  placed  it  with  the  other  relics  in 
the  Memorial  House. 

There  will  probably  always  be  difference  of  opinion  among 
the  descendants  of  Louis  DuBois  the  Patentee  as  to  which  of 
the  four  coats  of  arms  above  noted  is  that  of  their  ancestor. 
The  predilections  of  the  writer  would  naturally  be  in  favor  of 
that  which  has  come  down  in  the  family  of  his  grandmother 
and  the  other  descendants  of  Louis'  son  Solomon. 


122  HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z 


CHAPTER  XIV 

Tories  in  the  Revolution 

Among  the  papers  of  Gen.  George  Clinton,  published  by  the 
State  in  book  form,  in  1899,  appears  an  account  of  the  pro- 
ceedings of  a  general  court  martial,  held  at  Fort  Montgomery, 
April  30,  1777,  and  continued  several  days  for  the  trial  of  a 
number  of  tories  who  had  been  captured  while  on  their  way 
to  join  the  British  army. 

At  this  court  martial  Col.  Lewis  DuBois  was  president  and 
15  captains  and  2  lieutenants  were  members,  among  the  number 
Capts.  Hasbrouck,  Bevier  and  Hardenbergh. 

It  appears  from  the  proceedings  of  the  court  martial  that  a 
certain  Lieut.  Jacobus  Rose  by  the  offer  of  a  bounty  and  the 
assurance  that  King  George  would  soon  win,  got  together  a 
body  of  36  men  in  the  neighborhood  of  Shokan  and  Shandaken. 

They  started  to  join  the  British  army,  traveling  by  night  and 
taking  with  them  their  guns  and  provisions  for  4  to  5  days. 
They  crossed  the  Esopus  and  Rondout  creeks  and  the  Sha- 
wangunk  mountains.  They  came  into  the  precinct  of  New 
Paltz  at  what  is  now  Mountain  Rest  and  passed  down  the 
mountain  to  the  ford  at  Cornelius  DuBois'  place,  now  Capt. 
W.  H.  D.  Blake's.  One  Wouter  Slouter  was  their  guide  to 
the  ford. 

While  crossing  the  Shawangunk  mountain  they  had  been 
told  that  scouting  parties  were  out  to  apprehend  them.  This 
was  true,  for  about  a  dozen  or  fifteen  of  the  neighbors  in  New 
Paltz  had  got  together,  placing  sentries  at  the  dififerent  roads 
where  they   crossed   the  Wallkill — at   Peter   Deyo's    (Tuthill) 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  12^ 

at  Isaac  Low's  ( Liberty ville)  and  at  Cornelius  DuBois',  where 
Capt.  W.  H.  D.  Blake  now  resides.  At  the  last  named  place 
Tunis  Van  Vliet  and  Jacob  Freer  were  stationed,  sitting  under 
an  apple  tree,  guarding  the  road  leading  to  the  ford. 

Rose  and  his  party  came  upon  them  suddenly  in  the  night 
and  took  them  prisoners,  then  crossed  the  Wallkill  in  two 
canoes,  repeated  trips  being  necessary  for  the  purpose.  On  the 
east  side  of  the  Wallkill  the  tories  were  challenged  by  Lieut. 
Terwilligar,  who  was  at  once  fired  upon  by  one  of  Rose's  fol- 
lowers and  wounded  in  the  arm.  Terwilligar  escaped  and  so 
did  Tunis  Van  Vliet,  who  had  been  taken  prisoner  on  the  west 
side  of  the  stream.  Both  proceeded  to  Noah  Elting's,  and 
procured  horses  and  a  man  in  order  that  the  news  might  be 
sent  post  haste  to  Newburgh  and  our  army  warned  of  the  ap- 
proach of  the  tory  band.  It  is  a  proof  of  the  strict  discipline 
in  our  army  that  Tunis  Van  Vliet  was  afterwards  arrested  and 
sent  to  Fort  Montgomery  for  not  having  more  promptly  raised 
the  alarm  and  aroused  the  rest  of  the  guard,  only  150  yards 
away,  this  delay  on  his  part,  after  his  escape,  giving  the  tories 
time  to  get  their  whole  band  across  the  Wallkill  in  safety. 

Rose  and  his  party  traveled  on,  reaching  Alex.  Campbell's 
that  night  and  staying  there  the  next  day.  The  next  evening 
they  went  to  the  barn  of  Arthur  McKinney  and  staid  there  the 
next  day  and  night.  Here,  near  Little  Britain,  they  learned 
that  it  was  impossible  to  get  through  our  lines.  Shortly  after- 
wards they  were  attacked  bv  50  of  our  militia,  who  had  been 
sent  out  to  meet  them.  Several  of  the  tories  were  killed,  a 
large  proportion  were  taken  prisoners  and  a  few  escaped  for 
the  time  being. 

The  court  martial,  after  due  consideration  sentenced  16  of 
the  tory  band,  including  those  who  had  given  them  aid  and 
comfort  on  the  route,  to  be  hanged.     Seven  of  the   16  were 


124  HISTORY  OF  NEIV  PALTZ 

recommended  for  mercy.  Subsequently  14  others  of  the  band 
received  the  same  sentence,  a  few  of  the  number  being  recom- 
mended for  mercy.  The  charge  against  a  portion  of  the  num- 
ber was  "levying  war  against  the  United  States  of  America" 
and  with  those  who  had  helped  them  along  the  route  "giving 
aid  and  comfort  to  the  enemies  of  the  State  of  New  York." 

This  sentence  was  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Conven- 
tion, which  met  at  Kingston  May  3d.  Gen.  Clinton,  in  a  letter 
to  the  President  of  the  Convention  says,  "The  inhabitants  are 
so  much  irritated  by  the  conduct  of  the  prisoners  in  marching 
armed  in  a  body  to  join  the  enemy  that  I  fear  they  will  soon 
take  the  law  in  their  own  hands  against  them."  He  urges 
that  a  severe  example  should  be  made  of  those  tories.  With 
a  few  exceptions  the  Convention  approved  the  action  of  the 
court  martial  and  no  doubt  it  was  promptly  carried  into  effect 
so  far  as  Rose  and  one  at  least  of  his  companions  were 
concerned. 

On  May  5th  Capt.  John  A.  Hardenbergh,  who  was  of  Guil- 
ford, writes  from  New  Paltz  to  Gen.  Clinton  that  in  pursu- 
ance of  his  orders  he  arrived  at  home  on  Saturday  evening, 
got  all  the  men  together  he  could  and  scoured  the  mountain  in 
search  of  those  of  Rose's  party  who  had  escaped.  They 
found  two  men,  hidden  under  a  great  rock,  who  confessed 
having  belonged  to  his  band.  The  next  day  he  went  to  another 
mountain  where  he  found  the  party  of  Capt.  Broadhead  who 
had  also  captured  three  of  the  band.  All  the  prisoners  were 
sent  under  guard  to  Fort  Montgomery. 

Old  Frame  Houses 

•  Until  the  time  of  the  Revolution  there  were  few^  frame 
houses  built  in  this  part  of  the  country  and  stone  houses  con- 
tinued to  be  erected  until  about  the  beginning  of  the  last  cen- 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  125 

turv.  The  oldest  frame  house  in  this  vicinity  we  beheve  is 
that  now  owned  by  Henry  L.  DuBois,  near  Libertyville.  This 
house  in  Revohitionary  times  was  owned  and  occupied  by 
Capt.  Louis  J.  DuBois,  son  of  Jonathan  and  grandson  of  Louis 
Jr.  From  Capt.  Louis  J.  it  passed  to  his  son  Louis  and  from 
him  to  his  son  John  L.  of  whom  it  was  purchased  by  the  pres- 
ent owner,  Henry  L.  DuBois,  who  is  also  one  of  the  very  large 
number  of  descendants  of  Capt.  Louis  J.  DuBois.  The  old 
house  has  been  re-sided  and  repainted  since  it  was  built  but  the 
great  beams  are  as  of  old. 

Perhaps  the  oldest  frame  house  in  this  village  is  the  one  on 
Huguenot  street,  directly  south  of  the  church  yard.  This  was 
occupied  about  1800  by  Lucas  Van  Wagenen.  Another  old 
frame  house  is  the  one  on  the  farm  now  owned  by  Richard 
S.  Deyo,  about  a  mile  north  of  this  village,  which  was  owned 
by  Peter  W.  A.  Freer.  On  this  farm  his  father  Elias  and  his 
grandfather  Jonas  lived,  but  the  latter  resided  in  the  stone  house 
on  the  east  end  of  the  farm. 

A  Famous  Old  Oak 

The  old  oak  tree  at  the  residence  of  Mr.  A.  M.  Lowe  on  the 
Paltz  Plains  is.  the  largest  and  no  doubt  the  oldest  tree  in  this 
part  of  the  county.  Mr.  Edmund  Eltinge  tells  us  that  in  the 
old  days  when  regimental  training  was  held  on  the  Plains 
there  were  other  old  oaks  a  little  farther  to  the  west  on  the 
brow  of  the  hill.  Under  these  the  sutlers'  booths  were  pitched 
on  training  days.  One  of  these  old  oaks  was  sawed  down 
many  years  ago.  Mr.  Eltinge  counted  the  rings  in  the  tree 
and  found  there  were  478,  showing  that  the  tree  had  attained 
that  great  age.  The  one  still  standing  is  probably  full  500 
years  old. 


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HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  127 

How  They  Crossed  the  Wallkill 

An  ancient  document,  recently  come  to  light,  is  of  interest 
as  showing  how  our  great-grandfathers  crossed  the  Wallkill, 
before  any  bridge  had  been  built  at  this  village.  The  names 
which  are  subscribed  to  the  document  we  recognize  as  the 
great-grandfathers  of  the  New  Paltz  people  of  the  present  day. 
The  document  is  as  follows : 

We  the  Subscribers  of  these  Presents,  Do  Promise  to  pay 
to  Roelif  J.  Eltinge  of  the  Precinct  of  the  New  Paltz  in  the 
County  of  Ulster  and  State  of  New  York,  the  Respective 
Sums  of  money  assigned  and  affixed  to  our  respective  names, 
For  the  use  herein  after  mentioned,  viz.  to  Build  a  Skow  or 
flat  to  ferry  across  the  Wall  kill  at  the  town  of  the  New  Paltz, 
where  the  oald  Skow  was  kept  Before,  and  to  be  made  of  good 
Yallow  Pitchpine  Wood,  Except  the  Ribs,  to  be  of  good  White- 
oak  wood  4  by  five  to  lay  9  inches  apart,  and  the  Length  of 
Said  Skow  to  be  28  feet,  and  the  Breadth  11I/2  feet  (out  Side 
work)  the  Botom  3  inches  thick,  and  the  Sides  4  inches  thick, 
and  15  inches  Broad  in  the  midel,  and  to  rise  4  inches  at 
each  end  from  the  main  Botom  and  allso  to  Provide  a  good 
Rope  to  hall  the  Said  Skow  across  by,  and  to  fix  everything 
belonging  to  Said  Skow  in  good  order  and  then  to  Set  the 
Said  Skow  With  the  appurtenances  up  at  publick  vendue  to 
the  highest  Bidder  living  in  the  town  and  the  highest  Bidder 
is  to  be  the  Ferry  man  for  one  year  then  Next  ensuing,  and  to 
have  the  Care  thereof  and  to  keep  it  in  order,  and  to  take  ferry- 
age  money  of  all  those  that  have  no  Right  in  Said  Skow,  and 
those  that  have  not  Paid  for  the  Liberty  of  using  it.  Except 
those  that  are  Comeing  to,  and  going  from  Devine  Service  in 
the  town  of  the  New  Paltz,  and  Every  Subscriber  is  to  have 
free  Liberty  to  ferry  any  of  his   friends   or   Relation   across 


128 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 


With  Said  Skow  Provided  he  Does  not  take  ferryage  money 
for  it,  and  the  money  arising  by  the  Sail  of  the  Said  Skow  or 
ferry  and  for  the  Sail  of  the  Liberty  of  useing  it,  is  to  be 
applied  annually  to  the  Repair  of  Said  Skow  and  Rope  and  if 
not  Wanted  for  that  purpose,  to  be  returned  to  the  Subscribers 
in  Proportion  to  their  Subscription,  and  the  Said  ferry  man 
is  to  Provide  a  good  Lock  that  Whensoever  the  kill  Rises  So 
high,  that  the  Said  Skow  cannot  be  used  with  the  Rope  he 
may  Lock  the  Said  Skow  (in  the  night)  and  every  Subscriber, 
and  those  that  have  Liberty  to  use  it,  Will  be  obliged  to  fetch 
the  kee  at  his  house  and  Return  it  there  again,  as  soon  as 
possible.  In  Witness  Whereof  each  of  us  have  hereunto  Set 
our  hand  this  20th  day  of  Jany  1791. 


£     s  d 

losiah  Hasbrouck  &   ) 

[.200 

Jacob  Hasbrouck,  Jr   ) 

Roelof  Josias  Eltinge.  200 

Andrias  Lef ever,  Jun .  i    10  o 

George  Wertz 2     00 

Philip  Doyo i     00 

Abraham  Doyo i     00 

Simeon  Low o  100 

Daniel  Dubis  Junr  &  ) 

I  2     o  o 
Joseph  Dubois ....     ) 

Jesais  Hasbroucck.        080 

Received    of    Andries 

Lefever  for 

Christophol  Doyo.  .  .  .   o     40 

Mathusalem  Dubois.  .040 

Joseph  Hasbrouck. .  .  .   o     40 

Samuel  Bevier o     32 


£  s  d 

Abraham  Eltinge  .  . .  .   o  40 
Cornelius  Dubois  Junr  040 

Isaac  Dubois o  40 

Mathew  Bevier o  40 

Christiaen  Doyou .  . .  .   o  30 

David  Hasbrouck .  . .  .   o  40 

^793 
Rec.  of  Ezekiel  Eltinge 
for   being   a    ferry 

man o  14  o 

Ezechol  Eltinge o     60 

Richard  mckinly O     20 

Isaac  Bodeyn   (mend- 
ing chain) o     30 

Simon  Rosa o     30 

Richard  mckinlv o  18  6 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 


129 


£     s  d 

1795 
Ezechiel  Eltinge  chain 

and  cash o  ii   7 

Cash   Joseph    Has- 

brouck I 

Cash  from  John  Wil- 

ketd o 

1797 
Collected  by  Lucas 

Vanwagenen    for 

ferry  man O  14  O 


o  o 


2  o 


Total 19  10  3 

Dr. 
1 791 
Paid  to  Daniel  Dubois,  o  11  8 
"      Wm.  Coutant.ii   10  o 
"      myself  for  go- 
i  n  g    to    and 
crossing  to  bild 

the  Skow o  12  o 

"      Simon  Rose. . .   o     16 


£     s  d 

1794 

"      for  a  Rope ^'^7  7 

"      for  mending 

chain o     06 

"  Peter  Lefever, 
Jack  for  tak- 
ing the  Scow 
up  o     30 


Total 19  19  3 

1800. 
Paid  to  Ez.  Eltinge..    139 
"     his  bond  in  full 
for  the   rent  of 
the  Scow  for  the 

year  1797 O  17  o 

Paid  to  Ezekiel  El- 
tinge      I     30 

"     to  Luke  Van- 

Wagenen o     10 

Scow  yet  indebted..  .   o  10  o 
Paid  to  Ezekel  El- 

tinee  o  10  o 


The  Springtown  Merchant  of  1800 

The  following  story  dates  back  to  about  1800,  when  Col. 
Josiah  Hasbrouck  kept  a  store  in  what  is  now  the  Memorial 
House  and  Ezekiel  Elting  and  his  brother-in-law  Philip  Elting 
kept  a  store  in  the  stone  house  with  a  brick  front,  now  the 
property  of  Jesse  M.  Elting,  adjoining  his  residence.  A  negro 
living  at  Springtown,  had  a  little  store,  his  goods  being  kept. 


130  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

altogether  in  a  large  chest.  He  sold  molasses  by  the  pint  and 
whatever  other  articles  he  had  for  sale  in  like  proportion.  In 
those  days  flax  seed  was  one  of  the  principal  articles  sold  by 
farmers,  and  purchased  by  the  village  merchants.  One  day 
our  Springtown  merchant  came  to  the  village  and  having 
quite  a  high  idea  of  his  importance  as  a  business  man  dropped 
in  at  Col.  Hasbrouck's  store,  saying  that  as  spring  was  ap- 
proaching he  thought  he  would  come  to  New  Paltz  so  that 
he  and  Col.  Hasbrouck  and  the  proprietors  of  the  Elting 
store  might  "put  their  heads  together"  and  dictate  what  price 
they  would  pay  the  farmers  for  their  flax  seed  that  spring. 
But  Col.  Hasbrouck  did  not  take  kindly  to  the  idea  of  putting 
their  heads  together  in  this  matter  and  the  Springtown  mer- 
chant left  his  store  in  a  hurry.  This  story  shows  that  although 
the  slaves  were  not  set  free  until  long  afterwards,  a  negro 
kept  a  store  at  Springtown,  even  if  it  was  a  small  one ;  it 
shows,  moreover,  that  the  organization  of  a  trust  in  those  old 
days  was  attended  with  difficulties. 

Washington  Irving  and  Martin  Van  Buren 

Hon.  Andrew  E.  Elmore,  of  Fort  Howard,  Wis.,  relates 
the  following  anecdote  concerning  two  of  the  Empire  State's 
most  prominent  citizens  of  former  days,  showing  that  even 
in  the  early  part  of  the  last  century  the  New  Paltz  records 
were  known  to  be  of  interest : 

In  1821,  when  Mr.  Elmore  was  a  lad  about  seven  years 
of  age  and  his  father  Job  Elmore  kept  a  store  at  what  is 
now  Highland,  Washington  Irving  and  Martin  VanBuren, 
afterwards  President  of  the  United  States,  came  one  day  in 
a  carriage  from  Po'keepsie  to  examine  the  old  records  in  New 
Paltz.  The  New  Paltz  turnpike  was  not  yet  constructed 
and  the  old  road  was  not  in  first-class  condition.     One  of  the 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  131 

horses  lost  a  shoe  and  the  carriage  was  stopped  at  a  black- 
smith shop  across  the  street  from  his  father's  store  to  have 
a  new  shoe  put  on.  The  whip  had  also  lost  its  cracker, 
and  Mr.  VanBuren  came  over  to  the  store  and  got  a  skein 
of  silk  and  tried  to  make  a  new  cracker  while  the  blacksmith 
was  shoeing  the  horse.  He  did  not  succeed  in  making  the 
cracker,  but  got  the  silk  in  a  snarl.  A  bystander  who  knew 
him  addressed  him  by  name,  and  told  him  he  had  the  silk 
in  a  tangle  similar  to  that  in  which  he  would  sometimes 
get  the  minds  of  people  in  arguing  a  case  in  court.  Mr. 
VanBuren  was  surprised  at  being  recognized  and  addressed 
by  name,  but  procured  another  skein  of  silk  of  which  the 
bystander  made  him  a  cracker  for  his  whip. 

Regimental  Trainings 

The  greatest  days  of  the  year  at  New  Paltz  in  the  first 
half  of  the  last  century  were  the  training  days.  The  regi- 
mental district  included  the  old  town  of  New  Paltz — that  is. 
New  Paltz  as  it  was,  before  being  dismembered,  including 
all  of  Lloyd,  about  half  of  the  present  towns  of  Esopus  and 
Gardiner,  and  one-third  of  Rosendale.  Plattekill  was  also 
included  in  the  regimental  district.  Regimental  training  at 
New  Paltz  ceased  about  1848.  Perry  Deyo,  of  Highland, 
was  the  last  Colonel.  His  predecessor  was  Josiah  P.  Le- 
Fevre  of  this  town,  and  Solomon  Elting,  father  of  A.  V. 
N.  Elting,  was  his  predecessor.  The  training  ground  for  a 
long  time  was  on  the  Paltz  Plains.  The  regiment  consisted 
of  eight  companies  of  infantry,  one  of  light  infantry,  and 
one  of  artillery.  The  men  had  to  bear  their  own  expenses 
and  provide  their  own  flint  lock  muskets.  There  was  one 
company  from  Kettleborough,  one  from  Springtown,  one 
from   Highland,   one   from    Nescatook    (now    Liberty ville). 


132  HISTOR^Y  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

The  last  named  company  was  the  best.  The  Highland 
people  did  not  usually  turn  out  very  well. 

The  Brigadier  General  and  staff  would  inspect  the  regi- 
ment and  were  usually  entertained  at  the  residence  of  Dirck 
Wynkoop,  grand-father  of  Edmund  Eltinge.  Mr.  Wynkoop 
was  famous  for  his  hospitality  and  likewise  for  his  fine 
horses.  Under  the  old  oak  tree  still  standing  at  Mr.  Low's, 
at  the  north  end  of  the  Plains,  a  temporary  structure  would 
be  set  up  where  refreshments  and  whiskey  were  sold. 

After  the  Plains  were  fenced  in,  about  1840,  training  was 
held  either  at  Abm.  M.  Hasbrouck's,  north  of  the  village,  or 
on  the  other  side  of  the  Wallkill.  When  Perry  Deyo  was 
Colonel,  just  before  the  training  days  were  finally  discon- 
tinued, he  ordered  the  destruction  of  a  quantity  of  whiskey, 
which  had  been  brought  on  the  ground  by  a  huckster.  Mr. 
Deyo  was  sued  by  the  huckster,  but  was  sustained  by  the 
court,  as  he  had  no  permission  or  legal  right  to  sell. 

Amusements  in  the  Olden  Times 

The  old  folks  probably  had  quite  as  much  fun  as  their  de- 
scendants of  to-day.  It  is  related  that  Isaac  LeFever,  the  first 
settler  of  Bontecoe,  went  to  Albany  and  ran  a  foot  race,  in 
which  his  friends  shouted  in  French,  "Courage,  Isaac."  He 
won  the  race.  Major  Isaac,  his  grandson,  skated  to  Albany 
and  back  in  a  day;  the  skates  he  wore  are  now  in  the  Me- 
morial House.  It  is  related  that  cock  fighting  was  not  an  un- 
known sport  in  the  old  times.  The  widow  of  Daniel,  son  of 
Abram  Hasbrouck,  the  patentee,  lived  in  the  house  still  standing 
directly  opposite  the  brick  church.  She  had  a  lot  of  boys,  and 
"Wyntje's  kitchen"  is  spoken  of  as  a  famous  place  for  cock 
fighting.  We  are  told  that  the  old  folks  thought  nothing  of 
riding  as  far  as  Shawangunk  to  a  husking.     Horse  racing-  on 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  133 

the  Paltz  plains,  which  were  not  fenced  in  until  about  1820, 
was  a  very  common  sport,  especially  at  town  meeting. 

The  young  men  doubtless  derived  much  innocent  amuse- 
ment from  the  races,  but  there  is  an  old  story  of  a  race  on  the 
plains  which  shows  that  there  were  some  wicked  young  men 
in  the  good  old  days. 

The  story  dates  back  to  the  time  of  good  old  Dominie  Bo- 
gardus,  who  was  pastor  of  the  churches  at  New  Paltz  and  New 
Hurley,  in  1820.  Charles  DuBois,  of  Libertyville,  was  a 
prominent  man  in  the  church,  and  his  son,  Louis,  was  fond  of 
horse  racing,  concerning  which  the  dominie  remonstrated  with 
Charles.  The  latter  sold  his  horse  to  another  DuBois,  like- 
wise named  Louis.  Subsequently,  by  trading,  the  dominie 
himself  became  the  owner  of  the  very  horse,  which  he  rode  on 
his  visits  among  the  congregation,  but  of  course  never  indulged 
in  racing.  Young  Louis  did  not  submit  in  a  very  christian 
frame  of  mind,  but  bided  his  time. 

The  race  track  for  the  young  men,  in  those  days,  was  over 
the  Paltz  plains,  from  Peter  Elting's,  now  Edmund  Eltinge's, 
to  Andries  Deyo's,  now  Josiah  Sprague's  place.  Young  Louis 
made  his  plans.  The  dominie  was  on  his  way  to  the  village 
by  the  Kettelborough  road,  after  preaching  in  the  afternoon  at 
New  Hurley.  The  young  man  stationed  a  few  companions, 
who  were  doubtless  ready  for  the  sport,  at  Andries  Deyo's  to 
wait  for  the  fun.  Then  coming  behind  the  dominie,  likewise 
on  horseback,  he  shouted  at  the  dominie's  horse,  who,  remem- 
bering old  times,  broke  from  the  control  of  his  driver  and  away 
both  dashed.  The  dominie  won  the  race,  much  against  his 
will  no  doubt,  and  much  to  his  chagrin,  we  may  guess,  as  the 
young  men,  stationed  at  the  outcome,  swung  their  hats  and 
shouted,  "Hurrah  for  the  dominie."  The  dominie  could  not 
check  his  horse  till  he  reached  the  old  oak  tree,  where  Mr. 
Lowe  now  lives. 


134  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 


CHAPTER  XV 

The  New  Paltz  Church 

The  name  Huguenot  was  not  applied  in  the  old  days  to 
the  church  at  New  Paltz,  either  by  the  people  themselves 
or  by  strangers.  It  was  called  the  Walloon  church ;  some- 
times the  French  church.  The  people  were  called  Walloons. 
Louis  DuBois,  the  leader  in  the  settlement  was  called  Louis 
the  Walloon. 

The  New  Paltz  church  was  peculiar  in  the  respect  that 
for  a  period  of  75  years  it  owned  no  authority  higher  than 
its  own  membership,  having  no  subjection  to  the  classis 
of  Amsterdam  as  had  the  Dutch  churches.  The  church 
records,  still  in  perfect  preservation,  are  unique  likewise  in 
the  fact  that  they  are  in  three  languages — in  French  for  a 
period  of  about  50  years,  then  in  Dutch  for  about  70  years 
and  since  1800  in  English. 

As  New  Paltz  was  settled  by  people  who  had  left  their 
home  on  account  of  religious  persecution  it  was  to  be  ex- 
pected that  religion  and  the  church  should  occupy  a  large 
place  in  their  hearts  when  they  made  for  themselves  a  new 
home  in  the  wilderness.  Several  of  the  older  settlers  at 
New  Paltz  brought  with  them  certificates  of  membership  in 
the  churches  with  which  they  had  united,  while  sojourning 
in  the  Palatinate.  Two  at  least  of  the  Patentees  and  prob- 
ably others  had  Bibles  in  the  French  language.  When  they 
reached  New  Paltz  on  their  journey  from  Kingston  and 
alighted  from  their  wagons  one  of  their  number  read  a 
psalm.     Among  the  log  buildings  erected  at  the  outset  was 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  135 

one  for  a  church  and  school  house.  In  1683,  only  five  years 
after  the  settlement,  a  church  was  organized.  In  their  pur- 
chase of  the  land  of  the  Indians  and  their  honest  payment 
for  it  they  displayed  Christian  principle,  which  had  its  just 
reward  in  the  peace  and  friendship  always  existing  between 
them  and  the  savages.  In  the  institution  of  the  government 
of  the  Dusine  or  Twelve  Men  for  the  division  of  lands  and 
settling  of  disputes  concerning  land  titles  they  showed  a 
feeling  of  Christian  brotherhood,  which  prevented  all  law- 
suits on  that  score.  It  was  not  the  spirit  of  commercial 
gain,  but  the  desire  to  worship  God  according  to  the  dictates 
of  their  own  conscience  that  prompted  the  Huguenots  to 
leave  France.  Religious  motives  led  up  to  the  settlement 
at  New  Paltz.  religious  principles  controlled  it  and  the  exer- 
cise of  religious  duties  and  privileges  formed  an  important 
part  of  the  subsequent  history  of  the  place. 

This  condition  did  not  terminate  with  the  first  generation. 
In  1720,  though  there  was  no  Church  Building  Fund  in 
those  days,  a  substantial  stone  church  was  built.  There 
Avas  no  complaint  about  long  sermons,  we  fancy,  among 
people,  some  of  whom  walked  several  miles  barefoot  to 
church  in  summer  and  in  winter  tried  to  keep  themselves 
warm  in  church  by  little  foot  stoves.  During  the  long  in- 
tervals when  no  minister  visited  New  Paltz  the  journey  of 
16  miles  was  made  to  Kingston,  where  a  large  proportion 
of  the  children  in  the  early  days  were  baptized. 

In  writing  the  history  of  the  Xew  Paltz  church  it  is  pe- 
culiarly fortunate  that  all  the  records  are  still  in  existence. 
The  opinion  that  has  been  advanced  that  one  book  had 
been  lost  because  but  two  entries  of  baptisms  are  found 
from  1700  to  1730  is  doubtless  incorrect,  as  will  be  shown 
hereafter. 


136  HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z 

The  books  containing  the  church  records  are  four  in 
number.  The  oldest  is  a  small  memorandum  book  of  17 
pages,  on  coarse  paper  and  somewhat  yellow  with  age,  but 
the  writing  is  distinct.  This  book  is  altogether  in  French 
(with  the  exception  of  two  entries  interpolated  at  a  later 
date  in  Dutch),  and  gives  the  record  of  baptisms  and  other 
matters  while  the  church  was  under  the  charge  of  the  two 
French  pastors,  Rev.  Pierre  Dailie  and  Rev.  David  Bon- 
repos,  extending  from  1683  to  1700. 

The  first  entry  is  as  follows  in  the  handwriting  of  Louis 
DuBois : 

"Le  22  de  Janv.  (Janvier),  1683,  monsieur  pierre  daillie, 
minister  de  la  parole  de  dieu,  est  arive  (arrive)  au  nouveau 
palatinat.  et  presca  (precha)  deux  fois  le  dimance  (Diman- 
che)  suivant,  et  proposa  aii  ceef  (chefs)  des  famille  de  coisir 
(choisir)  a  plus  de  vois  (voix),  par  les  peres  de  famille,  un 
ancien  et  un  diake  (diacre),  ce  qu  il  firt  (qu'ils  firent),  et  coisir 
(choisirent)  Louys  du  bois  pour  ancien  et  hughe  frere  pour 
diake,  pour  ayder  le  ministre  a  conduire  les  membres  de 
leglise  (I'eglise)  quil  sasemble  (qui  s'assemble)  au  nouveau 
palatinat ;  lequel  furt  confirme  (lesquels  furent  con  firmes) 
ensuite  dans  ladict  carge  (charge)  dancien  et  diake.  Le 
present  liuur  (livre)  a  est  faict  (a  ete  fait)  pour  mestre 
(metre)  les  choses  quil  apatien  (qui  appartiennent)  a  la 
diet  eglise." 

The  translation  is  as  follows : 

"The  22d  of  January,  1683,  Mr.  Pierre  Daillie,  minister 
of  the  Word  of  God,  arrived  at  New  Paltz,  and  preached 
twice  on  the  following  Sunday,  and  proposed  to  the  heads 
of  the  famijlies  that  they  should  choose  by  a  majority  of 
votes,  by  the  fathers  of  families,  one  elder  and  one  deacon. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  137 

which  they  did,  and  chose  Louis  DuBois  for  elder  and 
Hugh  Freer  for  deacon,  to  assist  the  minister  in  guiding 
the  members  of  the  church  that  meets  in  New  Paltz ;  who 
were  subsequently  confirmed  in  the  said  charge  of  elder 
and  deacon.  This  minute  has  been  made  to  put  in  order 
the  matters  which  pertain  to  the  said  church." 

The  Two  French  Pastors 

The  two  French  pastors,  Dailie  and  Bonrepos,  usually 
visited  New  Paltz  in  the  spring  or  early  summer  and  "again 
in  October.  The  pastorate  of  the  former  extended  over  a 
period  of  ten  years.  His  main  field  of  labor  was  in  New 
York,  but  he  seems  to  have  preached  in  various  Huguenot 
communities.  In  1691  and  1692  we  find  "Rev.  Pierre  Daillie 
of  New  York"  ofBciating  at  the  baptism  of  children  at  the 
Dutch  church  in  Kingston.  His  last  recorded  service  at 
New  Paltz  is  in  1692.  Before  leaving  France  he  had  been 
Professor  of  theology  in  the  Protestant  seminary  at  Samur. 
In  1696  he  received  a  call  from  the  French  church  in  Boston, 
where  he  died  in  1715,  aged  about  66  years. 


OLD    PAPER    WITH    SIGNATURE   OF   REV.    PIERRE    DAILLE 

During  the  period  of  ten  years  from  1683  to  1693  the 
name  of  no  child  of  New  Paltz  parentage  is  found  recorded 
on  the  church  book  at  Kingston.  All  were  baptized  at  New 
Paltz. 


138  HISTORY  OF  XEW  PALTZ 

From  1696  until  1700  Rev.  David  Bonrepos  visited  New 
Paltz  occasionally,  baptizing  children  and  receiving  mem- 
bers at  the  table  of  the  Lord.  His  special  field  of  labor 
was  on  Staten  Island.  Book  i  ends  with  a  marriage  in  1702, 
which,  although  not  so  stated,  was  probably  performed  by 
Bonrepos  and  was  his  last  service  here.  A  long  blank  in  the 
church  records  follows,  extending  until  1729,  broken  by  the 
record  in  Dutch  of  the  baptism  of  two  children,  not  of  New 
Paltz  parentage,  in  1718,  and  by  the  account  of  the  building 
of  the  first  stone  church,  which  was  finished  in  1720.  It 
has  been  supposed  that  a  book  containing  a  record  of  bap- 
tisms and  other  church  services  from  1702  to  1729  must 
have  been  lost.  But  an  examination  of  the  Kingston  church 
records  shows  that  during  this  time  a  large  number  of 
children  of  New  Paltz  parents  were  baptised  there. 

It  is  altogether  likely  that  during  this  period  of  about  30 
years  no  regular  minister  held  services  at  New  Paltz  for 
the  reason  that  the  people  here  had  no  claims  on  the  Dutch 
church  and  probably  did  not  understand  that  language, 
while  the  few  French  ministers,  who  had  come  to  this  coun- 
try were  now  dead  or  otherwise  engaged  and  there  were  no 
French  Protestant  seminaries  on  either  side  of  the  Atlantic 
to  train  others  in  their  stead.  Be  this  as  it  may  the  fire  still 
burned  brightly  on  the  altar  as  is  shown  by  the  entry  on 
the  church  book  when  the  first  stone  church  was  built,  as 
follows : 

"Beni  sois  Dieu.  Quij  Le  nous  a  mys  a  coevtr  de  Luy  batir 
une  maison  pour  y  estre  adores  et  servir,  et  que  par  sa  grace 
nous  Lavon  finys  en  Lan  Dix  vii ;  et  Dieu  veillie  que  son 
evangile  y  soit  anouce  dean  ce  ciecle  et  dedan  Lautre  y 
usque  au  jour  D  Leternite.     Amen." 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  139 

The  translation  is  as  follows : 

''Blessed  be  God,  who  has  put  it  into  our  hearts  to  build 
a  house  where  He  may  be  adored  and  served,  and  that  by 
his  grace  we  have  finished  it  in  the  year  17  [1717]  ;  and 
God  grant  that  his  gospel  may  be  preached  here  from  one 
age  to  another  till  the  day  of  eternity.     Amen." 

The  First  Stone  Church 

Next  on  the  church  book  conies  the  names  of  those  who 
assisted  in  building  the  first  stone  church  as  follows :  Mary, 
widow  of  Abraham  Hasbrouck,  now  dead ;  Luoy  Bevier 
(deceased)  and  at  present  Samuel  and  Loui  Bevier;  Abra- 
ham DuBois,  Huge  Frere,  Salomon  Duboys,  Louys  Duboys, 
Abraham  Doyo,  Andres  LeFevre.  Joseph  Hasbrouck,  Jacob 
Hasbrouck,  Alary  Duboys,  now  dead,  and  at  present  Daniel 
and  Philip  Duboys,  Jean  LeFevre,  Isaac  LeFevre,  Ely  Un, 
Chrestiane  Doyo,  Hanry  Doyo,  Abraham  Frere,  Jacob  Frere. 

It  will  be  noted  that  Abraham  DuBois  is  the  only  one  of 
the  original  Patentees,  whose  name  appears  in  this  list. 
All  the  rest  were  dead. 

In  1720  an  entry  is  made  in  the  church  book  assigning 
and  deeding  certain  pews  to  all  who  had  assisted  in  building 
the  church. 

This  church  stood  at  the  north  end  of  the  old  graveyard. 
In  1895,  in  digging  for  the  foundation  for  the  addition  to 
the  residence  of  Airs.  S.  A.  LeFevre,  the  foundation  of  this 
old  church  was  found  and  it  was  followed  up  for  some  dis- 
tance. This  building  was  the  house  of  worship  for  the 
little  community  till  1773.  Then  a  larger  stone  church  was 
erected  near  the  site  of  the  present  church  edifice.  The  old 
church  of  1717  was  then  taken  down  and  the  stone  of  which 


140 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 


THE    FIRST    STOXE    CHURCH    AT    NEW    PALTZ 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  141 

it  was  built  drawn  to  a  new  site  on  what  is  now  North  Front 
St.,  where  they  were  used  in  building  the  school  house, 
which  was  the  only  public  school  building  in  the  village 
until  1874.  Then  a  new  brick  school  house  was  built  and 
the  old  stone  building  was  purchased  by  Mr.  John  Drake, 
who  remodeled  it  somewhat  and  made  it  his  residence.  A 
pen  and  ink  picture  of  this  old  church  is  found  in  an  ancient 
map,  which  has  come  down  from  the  days  of  the  Dusine. 
It  was  probably  the  exact  size  of  the  school  building,  that  is 
about  33  feet  square.  It  had  a  large  window  on  each  of  its 
three  sides  and  on  the  fourth  a  capacious  door  and  portico. 
From  the  steeple  a  horn  was  sounded  for  religious  meetings. 

There  can  hardly  be  a  doubt  that  religious  service  of  some 
kind  was  held  at  this  church  each  Sabbath  even  though  no 
minister  was  present  to  conduct  it.  The  entry  on  the  church 
book,  at  the  time  of  building  shows  how  desirous  the  people 
were  of  having  the  gospel  preached. 

There  were  some  16  or  18  families  who  assisted  in  building 
the  church.  The  records  of  the  Kingston  church  show  that 
during  the  period  from  1700  to  1730  an  average  of  5  or  6 
children  of  New  Paltz  parentage  were  baptized  there,  each 
year.  Had  there  been  a  minister  visiting  New  Paltz,  even 
two  or  three  times  a  year,  as  in  the  days  of  the  French  pas- 
tors, very  few  would  probably  have  been  taken  on  the  long 
journey  to  Kingston. 

Rev.  Johannes  Van  Driessen 

Rev.  Johannes  Van  Driessen  took  charge  of  the  church 
at  New  Paltz  in  1 731.  or  possibly  a  year  or  tw^o  earlier.  He 
received  only  £10  a  year  for  his  services.  His  first  entries 
on  the  church  book  are  in  French.  In  one  of  these  he  calls 
the  church  here  "our  French  church."     Doubtless  his  ser- 


142  HISTORY  OF  X E\V  PALTZ 

vices  were  in  that  language.  Probably  but  a  small  portion 
of  his  time  was  spent  at  New  Paltz. 

Mr.  Van  Driessen  was  educated  in  Belgium.  The  church 
book  contains  a  copy  in  Latin  of  a  certificate  showing  that 
he  had  been  examined  in  1727  by  the  Presbytery  of  New 
Haven  in  the  halls  of  Yale  college  and  had  well  sustained 
the  examination.  In  1736  he  accepted  a  call  to  the  church 
at  Acquackanonk,  N.  J.,  and  for  the  space  of  about  16  years 
thereafter  New  Paltz  was  without  a  regular  pastor,  though 
visited  occasionally  by  ministers  from  other  churches. 

From  1700  until  1731  there  is  no  record  of  officers  of  .the 
church.  At  the  latter  date,  when  Mr.  Van  Driessen  became 
pastor,  Nicholas  Rose  and  Andries  LeFevre  were  elected 
elders  and  Samuel  Bevier  and  Solomon  Hasbrouck  deacons. 
In  1733  Louis  DuBois,  Jr.  was  elected  elder  and  Christian 
Deyo  deacon.  In  1734  Nicholas  Rose  was  again  chosen 
elder;  Jacob  Hasbrouck  was  chosen  deacon.  In  1736 
Samuel  Bevier  was  chosen  elder  and  Daniel  Hasbrouck 
deacon.  Then  there  is  no  further  record  of  church  officers 
until  1750. 

Rev.  Johannes  Van  Driessen  was  not  regularly  ordained 
by  the  Dutch  church  and  20  years  after  he  came  to  New 
Paltz  the  next  regular  minister,  Rev.  B.  Vrooman,  insti- 
tuted an  inquiry  as  to  whether  the  members  admitted  by 
Van  Driessen  believed  the  doctrines  of  the  Reformed  church 
according  to  the  Heidelbergh  catechism.  During  Mr.  Van 
Driessen's  pastorate  of  about  five  years  19  joined  the  church 
and  about  30  children  were  baptized.  During  the  same 
period  about  half  that  number  of  children  of  New  Paltz 
parents  were  baptized  at  Kingston. 

In  1738  a  highway,  probably  the  first  in  this  town,  was 
laid  out  on  the  east  side  of  the  Wallkill  for  the  purpose,  r.s 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  143 

stated  in  the  record,  of  better  enabling  the  people  to  get  to 
church  at  New  Paltz  and  Kingston. 

At  this  time  the  Dutch  language  was  coming  into  more 
general  use  in  New  Paltz  and  a  side  light  is  thrown  on  this 
fact  by  the  will  of  Jean  Tebenin,  the  old  French  schoolmaster 
in  1730  giving  his  property  to  the  church  with  the  special 
request  that  if  the  French  language  should  cease  to  be  used 
the  Bible  should  be  sold  and  the  proceeds  given  to  the  poor. 

After  1736  there  is  no  record  of  baptisms  until  1739  when 
three  are  recorded  in  French  by  Rev.  J.  J.  ^loulinars. 

In  1740,  in  1 741  and  again  in  1742  Rev.  Isaac  Chalker  offi- 
ciated at  six  different  times,  baptizing  15  persons  in  all.  Each 
time  the  record  is  in  English,  but  it  is  not  to  be  supposed  that 
the  service  was  performed  in  that  language,  which  must  have 
been  an  unknown  tongue  to  nearly  all  of  his  hearers. 

In  1 741  the  New  Paltz  church,  and  Shawangunk,  Roches- 
ter, and  Marbletown  made  a  call  upon  Rev.  J.  Casparus 
Freyenmoet,  who  was  then  preaching  at  Minisink,  but  the 
call  was  not  accepted  and  the  consistory  of  the  Minisink 
church  sent  a  very  indignant  letter  to  the  consistory  of  the 
Rochester  church,  reprimanding  them  for  attempting  to 
take  away  their  minister. 

From  1742  to  '49  the  record  shows  no  baptisms  and  one 
marriage  only,  that  of  Andries  Le  Fever  and  Rachel  DuBois, 
Oct.  1745,  after  three  proclamations  "in  our  French  Church," 
at  New  Paltz.  The  visiting  ministers  from  the  close  of 
Rev.  Mr.  Van  Driessen's  to  the  commencement  of  the  next 
regular  pastorate  baptized  infants,  but  except  in  the  case 
above  noted  no  marriage  by  a  minister  is  recorded  from  1737 
to  1 75 1.  In  1742  and  1749  marriages  are  recorded  on  the 
church  books  as  being  performed  by  Zacharias  Hoffman,  Esq., 
and  Cornelius  DuBois,  Esq.     In  the  latter  year  the  name  of 


144  HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z 

Rev.  J.  fienry  Goetschius  appears  as  baptizing  infants  and  in 
1751  he  performed  six  marriages.  He  was  settled  over  the 
churches  at  Schraalenbergh  and  Hackensack,  occasionally 
coming  to  New  Paltz,  receiving"  members  in  communion  and 
baptizing  infants.  In  1750  we  find  the  name  of  J.  C.  Frey- 
enmoet,  in  175 1  that  of  Rev.  Theodorus  Frelinghuysen  "pas- 
tor at  Albany"  and  in  1752  that  of  Dominie  Meynema  as 
performing  baptisms. 

Rev.  Barent  Vrooman 

Then  at  last  in  1753  New  Paltz  has  once  more  a  settled 
minister.  Rev.  Barent  Vrooman,  of  Schoharie,  whose  call 
had  been  sent  to  Amsterdam  and  returned  with  the  endorse- 
ment of  the  Classis.  He  was  the  first  regularly  installed 
Dutch  pastor  at  New  Paltz.  He  also  preached  at  Shawan- 
gunk.  His  stay  was  short  and  in  1754  he  accepted  a  call 
from  the  church  at  Schenectady. 

From  this  date  we  may  consider  the  Dutch  language  and 
the  Dutch  church  established  in  New  Paltz,  though  in  some 
of  the  homes  the  French  tongue  doubtless  lingered  a  while 
longer. 

In  175 1,  '52,  '53  and  '54  no  less  than  75  persons  joined  the 
church  on  confession  of  faith  and  23  by  certificate  from  other 
churches.  Part  of  these  were  admitted  by  Rev.  J.  H. 
Goetschius  and  part  by  Rev.  B.  Vrooman. 

The  bounds  of  the  New  Paltz  congregation  at  this  time 
extended  over  a  territory  stretching  about  ten  miles  to  the 
south  and  eight  miles  to  the  north,  that  is  from  New  Hurley 
on  the  south  to  Swartekill  on  the  north.  John  George 
Ronk  of  New  Hurley,  ancestor  of  the  Ronk  family,  joined 
the  church  in  1750  and  Johannes  Hardenbergh,  of  Rosen- 
dale,  in  1751  and  were  soon  afterwards  made  officers  in  the 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  145 

church.  A  few  years  afterwards  Petrus  Ostrander  of  Platte- 
kill  and  Abraham  Hardenbergh  of  Guilford  were  officers  in 
the  church. 

In  1752  at  a  meeting  of  the  consistory  it  was  resolved  to 
elect,  beside  the  governing  elders  and  deacons,  two  more 
elders  and  deacons  and  this  resolution  was  at  once  carried  into 
effect. 

After  Rev.  B.  Vrooman  departed  for  Schenectady  the  New 
Paltz  church  was  dependent  on  supplies  for  six  years.  During 
that  period  Rev.  J.  H.  Goetschius,  Rev.  Theodorus  Freling- 
huysen,  Rev.  D.  B.  Meynema  and  Rev.  Johannes  Schunemaa 
officiated  at  different  tirnes,  baptizing  quite  a  number  of  in- 
fants, although  none  joined  the  church  on  confession  and  but 
one  marriage  is  recorded  in  all  those  years. 

Baptizing  the  Children  at  Kingston 

During  the  long  intervals  while  New  Paltz  was  without  a 
minister  some  of  the  little  children  were  baptized  by  visiting 
ministers,-  but  a  great  portion  were  taken  to  Kingston  and  the 
solemn  rite  was  there  performed.  In  the  16  years  from  the 
end  of  Rev.  Mr.  Van  Driessen's  pastorate  in  1736  to  the  com- 
mencement of  that  of  Rev.  B.  Vrooman  in  1752  there  were 
about  85  children  of  New  Paltz  parents  baptized  at  Kingston. 
During  a  portion  of  this  16  years,  that  is  from  1742  to  1749, 
the  record  shows  no  baptisms  at  New  Paltz  and  59  of  New 
Paltz  parentage  at  Kingston,  that  is  an  average  of  over  7  each 
year.  After  1752  there  were  few  baptisms  of  New  Paltz 
children  at  Kingston — only  about  a  dozen  in  the  next  ten 
years.  During  this  time  visiting  ministers  came  quite  often 
to  New  Paltz  and  the  church  grew  and  prospered.  It  is 
worthy  of  note  that  the  Kingston  ministers  never  baptized  chil- 
dren at  New  Paltz,  though  their  church  book  shows  that  they 

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146  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

performed  that  service  at   Marbletown,   Rochester,   Shawan- 
gunk  and  Minisink. 

The  long  ride  from  New  Paltz  to  Kingston  was  taken  prob- 
ably on  horseback.  There  were  no  spring  wagons  until  long 
after  that  date.  The  route  on  the  east  side  of  the  Wallkill 
led  from  one  to  another  of  the  stone  houses,  crossing  the  stream 
by  a  scow,  just  this  side  of  the  present  Bontecoe  school-house. 
We  may  suppose  that  a  stop  was  frequently  made  at  Rosen- 
dale,  at  the  residence  of  Col.  Johannes  Hardenbergh,  whose 
wife  Marie  DuBois,  was  the  daughter  of  Louis  DuBois,  Jr., 
of  Nescatock.  A  few  miles  further  north  at  Bloomingdale 
we  may  suppose  another  stop  would  be  made  at  the  residence 
of  Matthew  LeFevre,  who  moved  from  our  village  about  1740 
and  located  there.  There  may  have  been  a  little  danger  from 
wild  beasts,  but  there  was  none  from  Indians.  In  passing 
through  the  clearings  the  gates  must  be  opened,  as  it  was  not 
till  long  afterward  that  the  farmers  were  required  to  build  a 
fence  on  each  side  of  the  highway. 

Connection  Between  Church  and  State 

There  was  a  close  connection  between  church  and  state  at 
New  Paltz  in  those  days  as  shown  by  certain  records  in  papers 
that  have  come  down  in  the  Patentees'  trunk,  showing  what 
matters  were  submitted  to  voters,  as  follows : 

In  1757  whether  the  money  received  for  the  collectorship 
should  be  applied  on  the  highway  or  to  the  use  of  the  church ; 
the  latter  was  preferred.  In  1758  the  same  question  was  again 
decided  by  vote  with  the  same  result.  In  1759  it  was  put  to 
vote  whether  the  money  received  for  the  collectorship  should  be 
given  to  the  clerk  of  the  church,  to  the  poor,  or  used  for  the 
purchase  of  a  "pall."      It  was  decided  to  use  it  for  the  last 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  147 

named  purpose.  The  next  year  it  was  again  voted  to  apply 
the  money  received  for  the  collectorship  to  the  purchase  of  a 
pall  and  the  overplus  for  the  purchase  of  a  silver  cup  or 
beaker  for  the  use  of  the  church.  The  next  year  it  was  again 
voted  that  the  money  received  for  the  collectorship  should  be 
applied  to  the  purchase  of  a  silver  cup  for  the  church. 

Rev  Johannes  Mauritius  Goetschius 

In  1760  the  churches  at  New  Paltz  and  Shawangunk  made 
a  call  on  Rev.  Johannes  Mauritius  Goetschius.  He  was  a  na- 
tive of  Switzerland,  a  younger  brother  of  Rev.  J.  H.  Goet- 
schius, had  studied  medicine  before  coming  to  America,  studied 
theology  with  his  brother  at  Hackensack,  N.  J.  and  had 
preached  two  years  at  Schoharie.  The  call,  which  was  ac- 
cepted, stated  that  from  Easter  to  October  he  should  preach 
twice  each  Lord's  Day,  holding  services  alternately  at  Shawan- 
gunk and  at  New  Paltz,  preaching  in  the  forenoon  from  some 
text  in  the  Bible  and  in  the  afternoon  from  the  Heidelbergh 
catechism.  The  rest  of  the  year  he  was  to  preach  one  sermon 
each  Sunday.  He  was  to  administer  the  sacrament  of  the 
Lord's  Supper  twice  in  the  year  at  Shawangunk  and  twice  a 
year  at  New  Paltz  and  attend  to  the  house  visiting  once  a  year. 
He  should  have  a  house,  barn,  90  acres  of  land  and  a  good 
spring  at  Shawangunk,  where  he  had  his  home,  and  while  at 
New  Paltz  should  be  provided  with  bed,  board  and  quarters. 
He  was  to  receive  an  annual  salary  of  i8o,  one  half  to  be  paid 
by  each  of  the  churches.  The  call  was  approved  by  the  Coetus 
in  New  York. 

Rev.  Mr.  Goetschius  continued  to  minister  to  the  churches 
at  New  Paltz  and  Shawangunk  until  1771,  when  he  died  at  1.1s 
home  in  Shawangunk  in  the  48th  year  of  his  age  and  was 
buried  in  the  baptistry  of  the  church.     Mr.  Goetschius  prac- 


148  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

ticed  medicine  as  well  as  preached  the  gospel.  In  1762,  dur- 
ing the  early  part  of  his  pastorate  steps  were  taken  looking 
toward  the  erection  of  a  new  church  building  at  New  Paltz, 
but  the  plan  was  not  carried  out,  owing  probably  to  the  quarrel 
between  the  Coetus  and  Conferentia  parties,  which  split  the 
Dutch  church  at  New  Paltz,  as  well  as  elsewhere  in  America, 
into  two  factions  and  led  to  the  erection  of  a  church  building 
about  two  miles  from  our  village  on  the  road  to  the  county 
house  by  the  Conferentia  party. 

The  Conferentia  Church 

We  have  come  now  to  a  most  exciting  period  in  the  history 
of  the  Dutch  church  at  New  Paltz,  as  well  as  elsewhere  in 
America :  that  is  the  period  of  the  struggle  between  the  Coetus 
and  Conferentia  parties.  This  strife  was  due  we  may  say, 
stating  the  case  broadly,  to  the  same  causes  that  afterward 
provoked  a  revolt  against  the  political  control  of  Great  Britain. 
In  each  of  these  cases  the  grievances  were  not  great,  but  the 
American  child,  feeling  its  ability  to  walk  alone,  did  not  care 
to  pay  homage  any  longer  to  the  mother  church  or  to  the 
mother  country. 

The  Coetus  party  did  not  care  to  own  allegiance  to  any  for- 
eign ecclesiastical  power. 

The  Conferentia  party  held  that  the  church  in  this  country 
ought  to  remain  subordinate  to  the  classis  of  North  Amsterdam 
and  accused  the  Coetus  party  of  "despicable  ingratitude  against 
their  benefactors,  who  had  so  long  labored  for  their  well  being 
and  have  exerted  so  many  efforts  in  behalf  of  the  churches  of 
New  York." 

The  battle  raged  fiercely  among  the  Dutch  churches  in 
America.  The  consistory  of  the  New  Paltz  church  took  sides 
with  the  Coetus  and  the  great  majority  of  the  people  ranged 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  149 

themselves  with  that  party.  There  was  an  element,  however, 
respectable  in  numbers  and  especially  so  in  means  and  influence, 
which  sided  with  the  Conferentia.  This  party  was  almost 
altogether  of  Dutch  descent,  had  moved  from  Kingston  to 
New  Paltz  at  a  considerable  period  after  the  first  settlement, 
and  few  had  formally  united  with  the  church  here.  This  party 
comprised  the  Eltings,  the  Lows  and  the  Van  Wagenens ;  also 
Jacob  DuBois,  who  had  recently  moved  from  near  Kingston, 
and  Hendricus  DuBois.  The  last  named  was  a  member  of  the 
New  Paltz  church  and  may  be  considered  the  foremost  man  in 
the  Conferentia  movement.  In  1765  he  was  suspended  for 
provoking  schism  and  secession  in  the  church  and  refusing  to 
answer  after  three  citations.  He  was  evidently  not  much 
frightened  and  two  years  afterwards  a  meeting  was  held  at  his 
house  to  organize  a  Conferentia  church.  Rev.  Isaac  Rysdyck 
of  Poughkeepsie  and  Fishkill  was  the  officiating  minister. 

The  following  persons,  members  of  the  Kingston  church, 
joined  the  new  church  organization :  Josiah  Elting  and  his 
brother  Noah,  Petrus  Van  Wagenen,  Jacob  DuBois,  Rebecca 
Van  Wagenen,  Dirk  D.  Wynkoop,  Magdalena  DuBois,  Ja- 
comyntje  Elting,  Sarah  Low.  On  the  same  day  the  following 
joined  the  church  :  Petrus,  Solomon  and  Isaac  Low,  Hendricus 
DuBois,  Debora  Van  Vliet  and  Jannitje  Houghtaling  The  next 
year  there  were  admitted  to  the  church  on  confession  Josiah 
Elting's  four  sons :  Roelif  J.,  Abraham,  Solomon  and  Corne- 
lius; also  various  female  members  of  the  families  of  those 
previously  mentioned ;    also  Jacobus  Auchmoody. 

The  new  church  organization  was  weak  in  numbers,  but 
strong  in  determination  and  had  a  house  of  worship  almost 
completed  before  the  church  was  organized.  This  church 
building  was  located  a  short  distance  this  side  of  the  present 
residence  of  Capt.  W.  H.  D.  Blake,  about  two  miles  south  of 


ISO  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

our  village,  on  the  west  side  of  the  Wallkill.  This  church 
building  was  called  "Kerk  of  het  Grootstuck"  that  is  in  Eng- 
lish "Church  of  the  Great  Piece,"  that  being  the  name  of  the 
tract  of  land  on  which  the  church  was  located  and  which  be- 
longed to  Noah  Eltinge.  It  was  usually  called  the  "owl" 
church,  probably  because  the  neighborhood  abounded  in  owls. 
It  was  a  frame  building,  30  feet  square,  boarded  without,  plas- 
tered with  clay  within,  shingle  roofed,  and  containing  20  pews. 
It  cost  about  £150.  Josiah  Kiting  and  Hendricus  DuBois 
were  the  most  liberal  contributors,  each  giving  about  £25. 
Noah  Eltinge  was  elected  elder  and  Petrus  Van  Wagenen 
deacon.  Rev.  G.  D.  Cock  served  for  a  time  as  stated  supply 
for  this  church.  Then  in  1774  Rev.  Rynier  Van  Nest  was 
called  to  the  pastorate  of  the  church  at  Shawangunk  and 
the  Conferentia  church  at  New  Paltz.  He  received  as 
salary  i6o  a  year  from  Shawangunk  and  £20  a  year  from  New 
Paltz. 

The  feud  between  the  Coetus  and  Conferentia  parties  in  the 
Dutch  church  in  America  did  not  prevail  many  years,  but  it 
was  a  long  time  before  the  two  churches  at  New  Paltz  were 
united. 

In  1 77 1  a  convention  was  held  in  New  York,  attended  by 
delegates,  ministers  and  elders  from  most  of  the  churches,  at 
which  articles  of  union  were  drawn  up.  The  Coetus  church 
at  New  Paltz  was  represented  by  Johannes  Hardenbergh.  The 
Conferentia  church  had  no  delegate.  The  articles  of  union, 
adopted  at  this  convention,  left  the  church  in  this  country  prac- 
tically independent  of  the  mother  church  in  Holland,  though 
it  was  provided  that  if  difficulties  should  arise  concerning  im- 
portant points  of  doctrine  or  any  member  be  deposed  on  account 
of  heresy  or  misconduct  there  should  be  the  right  of  appeal  to 
the  classis  of  Amsterdam.      Johannes  Hardenbergh,   delegate 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  151 

from  the  old  church  at  New  Paltz,  signed  this  agreement  and 
his  action  was  promptly  approved  by  his  consistory.  The  Con- 
ferentia  party  at  New  Paltz  took  no  action  for  a  long  time. 
Finally  in  1783  the  spirit  of  harmony  had  been  restored  to  so 
great  an  extent  that  at  last  the  "owl"  church  was  abandoned 
as  a  house  of  worship  and  its  members  in  full  harmony  joined 
with  the  worshipers  in  the  church  in  this  village  and  its  records 
were  preserved  with  those  of  the  older  church.  The  "owl" 
church  building  was  taken  down  and  a  granary  was  built  of 
its  material  by  Roelif  J.  Elting,  at  his  home  in  this  village. 
During  its  existence  the  total  number  of  baptisms  registered  in 
this  church  were  60.  There  were  2  marriages  recorded 
and  35  persons  in  all  had  joined  the  church.  Of  this 
number  19  united  with   the  church   in   this   village   May  25th, 

1783. 

The  persons  who  came  in  from  the  Conferentia  church  were 
Dirk  Wynkoop,  Jr.  and  wife  Sarah  (daughter  of  Noah  Eltinge) 
Abraham  Elting,  David  Low,  Henry  DuBois  and  his  wife 
Rebecca  A'an  Wagenen  and  his  mother  Janiteje  Houghtaling, 
Jacob  DuBois  and  wife,  Solomon  Low  and  wife,  Magdalena 
DuBois  widow  of  Josiah  Elting,  Margaret  Hue  widow  of  Wil- 
liam Patterson,  IVIaria  Low  wife  of  Roelif  J.  Elting,  Cornelius 
Elting,  Jacobus  Auchmoody,  Ann  DuBois,  Petrus  Van  Wage- 
nen and  wife  Sarah  Low. 

Having  now  concluded  the  history  of  the  Conferentia  church 
we  go  back  twelve  years  and  take  up  the  history  of  the  original 
New  Paltz  church. 

In  March  1771  the  pastor,  Rev.  Mauritius  Goetschius  died. 
In  October  of  the  same  year  the  Convention  was  held  in  New 
York,  which  apparently  had  no  immediate  effect  at  New  Paltz, 
though  it  resulted  in  the  restoration  of  harmony  twelve  years 
later. 


152  HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z 

The  Second  Stone  Church 

In  the  same  year,  1771,  though  without  a  mmister  and  with- 
out the  assistance  of  the  Conferentia  party,  action  was  taken 
toward  building  a  new  house  of  worship.  The  location  of 
this  new  church  was  a  few  yards  south  of  the  site  of  the 
present  brick  church.  The  land  was  bought  of  Petronella  Le- 
Fevre,  widow  of  Simon.  The  new  church  building  was  of 
stone,  much  larger  than  the  old  church  and  remained  as  the 
house  of  worship  until  1839.  The  following  persons  were 
chosen  as  the  building  committee:  Abraham  Deyo  (grand- 
father of  the  late  Judge  Abm.  A.  Deyo  of  IModena)  Jacob 
Hasbrouck,  Jr.  (great-grandfather  of  Jacob  M.  Hasbrouck) 
Simon  DuBois  (great-grandfather  of  the  late  John  W.  Du- 
Bois)  Nathaniel  LeFevre  (great-grandfather  of  Hon.  Jacob 
LeFevre)  Garret  Freer,  Jr.,  Abraham  LeFevre  (great-grand- 
father of  Josiah  LeFevre)  and  Hugo  Freer,  ancestor  of  a  num- 
ber of  the  Bontecoe  Freers.  The  initials  of  several  of  these  men 
and  the  date  may  still  be  seen  in  a  large  stone  under  the  horse 
block  at  the  south  end  of  the  portico.  This  was  no  doubt  the 
corner  stone  of  the  building.  Abram  Deyo  was  appointed 
overseer  of  the  work.  He  was  required  to  give  a  bond  and  he 
kept  a  strict  account  of  everything.  His  account  book,  in  the 
Dutch  language,  containing  a  full  statement  of  these  matters 
is  in  possession  of  his  descendant  Abm.  Deyo  Brodhead,  who 
occupies  his  house. 

A  lime  oven  was  erected  and  lime  for  making  mortar  burned 
on  the  ground.  The  masons'  helpers  were  paid  4  shillings  a 
day,  a  man  with  a  team  and  wagon  was  paid  9  shillings  a  day 
for  carting  lime  and  10  shillings  a  day  for  carting  wood ;  i 
shilling  a  day  was  allowed  for  boarding  each  workman ;  au- 
thority was  given  to  buy  beer  for  the  workmen,  also  a  barrel 
of  rum. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 


153 


THE   SECOND   STONE   CHURCH    AT    NEW    PALTZ 


154  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

This  church  was  a  substantial,  well-proportioned  building, 
with  a  hipped  roof  and  a  cupola  from  which  a  bell  sounded  for 
religious  services.  The  total  subscriptions  amounted  to  only 
£546,  but  the  sum  realized  from  the  sale  of  pews  fully  doubled 
that  amount.  The  list  of  subscribers  comprises  85  names,  the 
Freers  being  far  in  advance,  with  17  names.  The  heaviest 
subscribers  were  Jacob  Hasbrouck,  Jr.  £55,  Abram  Deyo  £45, 
Wyntje  Hasbrouck  It^T)'  Col.  Abm.  Hasbrouck  (Kingston)  £30, 
Hugo  Freer  £25,  Simon  DuBois  £27. 

In  the  list  of  subscribers  appear  the  names  of  17  Freers  con- 
tributing £162,  9  LeFevres  contributing  £130,  8  Hasbroucks 
contributing  £168,  8  Deyos  contributing  £97,  6  DuBoises  con- 
tributing iyj,  4  Beviers  contributing  £57,  3  Hardenberghs  con- 
tributing £32,  3  Terwilligers  contributing  £32,  5  Ostranders 
contributing  £9,  2  Fans  contributing  £7,  2  Schoonmakers  con- 
tributing £11,  2  Lows  £15,  2  Vandemarks  £17. 

There  are  also  on  the  list  of  contributors  the  names  of  Dr. 
Geo.  Wurts,  Petrus  Smedes,  John  York,  Teunis  Van  Vliet, 
Dennis  Relyea,  Johannes  Walron,  Lewis  Brodhead  and  Joseph 
Coddington.  The  last  named  was  the  village  schoolmaster  and 
performed  much  clerical  work  connected  with  building  of  the 
church. 

Among  the  names  of  purchasers  of  seats,  beside  those  resid- 
ing in  this  vicinity  were  Philip  D.  B.  Bevier  of  Rochester, 
David  Bevier  of  Marbletown,  Col.  Abm.  Hasbrouck  of  King- 
ston, Isaac  Hasbrouck,  Jr.  of  Stone  Ridge,  Jacobus  Bruyn 
of  Bruynswick,  Hendrick  Smit  of  Rifton,  Col.  Johannes 
Hardenbergh  of  Rosendale  and  Dennis  Relyea  of  New 
Hurley. 

The  total  appraisement  of  the  pews  was  £2280.  The  total 
sum  realized  at  the  sale  was  considerably  more,  amounting  to 
£2684. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  155 

Although  the  work  was  commenced  in  1771  it  was  not  until 
1774  that  the  pews  were  sold  at  public  auction. 

The  old  Shawangunk  church,  with  which  the  New  Paltz 
church  had  formerly  been  connected,  being  now  a  Conferentia 
church,  the  New  Paltz  church  joined  with  the  New  Hurley 
church  in  1775  in  extending  a  call  to  Rev.  Stephen  Goetschius, 
which  was  accepted.  He  was  the  son  of  Rev.  J.  Henry  Goet- 
schius and  nephew  of  his  predecessor  Rev.  Mauritius  Goet- 
schius. He  was  23  years  of  age  when  he  came  to  New  Paltz 
and  remained  here  21  years — a  longer  period  of  service  than 
any  of  the  successors.  He  was  a  graduate  of  Princeton  and 
had  studied  theology  with  four  eminent  divines,  including  his 
father.  His  call  stated  that  New  Paltz  should  receive  two- 
thirds  of  his  services  and  provide  him  with  house,  barn,  60 
acres  of  land,  pay  £56  10  s.  as  salary.  New  Hurley  should 
pay  £33  10  s.  annually.  About  ten  years  afterwards  his  salary 
was  increased  to  £114,  New  Paltz  paying  two  thirds  and  New 
Hurley  one  third. 

In  the  early  part  of  his  ministry  he  boarded  with  Capt.  Lewis 
DuBois  who  resided  about  half  way  between  New  Paltz  and 
New  Hurley.  His  daughter  Elizabeth  he  married.  In  his 
later  years  at  New  Paltz  he  built  the  Philip  D.  Elting  stone 
house,  still  standing  in  the  northern  part  of  our  village.  He 
was  the  only  minister  who  ever  built  a  house  at  New  Paltz. 
His  pastorate  covered  the  eventful  period  of  the  Revolutionary 
war  and  the  reunion  of  the  Conferentia  party  with  the  church. 
The  period  succeeding  the  Revolutionary  war  was  not  favor- 
able to  the  growth  of  religion  owing  to  the  influence  of  French 
thought  and  French  skepticism  and  we  may  suppose  that  New 
Paltz  did  not  entirely  escape  the  contagion.  During  the  long 
period  of  his  pastorate  102  in  all  were  added  to  the  church, 
including  the   19  from  the  Conferentia  church.     Toward  the 


156  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

close  of  his  ministry,  which  ended  in  1796,  he  preached  occa- 
sionally in  English,  which  he  had  learned  sufficiently  for  that 
purpose  and  which  pleased  the  younger  members  of  his  con- 
gregation. He  is  described  as  a  man  of  deep  thought,  abun- 
dant in  labors  and  holding  strongly  to  Calvinistic  doctrines. 

A  loose  slip  of  paper  in  the  church  book  dated  1782,  shows 
that  Joseph  Coddington  had  been  reader  and  singer  in  the 
church  and  Simeon  Low  was  his  successor.  The  paper,  which 
is  a  subscription  list,  commences  as  follows :  "Whereas  read- 
ing and  singing  during  religious  service  are  not  only  beautiful, 
but  in  accordance  with  the  word  of  God  and  the  canons  of  the 
church,  therefore  the  consistory,  after  ]\Ir.  Coddington  for 
different  reasons  had  resigned,  have  unanimously  elected  Mr. 
Simeon  Low  and  contracted  with  him  for  £3  annually." 

Rev.  John  H.  jMeyer 

The  next  minister  was  Rev.  John  H.  ]\Ieier.  He  w-as  a 
graduate  of  Columbia  College  and  had  studied  with  Rev.  Dr. 
John  H.  Livingston.  Mr.  Meier  was  called  to  the  pastorate 
of  the  churches  of  New  Paltz  and  New  Hurley  in  1799.  His 
call  stipulated  that  he  was  to  preach  three-fifths  of  the  year  at 
New  Paltz  and  two-fifths  of  the  year  at  New  Hurley  and  that 
the  services  should  be  performed  one  half  in  Dutch  and  one 
half  in  English.  As  his  salary  he  received  £135,  besides  a 
house,  barn  and  60  acres  of  land  at  New  Paltz.  He  was  to  call 
on  each  family  in  the  congregation  once  in  two  years.  From 
this  time  the  church  records  are  written  in  English.  He  re- 
mained only  a  little  over  three  years,  when  he  received  a  call 
from  the  church  at  Schenectady.  During  his  pastorate  22  were 
received  as  members  of  the  church.  154  were  baptized  and  88 
marriages  were  performed. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  157 

Rev.  Peter  D.  Freligh 

The  church  was  without  a  minister  about  four  years  and 
then  a  call  was  made  by  the  two  churches  upon  Rev.  Peter  D. 
Freligh,  who  accepted.  He  was  a  graduate  of  Columbia  Col- 
lege, his  father  and  uncle  were  ministers  and  he  had  previously 
had  charge  of  a  church  in  the  northern  part  of  the  state.  He 
preached  alternately  in  English  and  Dutch.  He  was  faithful 
in  catechising  the  young  and  his  sermons  were  sound  and  in- 
teresting. He  remained  until  181 5,  when  he  removed  to  Ac- 
quacanock,  N.  J.  During  his  pastorate  82  persons  joined  the 
church  and  177  marriages  were  solemnized. 

Rev.  William  R.  Bogardus 

Rev.  Wm.  R.  Bogardus  was  the  next  minister,  his  pastorate 
commencing  in  181 7.  He  was  a  graduate  of  Union  College, 
Schenectady,  and  of  the  Theological  Seminary  at  New  Bruns- 
wick, N.  J.  He  was  a  young  man  when  he  came  to  New  Paltz. 
For  eleven  years  he  served  the  churches  at  New  Paltz  and  New 
Hurley,  riding  back  and  forth  on  horseback.  From  1828  to 
1 83 1  he  was  pastor  of  the  New  Paltz  church  alone.  Besides 
his  other  qualifications  as  a  preacher  and  pastor  he  had  the  gift 
of  song  in  a  remarkable  degree  and  even  in  old  age  would  lead 
in  the  singing.  He  is  remembered  by  the  old  people  as  an  elo- 
quent preacher  of  the  word  of  God  and  a  faithful  and  con- 
scientious pastor.  His  ministry  was  greatly  blessed.  During 
his  pastorate  280  joined  the  church,  696  were  baptized  and  379 
marriages  performed.  In  was  during  his  pastorate  that  the 
first  great  wave  of  temperance  reform  swept  over  the  state  and 
Mr.  Bogardus  was  one  of  its  pioneers  in  Ulster  county.  When 
a  new  barn  was  erected  at  the  parsonage  a  pitcher  of  cold 
water,  flanked  with  temperance  tracts  took  the  place  of  the 


158  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

strong  drink  customary  on  such  occasions.  In  1831  he  ac- 
cepted a  call  from  the  church  at  Acquanonck,  N.  J.,  and  in 
1856  retired  from  the  ministry. 

Rev.  Douw  Van  Olinda 

The  next  minister  was  Rev.  Douw  Van  Olinda.  He  was  a 
graduate  of  the  Theological  Seminary  at  New  Brunswick,  N.  J., 
and  before  coming  to  New  Paltz  had  been  minister  at  Cana- 
joharie,  N.  Y.  His  first  service  at  New  Paltz  was  on  the  first 
Sunday  in  January,  1832,  and  he  remained  at.  New  Paltz  twelve 
years.  The  period  of  his  pastorate  was  a  time  of  active  public 
enterprise  in  the  town,  marked  by  the  building  of  the  New  Paltz 
Academy,  the  New  Paltz  turnpike  and  that  portion  of  the  pres- 
ent church  building  that  now  constitutes  its  eastern  extension. 
In  the  building  of  the  Academy  he  took  a  very  active  part  and 
may  we  think  be  considered  the  prime  mover.  He  was  pos- 
sessed of  much  executive  ability.  His  sermons  were  preached 
without  any  notes.  In  1839  the  brick  church  was  built  to  take 
the  place  of  the  old  stone  church  which  had  been  the  house  of 
worship  for  more  than  60  years.  The  congregation  was  now 
too  large  for  this  old  church  building. 

After  due  consideration  it  was  decided  that  the  new  church 
edifice  should  be  of  brick.  Its  dimensions  were  as  follows : 
length  66  feet,  width  54  feet,  height  26  feet.  It  was  modeled 
after  the  church  of  New  Hackensack  in  every  respect  except 
the  steeple.  The  portico,  with  its  pillars,  and  the  vestibule, 
likewise  the  steeple  and  clock  were  constructed  as  they  remain 
to  the  present  day.  A  basement  was  made  under  the  edifice 
in  which  prayer  meetings  and  Sunday  school  have  since  been 
held.  The  stones  of  the  old  church  went  into  the  basement 
and  foundation  walls  and  so  did  the  stones  of  the  LeFevre 
house,  which  until  that  time  had  occupied  what  is  now  the 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  159 

northern  part  of  the  churchyard.  The  bell  of  the  old  church 
went  into  the  school  house  and  a  new  one,  costmg  $375,  was 
presented  to  the  consistory  by  the  citizens  of  the  place  and  this, 
with  its  mellow  tones,  still  continues  to  summon  the  worshipers 
to  the  house  of  God. 

In   1844  Rev.  Douw  Van  Olinda  resigned  his  position  as 
pastor  and  took  charge  of  a  church  at  Fonda,  N.  Y. 


i6o  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 


CHAPTER  XVI 

Old  County  Records  at  Kingston 

In  the  county  clerk's  office  at  Kingston  is  a  box  containing 
a  number  of  ancient  papers. 

Among  the  most  interesting  and  valuable  of  these  old  papers 
is  the  Proceedings  of  the  Board  of  Supervisors  from  1710  to 
1 73 1,  inclusive,  written  in  English,  in  a  plain  hand. 

It  appears  from  this  document  that  in  1710  there  were  only 
five  towns  in  the  county :  Kingston,  Hurley,  Marbletown, 
Rochester  and  New  Paltz.  Before  the  close  of  this  record  in 
1 73 1  the  number  of  towns  in  the  county  had  greatly  increased 
and  included  New  Windsor  and  other  places  in  what  is  now 
Orange  county  and  also  what  is  now  Delaware  county.  The 
only  business  performed  by  the  supervisors  in  those  days,  as 
appears  from  this  record,  was  the  auditing  of  bills  against  the 
county.  Most  of  these  bills  were  for  bounties  for  killing 
wolves.  Solomon  DuBois  of  Poughwoughtenonk  killed  12 
wolves  in  one  year  and  for  a  number  of  years  was  the  cham- 
pion wolf  slayer  in  the  county.  Possibly  a  number  of  these 
wolves  were  caught  in  the  trap  now  in  the  Memorial  House, 
which  caught  the  last  wolf  in  this  town  and  was  at  the  time 
the  property   of  Josiah   DuBois,  great-grandson   of   Solomon. 

The  county  treasurer  in  1710,  as  appears  from  this  record, 
was  Jean  Cottin.  who  after  serving  the  New  Paltz  people  for 
manv  years  as  their  schoolmaster,  moved  to  Kingston,  married 
the  widow  of  Louis  DuBois  the  Patentee,  long  carried  on  the 
mercantile  business  and  when  he  died  left  his  property  to  the 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  i6i 

church.  Monsieur  Cottin  was  county  treasurer  for  several 
years  and  on  two  or  three  occasions,  when  the  county  was  in 
debt  a  little,  he  advanced  the  needed  sum.  He  charged  for  nis 
services  one  year  £2. 

Roelif  Elting,  the  ancestor  of  the  New  Paltz  Eltings,  had 
not  yet  moved  from  Kingston  and  represented  that  town  in  the 
Board  of  Supervisors  in  171 1  and  1712. 

Col.  Henry  Beekman,  who  with  Capt.  Garton  represented  the 
county  in  the  colonial  legislature  in  1710,  brought  in  to  the 
supervisors  "an  account  of  wine  expended  the  third  and  fourth 
days  of  October  last  when  his  Excellency  the  Governor  was  in 
Kingston  to  the  value  of  at  least  £3."  The  supervisors  did  not 
allow  this  bill,  thinking  no  doubt  that  if  he  was  disposed  to 
feast  the  Governor  he  should  not  ask  the  county  to  pay 
the  bill. 

The  next  year,  in  171 1,  Col.  Beekman  is.  allowed  a  charge 
of  £5  for  a  present  to  the  Esopus  Indians.  In  171 3  Major 
John  Hardenbergh  is  allowed  ii  16  shillings  for  a  present  to 
the  Indians  and  Frederick  Van  Vliet  is  allowed  £1  for  five 
days  spent  in  going  to  the  Indians.  In  1714  he  is  allowed  a 
charge  of  10  shillings  for  going  to  the  Indians. 

In  1714  Abraham  DuBois,  the  last  survivor  of  the  Patentees, 
represented  New  Paltz  in  the  Board  of  Supervisors.  Evert 
Wynkoop  represented  Kingston,  Matthew  Ten  Eyck  repre- 
sented Hurley  and  Capt.  Thomas  Garton  Marbletown.  This 
year  the  Supervisors  decided  that  they  would  pay  Col.  Henry 
Beekman  for  his  expenses  in  coming  and  going,  while  he  was 
serving  as  representative  in  the  colonial  legislature,  but  not  for 
the  time  while  there.  Col.  Beekman  asked  that  if  the  charge 
were  not  paid  by  the  king  if  it  might  be  promised  by  the 
Supervisors,  but  they  decided  that  it  was  not  "cognizable"  so 
far  as  they  were  concerned. 


i62  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

In  this  year,  1714,  appears  the  first  charge  for  laying  out 
highways.  The  next  year  Joseph  Hasbrouck  of  Guilford,  Capt. 
Egbert  Schoonmaker  and  Arion  Gerison  bring  in  a  charge 
as  connnissioners  for  laying  out  highways.  In  the  same 
year  the  Supervisors  voted  fioo  for  repairing  court  house 
and  jail. 

In  1716  Solomon  DuBois  of  New  Paltz  killed  no  less  than 
12  wolves,  for  which  he  is  allowed  £7  4  shillings  as  bounty  by 
the  Supervisors.  In  previous  years  he  had  also  headed  the 
list  as  the  foremost  wolf  killer  in  the  county.  In  1712  there 
were  21  killed  in  all,  of  which  number  6  were  slain  by  Solo- 
mon DuBois,  I  by  his  brother  Abraham  DuBois,  2  by  Louis 
Bevier  and  i  by  Moses  Cantain,  who,  about  1704,  moved 
from  New  Paltz  to  Ponckhockie.  In  171 3  Solomon  DuBois 
headed  the  list  with  6  wolves  killed  and  in  1714  he  slew  5  and 
no  other  person  more  than  2.  In  171 7  he  slaughtered  4  wolves, 
but  this  number  was  excelled  by  Jacobus  Swartwout,  who 
killed  6.  Wolves  appear  to  have  been  more  numerous  at  New 
Paltz  than  elsewhere.  The  names  of  Daniel  DuBois  and 
Hugo  Freer,  Jr.  appear  among  those  killing  wolves  in  171 7. 
The  Dubois  brothers,  sons  of  Louis  the  Patentee,  especially 
distinguished  themselves  as  wolf  hunters,  the  names  of  David 
DuBois  of  Rochester  and  Jacob  of  Hurley  appearing  on  the 
list  in  1 71 7.  In  the  latter  case  however  the  record  says 
"killed  by  his  negro." 

The  different  towns  in  the  county  were  represented  in  the 
Board  of  Supervisors  in  1710  as  follows:  Kingston,  Edward 
Whitaker;  Hurley,  Capt.  Mattys  Ten  Eyck;  Marbletown, 
Capt.  Charles  Brodhead ;  Rochester,  Capt.  Jochim  Schoon- 
maker;  New  Paltz,  Left.  Solomon  DuBois. 

All  the  Supervisors  with  one  exception  are  set  down  with 
their  military  titles. 


HISTOkY  OF  XEJV  PALTZ  163 

The  ditterent  charges  against  the  county  allowed  by  the 
Supervisors  in  17 10  are  as  loUows : 


Col.  Beekman,  services  as  representative  i2j 

Capt.  Garton,  services  as  representative  2j 

Jean  Cottin,  count}-  treasurer 2 

Da^-id  DuBois,  killing  2  wolves i 

Gerrit  Decker,                i        '      o 

ComeHus  Litts,              2        '      i 

Jacob  Vemooy,              i       ''      o 

Solomon  DuBois,          2       "      i 

Philip  DuBois,               i       "      o 

Peter  Jansen,                  2       "       i 

Sever\-n  Tenhout           i               o 

Jan  W'erts,                     3       "      i 

Louis  Bevier,                  2               i 

Aaron  Genton,               i               o 

Jacob  Barentse,  for  ringing  the  bell.  .  .  2 

WilUam  Xottingham,  services  as  clerk.  9 

^Nlattys  Slecht o 

Bemardus  Swartsvout,   i  years  service 

as  messenger  and  i  load  of  wood.  ...  4 


Total t95       2s     6d 

In  171 1  in  addition  to  the  usual  charges  Mariys  Matt\-son 
is  allowed  ±5  for  "making  carriages  for  ye  great  guns." 

In  1 71 7  the  towns  were  represented  in  the  Board  of  Super- 
visors as  follows  :  Kingston,  Major  Jonannes  W>-nkoop :  Hur- 
lev.  Nicholas  Roosa :  Marbleto\s-n.  Charles  Brodhead ;  Xew 
Paltz.  Joseph  Hasbrouck:    Rochester,  Lieut.  Da\-id  DuBois. 

In  addition  to  the  regular  charges  for  wolf  killing,  etc.,  Evert 


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i64  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Wynkoop  is  allowed  12  shillings  for  half  of  vat  beer  for  the 
Assessors  and  Tunis  Tappan  is  allowed  a  charge  for  meat, 
drink  and  house  room  for  the  Assessors. 

In  the  older  books  in  the  County  Clerk's  office  are  several 
records  of  matters  of  interest  to  New  Paltz  people  as  follows : 

Could  Not  Build  a  Church  by  Tax 

In  1 71 6  an  agreement  was  made  by  the  New  Paltz  people 
to  erect  a  new  church  edifice  and  this  action  was  duly  recorded 
in  French  in  one  of  the  old  record  books.  Afterwards  it  was 
concluded  that  this  agreement  was  not  legal;  so  the  church 
was  built  by  voluntary  contribution.  The  entry  on  the  county 
record  is  marked  "Cancelled,"  and  four  years  later  appears  the 
following  entry  in  English,  signed  by  Abraham  Deyo  :  I,  Abra- 
ham Deyo,  having  caused  a  certain  writing,  made  by  the  major 
part  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  of  the  New  Paltz  concerning 
the  building  of  a  common  house  for  the  worship  of  God  and 
other  uses  for  the  town,  to  be  recorded  and  by  experience  have 
found  that  the  said  writing  is  and  may  be  a  breach  of  ye  peace 
of  said  town,  concerning  said  town  house  and  ye  building 
thereof,  I  do  hereby  order  and  direct  the  said  writing  to  be 
cancelled  on  record  as  if  it  had  never  been. 

Wills  of  Early  New  Paltz  People 

The  oldest  books  of  record  have  a  few  wills  of  New  Paltz 
people,  Jumbled  in  with  deeds  and  other  legal  papers.  Among 
these  wills  are  the  following :  of  Louis  Bevier  the  Patentee,  in 
Dutch,  dated  in  1722;  of  Abraham  Deyo,  son  of  Pierre  the 
Patentee,  in  French,  dated  1725;  of  Andre  LeFevre,  eldest  son 
of  Simon  LeFevre  the  Patentee,  in  English,  dated  in  1738;  of 
Cornelius  DuBois  of  Poughwoughtenonk,  dated  1780;  of  Dan- 


HISTO'RY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  165 

iel  LeFevre  of  Bontecoe,  dated  in  1784;  of  Jacob  I.  Hasbrouck 
of  Marbletown,  dated  in  1818. 

Other  Valuable  Papers 

Other  valuable  ancient  records  concerning  New  Paltz  people 
in  the  County  Clerk's  office  are  quit  claims,  given  by  the  chil- 
dren of  Louis  DuBois  the  Patentee  to  each  other  for  their 
shares  in  their  father's  estate  in  1706;  an  acknowledgment, 
dated  in  1714,  from  Louis  Bevier  of  Marbletown  and  his  wife, 
Elizabeth  Hasbrouck,  that  they  had  received  certain  property 
from  Jacob  Hasbrouck,  Andre  LeFevre  and  Louis  DuBois, 
executors  of  Jean  Hasbrouck  the  Patentee;  a  deed,  dated  in 
1704,  from  A'loses  Cantain  of  Kingston  and  Mary,  his  wife,  to 
Hattys  DuBois. 

The  most  interesting  of  these  old  records  in  our  estimation 
is  a  deed  of  gift,  dated  in  1705,  from  Anthony  Crispell  the 
Patentee  to  his  daughter  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Elias  Uine  (Ein), 
of  four  lots  at  New  Paltz :  the  first  located  on  the  south  side 
of  the  Paltz  creek,  between  the  Bontekous  kill  and  a  lot  of  the 
heirs  of  Simon  LeFevre ;   second  lot  lying  on  the  south  side  of 

Bontekou's  kill,  in  an  elbow  called  in  Dutch in  heyning ; 

the  third  lot  lying  on  the  north  side  of  the  Paltz  creek,  between 
a  lot  of  Isaac  DuBois  and  a  lot  of  the  heirs  of  Simon  LeFevre, 
on  the  side  of  the  farthest  Bontekou ;  the  fourth  lot  lying  on 
the  north  side  of  the  Paltz  creek,  opposite  the  house  of  Abra- 
ham Freer,  in  a  half  moon.  This  deed  of  gift  further  provides 
that  after  the  death  of  Elias  Uine  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Cris- 
pell, the  property  shall  go  to  their  descendants  forever  and  shall 
never  be  sold  to  strangers,  but  that  it  may  be  sold  to  descendants 
of  the  said  Anthony  Crispell. 

The  foregoing  record  is  specially  interesting  to  the  writer 
because  Bontekous  kill,  still  known  by  that  name,  is  the  brook 


i66  HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z 

in  which,  when  a  small  boy  he  would  stop  to  fish  on  his  way 
home  from  school.  The  Eins  still  own  and  occupy  the  first 
mentioned  of  the  four  lots  and  the  LeFevres  still  own  and 
occupy  the  adjoining  farm,  on  which  Isaac,  son  of  Simon  the 
Patentee,  located  probably  about  1718. 

But  the  greatest  value  that  attaches  to  this  record  is  the  fact 
that  it  shows  that  Abraham  Freer,  second  son  of  Hugo  the 
Patentee,  as  early  as  1705  had  moved  from  the  village  and  built 
a  house  five  miles  north,  near  the  northern  bounds  of  the  patent, 
directly  across  the  Wallkill  from  the  piece  of  lowland  still 
called  the  Half  Moon  and  owned  by  the  Eins  until  about  1880. 
On  this  spot,  about  200  yards  south  of  the  Bontecoe  school- 
house  and  about  half  a  mile  south  of  Perrine's  bridge,  still 
stands  an  old  stone  house,  which  may  be  the  identical  house 
built  by  Abraham  Freer. 


HISTO'RV  OF  NEW  PALTZ  167 


CHAPTER  XVII 

Signers  of  the  Articles  of  Association 

The  descendants  of  all  persons  who  signed  the  Articles  of 
Association  are  admitted  to  membership  in  the  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution  and  other  patriotic  societies  of  the  preS' 
ent  day.  The  Articles  of  Association  were  adopted  on  the 
29th  day  of  April,  1775,  ten  days  after  the  fight  at  Lexington, 
by  the  "Freemen,  Freeholders  and  Inhabitants  of  the  City  and 
County  of  New  York,"  and  copies  of  the  document  were  trans- 
mitted to  all  parts  of  the  province  of  New  York  for  signers. 
The  language  of  these  Articles  of  Association  was  very  bold 
and  shows  a  spirit  of  determined  opposition  to  British  tyranny. 
In  the  various  towns  in  Ulster  county  most  of  the  people  signed 
the  document.     The  heading  was  as  follows : 

articles  of  association  ■  ! 

"Persuaded  that  the  salvation  of  the  rights  and  liberties  of 
America  depends,  under  God,  on  the  firm  union  of  its  inhabi- 
tants in  a  vigorous  prosecution  of  the  measures  necessary  for 
its  safety,  and  convinced  of  the  necessity  of  preventing  the 
anarchy  and  confusion  which  attend  a  dissolution  of  the  powers 
of  government,  we,  the  Freemen,  Freeholders,  and  Inhabitants 
(of  the  City  and  County  of  New  York),  being  greatly  alarmed 
at  the  avowed  design  of  the  ministry  to  raise  a  revenue  in 
America,  and  shocked  by  the  bloody  scene  now  acting  in  the 
Massachusetts  Bay,  do,  in  the  most  solemn  manner,  resolve 
never  to  become  slaves ;    and  do  associate  under  the  ties  of 


i68  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

religion,  honor,  and  love  to  our  country  to  adopt  and  endeavor 
to  carry  into  execution,  whatever  measures  may  be  recom- 
mended by  the  Continental  Congress,  or  resolved  upon  by  our 
Provincial  Convention,  for  the  purpose  of  preserving  our  Con- 
stitution, and  opposing  the  execution  of  the  several  arbitrary 
and  oppressive  Acts  of  the  British  Parliament,  until  a  recon- 
ciliation between  Great  Britain  and  America  on  Constitutional 
Principles  (which  we  most  ardently  desire)  can  be  obtained; 
and  that  we  w^ill  in  all  things  follow  the  advice  of  our  General 
Committee,  respecting  the  purpose  aforesaid,  the  preservation 
of  peace  and  good  order,  and  the  safety  of  individuals  and 
private  property." 

In  New  Paltz  a  meeting  was  held  of  which  Nathaniel  Du- 
Bois  was  chairman  and  Joseph  Coddington  was  committee 
clerk.  There  were  in  all  218  signatures  in  this  town  to  the 
Articles  of  Association. 

The  names  of  the  men,  descendants  from  early  settlers  at 
New  Paltz,  appear  in  the  document  as  follows : 

Abraham  Deyo,  Abraham  Deyo,  Jr.,  Simon  Deyo,  Simon 
Deyo,  Jr.,  Christophel  Deyo,  Philip  Deyo,  Jonathan  Deyo, 
Daniel  Deyo,  Henry  Deyo,  Jr.,  John  B.  Deyo,  Johannes  Deyo, 
Jr.,  Peter  Deyo,  Christeyan  Deyo,  Benjamin  Deyo,  Nathaniel 
DuBois,  Louis  T.  DuBois,  Jacob  DuBois,  Hendricus  DuBois, 
Cornelius  DuBois,  Daniel  DuBois,  Isaac  DuBois,  Cornelius 
DuBois,  Jr.,  Simon  DuBois,  Hendricus  DuBois,  Jr.,  Methuse- 
lem  DuBois,  Benjamin  DuBois,  Abraham  DuBois,  Andreus 
DuBois,  Jr.,  Daniel  DuBois,  Jr.,  Andries  LeFevre,  Jr.,  Andries 
LeFevre,  Jonathan  LeFever,  Isaac  LeFever,  Abraham  LeFever, 
Daniel  LeFevre,  Matthew  LeFevre,  Solomon  LeFevre,  Na- 
thaniel LeFevre,  Petrus  LeFevre.  John  LeFevre,  Jr.,  John 
LeFevre,  Roelif  J.  Flting,  Abraham  Filing  Cornelius  Flting, 


•       HISTORY  OF  XEIV  PALTZ  169 

Solomon  Elting,  Petrus  Bevier,  Samuel  Bevier,  Solomon  Be- 
vier,  Jacob  Bevier,  Zacharias  Hasbrouck,  Jacob  Hasbrouck, 
Jr.,  Petrus  Hasbrouck,  Joseph  Hasbrouck,  Benjamin  Has- 
brouck, Jr.,  Josaphat  Hasbrouck,  Jesaias  Hasbrouck,  Jacobus 
Hasbrouck,  David  Hasbrouck,  Garret  Freer,  Jr.,  Petrus  Freer, 
Simon  Freer,  Daniel  Freer,  Jr.,  Hugo  Freer,  Jr.,  Isaac  Freer, 
Benjamin  Freer,  Jacob  T.  Freer,  Paulus  Freer,  Jonas  Freer, 
Jonas  Freer,  Jr.,  Joseph  Freer,  Johannes  Freer,  Daniel  Freer, 
Johannes  Low,  Solomon  Low.  Jehu  Low,  Johannis  AL  Low, 
Isaac  Low,  Simeon  Low,  David  Low,  John  A.  Harden- 
bergh,  Elias  Hardenbergh,  Peleg  Ransom,  John  McDaniel 
(McDonald),  \Vm.  Hood,  Abraham  Ein,  John  Terwilliger, 
Joseph  Terwilliger,  George  Wirtz,  Derrick  D.  Wynkoop, 
James  Done,  Abraham  Donaldson,  James  Auchmoutie, 
Thomas  Tompkins,  Jedediah  Deur,  Zophar  Perkins,  Oliver 
Grey,  Leonard  Lewis,  John  Stevens,  Daniel  Fowler,  Daniel 
Woolsey,  Alexander  Lane,  Abm.  Vandermerken,  Michael 
Devoe,  Richard  Tompkins,  William  Reeck.  Johannis  Walron, 
Petrus  \'an  Wagenen,  Ebenezer  Perkins,  Johannes  Eckert, 
Nathaniel  Potter,  Daniel  Diver,  Samuel  Johnson,  Ralph  Trow- 
bridge, and  others  whose  names  we  do  not  recognize  but  who 
were  probably  residents  in  the  territory  in  Esopus  and  Lloyd, 
then  a  part  of  Xew  Paltz. 


People  of  New  Paltz  ancestry  signed  the  document  in  other 
towns  of  the  county  as  follows  : 

Kingston — Joshua  DuBois,  Jeremiah  DuBois,  Jacobus  Du- 
bois, Samuel  DuBois,  William  DuBois,  Hezekiah  DuBois, 
Johannis  N.  DuBois,  David  DuBois,  Hezekiah  DuBois,  Jr., 
Johannes  J.  DuBois,  Johannes  DuBois,  Elias  Hasbrouck,  Abm. 
A.  Hasbrouck,   Solomon  Hasbrouck,  Col.  A.   Hasbrouck,  A. 


I70  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Hasbrouck,  Jr.,  Samuel  Freer,  Jan  Freer,  Solomon  Freer,  John 
Freer,  Jacob  Freer,  Gerrit  Freer. 

Hurley — Johannes  DuBois,  Jacob  DuBois,  Jr.,  Hugo  Freer, 
Jacob  Freer,  Jr.,  Benj.  H.  Freer,  Hugo  J.  Freer,  Jonathan 
Freer,  Jecimia  Freer,  Samuel  LeFevre,  Simon  LeFevre,  Jacob 
LeFevre,  Coenradt  LeFevre. 

Marbletown  —  Coenradt  DuBois,  David  Freer,  Philip  B. 
Freer,  Jacob  S.  Freer,  Severyn  Hasbrouck,  John  Hasbrouck, 
Isaac  Hasbrouck,  Jr.,  Joseph  Hasbrouck,  Jr.,  Jacobus  B.  Has- 
brouck, Jacob  J.  Hasbrouck,  Jacob  I.  Hasbrouck,  Jacob  Has- 
brouck, Philip  B.  Bevier,  David  Bevier. 

New  Marlborough — Lewis  DuBois,  Henry  Deyo,  Senior. 

Rochester,  including  Wawarsing  —  Jonas  Hasbrouck,  Jo- 
hannes Bevier,  Simon  Bevier,  Benjamin  Bevier,  Andrew  Be- 
vier, Abraham  Bevier,  Jacob  Bevier,  Coenradt  Bevier,  Solomon 
Bevier,  Jesse  Bevier,  Josiah  Bevier,  Isaac  Bevier. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  171 

CHAPTER  XVIII 

New  Paltz  in  the  Revolution 

The  volume  published  by  the  State  in  1898  entitled  "New 
York  in  the  Revolution,"  contains  the  names  of  about  40,000 
soldiers  from  this  State.  The  list  as  published  in  the  volume 
mentioned  is  unsatisfactory  in  not  saying  what  towns  the  com- 
panies were  from. 

There  were  four  Ulster  Co.  Regiments  of  militia. 

The  First  Ulster  county  Regiment  was  sometimes  called  the 
Northern  Regiment,  and  was  drawn  mainly  from  the  northern 
part  of  the  county.     Johannes  Snyder  was  colonel. 

There  are  more  New  Paltz  names  in  the  Third  Regiment, 
John  Cantine  of  Stone  Ridge,  colonel,  than  in  any  other 
organization. 

In  the  Fourth  Ulster  county  regiment,  appear  also  a  large 
number  of  New  Paltz  names.  Jonathan  Hasbrouck  of  New- 
burgh,  was  colonel  of  this  regiment,  but  owing  to  his  ill  health 
it  was  most  of  the  time  commanded  by  Lieut-Col.  Johannes 
Hardenbergh,  Jr.,  of  Swartekill. 

As  to  the  names  appearing  under  the  head  of  "Land  Bounty 
Rights,"  the  following  explanation  is  given :  Toward  the  close 
of  the  war  of  the  Revolution  a  bounty  of  "Land  Rights"  was 
offered  to  officers  and  men  for  two  regiments  to  be  raised  for 
the  defense  of  the  state.  A  master  or  mistress  who  should 
deliver  an  able  bodied  slave  to  serve  was  entitled  to  one  Right. 
By  the  act  of  1778  each  militia  regiment  was  divided  into 
classes  of  15  men.  When  soldiers  were  needed  to  complete 
the  regiments  of  the  Line,  otherwise  known  as  Continentals, 
each  class  must  within  nine  davs  furnish  a  man  fully  armed 


172  HISTORY  OF  XEW  PALTZ 

and  equipped.  If  a  class  furnished  a  man  it  was  entitled  to 
a  money  bounty ;    afterward  a  land  bounty  was  added. 

There  is  no  evidence  from  the  state  documents  to  show  that 
the  men  who  signed  the  Land  Bounty  Rights  ever  saw  active 
service  and  Comptroller  Roberts  has  published  their  names  for 
whatever  they  may  be  worth.  He  says  additional  proof  is  re- 
quired to  show  that  any  of  the  names  that  appear  in  the  Land 
P>ouiUy  Rights  are  of  men  who  actually  served  in  the  army. 
We  find  a  large  portion  of  the  names  that  appear  under  the 
heading  of  "Land  Bounty  Rights"  also  appear  in  the  names  of 
the  militia  as  elsewhere  published. 

It  is  not  possible  to  tell  from  these  records,  as  published, 
whether  the  men  whose  names  are  given  below  resided  in  Xew 
Paltz  or  other  parts  of  the  county,  but  their  ancestors  were 
New  Paltz  Patentees,  the  Eltings  excepted  : 

1ST    ULSTER    COUNTY   REGIMENT 

Lieut..  Anthony  Freer. 

Abm.  Crispell.  Jacob  Crispell,  John  T.  Crispell.  Peter  T. 
Crispell,  Peter  J.  Crispell.  Benj.  Crispell,  John  J.  Crispell, 
Jacobus  DuBois,  James  DuBois,  \\'m.  DuBois,  David  DuBois, 
James  DuBois,  Jr.,  James  DuBois,  Jeremiah  DuBois,  Johannes 
DuBois.  John  DuBois.  John  I.  DuBois.  John  J.  DuBois,  John 
T.  DuBois,  :\Iatthew  DuBois.  Robert  DuBois,  Wm.  DuBois, 
Hendrich  Elting,  John  Elting.  Peter  Elting,  Peter  Elting.  Jr., 
^^'m.  Elting,  Garret  Freer.  Abm.  Freer.  Benj.  Freer.  Hugo 
Freer.  Jeremiah  Freer.  Jeremias  Freer,  Johanis  Freer,  Jonathan 
Freer,  Peter  Freer,  Samuel  Freer.  Jacobus  Hasbrouck.  Daniel 
Hasbrouck.  Jacobus  Hasbrouck.  Jr..  John  Hasbrouck.  Jonathan 
Hasbrouck,  Solomon  Hasbrouck,  Conrad  LeFevre,  Jonathan 
LeFevre. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  173 

LAND    BOUNTY   RIGHTS 

Capt.,  Simon  LeFevre. 

Abraham  DuBois,  Cornelius  DuBois,  Hezekiah  DuBois, 
Jacob  DuBois,  Johannis  DuBois,  Jr.,  Peter  DuBois,  Samuel 
DuBois,  James  DuBois,  Joshua  DuBois,  Jacob  Freer,  Petrus 
Freer,  A.  Hasbrouck,  Jr.,  Abraham  Hasbrouck,  Elias  Has- 
brouck,  John  Hasbrouck,  Jr. 

2ND   ULSTER   COUNTY   REGIMENT 

Capt.,  ]\Iatthew  DuBois. 

LAND    BOUNTY    RIGHTS 

Isaac  DuBois. 

3RD    ULSTER    COUNTY   REGIMENT 

Capt.,  John  Hasbrouck. 

Lieuts.,  Jacobus  Hasbrouck,  Cornelius  DuBois.  Daniel  Freer, 
Joseph  Hasbrouck.  Josiah  Hasbrouck.     Ensign.  Levi  Deyo. 

Abm.  Bevier.  Abm.  Bevier,  Jr.,  Benj.  Bevier,  Cornelius  Be- 
vier.  Jacob  Bevier,  Conrad  Bevier,  jNIatthew  Bevier,  Nathaniel 
Bevier,  Petrus  Bevier.  Abm.  Crispell,"  Henry  Deyo,  John  Deyo, 
Simon  Deyo,  Abm.  B.  Deyo,  Levi  Deyo.  John  Deyo,  Abraham 
DeyO,  Jr.,  Ezekiel  Deyo.  Daniel  Deyo,  Isaac  Deyo,  Andrew  Du- 
Bois, Asaph  DuBois.  Conrad  DuBois,  Daniel  DuBois,  Daniel 
DuBois.  Jr..  Hendricus  DuBois.  Henry  DuBois,  Isaac  DuBois, 
Jacob  DuBois,  John  DuBois,  Jacobus  DuBois,  Mathusalem 
DuBois,  Nathaniel  DuBois.  Wessel  DuBois,  Abm.  Elting-, 
Isaac  Freer,  Thomas  Freer,  Jacob  Freer,  Jr.,  Jacob  J.  Freer, 


174  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Jacob  S.  Freer,  John  I.  Freer,  Paulus  Freer,  Peter  Freer, 
Joseph  Freer,  Sol.  Freer,  Jr.,  John  Hasbrouck,  Jonas  Hasbrouck 
Solomon  Hasbrouck,  Benj.  Hasbrouck,  John  Hasbrouck,  Jr., 
Severyn  Hasbrouck,  Andries  LeFevre,  Noah  LeFevre,  Jona- 
than LeFevre,  Solomon  LeFevre,  Matthew  LeFevre,  John  Le- 
Fevre. 

LAND   BOUNTY   RIGHTS 

Andries  Bevier,  Benj.  Bevier,  Jr.,  David  Bevier,  Elias  Be- 
vier,  Jacob  Bevier,  Jr.,  Johan.  Bevier,  Jr.,  Ph.  D.  Bevier,  Samuel 
Bevier,  Simon  Bevier,  Abm.  Deyo,  Henry  Deyo,  Jr.,  Levi  Deyo, 
Luke  Deyo,  Simon  Deyo,  Abm.  Deyo,  Benj.  Deyo,  Christopher 
Deyo,  Daniel  Deyo,  Hendricus  Deyo,  Johannis  Deyo,  Jr.,  Jona- 
than Deyo,  Philip  Deyo,  Solomon  Deyo,  Andries  DuBois,  Cor- 
nelius DuBois,  Garrit  DuBois,  Jonathan  DuBois,  Joseph  Du- 
Bois, Louis  J.  DuBois,  Samuel  DuBois,  Tobias  DuBois,  Abra- 
ham Kan,  Rcelif  Eltinge,  Abm.  Eltinge,  Cornelius  Eltinge, 
Ezekiel-  Eltinge,  Hendricus  Eltinge,  Jr.,  Josiah  Eltinge,  Jr., 
Noah  Eltinge,  Thomas  Eltinge,  Benjamin  Freer,  Daniel  Freer, 
Daniel  Freer,  Jr.,  Isaac  Freer,  Isaac  Freer,  Jr.,  Jeremiah  Freer, 
Johannis  Freer,  Jonas  Freer,  Petrus  Freer,  Simon  Freer,  Solo- 
mon Freer,  Jerry  Freer,  Jr.,  Nathaniel  LeFevre,  Abm.  Le- 
Fevre, Andries  LeFevre,  Andris  LeFevre,  Jr.,  Daniel  LeFevre, 
Isaac  LeFevre,  Jacob  LeFevre,  Johannes  LeFevre,  John  Le- 
Fevre, Matthew  LeFevre,  Nathan  LeFevre,  Peter  LeFevre,  Jr., 
Petrus  LeFevre,  Philip  LeFevre. 

4TH    ULSTER    COUNTY   REGIMENT 

Cols.,  Jonathan  Hasbrouck,  Johannes  Hardenbergh. 

Quartermaster,  Cornelius  DuBois,  Jr. 

Capts.,  Louis  J.  DuBois,  Jacob  Hasbrouck,  Jr. 

Lieuts.,   Andries   Bevier,  Joshua  DuBois,   Abm.   Deyo,  Jr., 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  175 

Anthony  Freer,  Petrus  Hasbrouck,  Matthew  LeFevre,  Simon 
LeFevre. 

Ensigns,  Mathuselem  DuBois,  Nathaniel  DuBois,  Daniel 
Bevier. 

Abm.  Bevier,  Cornelius  Bevier,  Daniel  Bevier,  Jonas  Beviei, 
Nathaniel  Bevier,  Andries  DuBois,  Hezekiah  DuBois,  Jona- 
than DuBois,  Nathaniel  DuBois,  William  DuBois,  Andries 
DuBois,  Jeremiah  Freer,  John  Freer,  Conrad  LeFevre. 

LAND    BOUNTY    RIGHTS 

Johannis  Bevier,  Jonathan  Bevier,  Hendricus  Deyo,  Louis 
DuBois,  Wilhelmus  DuBois,  Petrus  Eltinge,  Benjamin  I.  Freer, 
Benj.  T.  Freer,  Elisa  Freer,  Joannis  Freer,  Martinis  Freer, 
Cornelius  Hasbrouck,  Isaac  Hasbrouck,  Jonathan  Has- 
brouck. 

In  the  Fourth  Orange  County  Militia,  Col.  John  Hathorn, 
Joseph  Hasbrouck  of  Guilford  was  Lieut.-Col.  John,  Solo- 
mon and  Noah  LeFevre,  all  of  Kettleborough,  served  in  this 
regiment. 

In  the  Albany  County  Militia  appear  the  names  of  Lieut.- 
Col.  Cornelius  DuBois  and  Capt.  Benjamin  DuBois  of  Catskill. 

John  Freer  was  colonel  of  the  4th  Dutchess  Co.  Regi- 
ment. 

Peter  and  Simon  Freer  served  in  the  Sth  Dutchess  Co. 
Regiment. 

Abm.  Freer,  Jr.,  and  Thomas  Freer  served  in  the  Dutchess 
Co.  Minute  men. 

In  the  5th  Regiment  of  the  Line  or  Continentals  Louis 
DuBois  was  colonel,  Philip  DuBois  Bevier  and  David  DuBois 
were  captains. 

Berthold  Fernow,  custodian  of  the  department  of  manu- 
scripts at  the  state  library  at  Albany  published  in  1888  as  com- 


176  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

plete  a  list  as  could  then  be  obtained  of  New  York  Revolu- 
tionary officers  and  soldiers. 

In  the  list  we  find  the  following  names  of  people  who  were 
of  New  Paltz  lineage : 

Jonathan  Hasbrouck,  Col.,  4th  Regiment,  Ulster  county 
militia. 

Abraham  Hasbrouck,  Lieut.  Col.,  ist  or  Northern  Regiment, 
Ulster  Co.  militia,  October  25,  1775;  Col.  same  Regiment 
elected  February  13;    Commander  February  20,  1775. 

Elias  Hasbrouck,  Captain  3d  Regiment  New  York  Line, 
June  28,  1775;   Captain  of  a  company  of  Rangers  in  1777. 

Zachariah  DuBois,  Major  Cornwall  Regiment  Orange  County 
militia. 

Simon  LeFevre  was  reappointed  ist  Lieutenant,  7th  Com- 
pany, 1st  (or  Northern)  LUster  county  Regiment,  May  28,  1778, 
Captain  same  Company,  vice  Gerardus  Hardenbugh,  resigned 
October  23,  1779. 

The  following  commissions  at  the  dates  given  were  issued 
to  Lewis  DuBois,  of  Marlborough. 

Lewis  DuBois,  Captain,  3d  Regiment  N.  Y.  Line,  Dutchess 
county  Company,  July  3,  1775;  Captain,  4th  Ulster  county 
militia  Regiment  South  District  New  Marlborough  Precinct, 
Sept.  20,  1775;  Major,  N.  Y.  Line,  Feb.  9,  1776;  Colonel  5th 
Regiment,  N.  Y.  Line,  June  25,  1776,  resigned  Dec.  22,  1779, 
upon  reduction  of  regiment. 

Third  Regiment,  Ulster  Co.   Militia. 

COMMISSIONS    issued    OCT.    25,    1 775. 

ist  Company — Captain,  Lewis  J.  DuBois;  ist  Lieutenant, 
John  A.  Hardenbergh;  2nd  Lieutenant,  Matthew  LeFevre; 
Ensign,  Mathusalem  DuBois. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  177 

2d  Company — Captain,  Jacob  Hasbrouck,  Jun. ;  ist  Lieu- 
tenant, Abram  Deyou,  Jun. ;  2d  Lieutenant,  Petrus  Hasbrouck ; 
Ensign,  Samuel  Bevier. 

Third  Company,  no  names  given. 

COMMISSIONS    ISSUED    FEB.    21,    1 778. 

Jacob  Hasbrouck,  Jun.,  promoted  Major,  Vice  Joseph  Has- 
brouck, Lieutenant  Colonel,  February  21,  1778. 

1st  Company — Captain,  John  Hardenbergh ;  ist  Lieutenant, 
Jon'n  Terwilliger ;  2d  Lieutenant,  Daniel  Frere ;  Ensign,  Levi 
Deyou. 

2d  Company — Captain,  Abr'm  Deyou  ;  ist  Lieutenant,  Petrus 
Hasbrouck ;  2d  Lieutenant,  Samuel  Bevier ;  Ensign,  Joshuah 
Hasbrouck. 

COMMISSIONS   ISSUED   FEB.    1 7,    1780. 

Second  Lieutenant,  Josiah  Hasbrouck  vice  Bevier,  declined , 
Ensign,  Petrus  Bevier. 

In  Col.  John  Cantine's  Regiment,  3d  Ulster  Co.  militia,  2d 
New  Paltz  Company  served  Jonathan  LeFevre,  John  LeFevre, 
John  A.  LeFevre,  Matthew  LeFevre,  Philip  LeFevre,  all 
privates.  Noah  LeFevre  was  Sergeant  in  Brodhead's  Co., 
Hathorn's  Regiment,  Orange  Co.  militia. 


178  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 


CHAPTER  XIX 

Guarding  the  Frontier  from  Tories  and  Indians 

Col.  John  Cantine  of  the  Third  Ulster  County  Militia  was 
ranking  officer  in  1778  in  the  Rondout  Valley,  which  was  then 
the  frontier  and  exposed  to  attacks  from  the  Indians,  who 
would  travel  hundreds  of  miles  to  obtain  scalps  and  plunder 
and  spare  neither  age  nor  sex.  Col.  Cantine  lived  near  Stone 
Ridge.  His  father,  Peter  Cantine,  was  a  native  of  New  Paltz ; 
his  brother  Matthew  was  a  member  of  the  Council  of  Safety; 
his  sister  Catharine  w'as  the  wife  of  Daniel  LeFevre  of  Bonte- 
coe.  There  were  more  New  Paltz  men  in  this  regiment  than 
in  any  other.  The  First  and  Second  companies  were  officered 
altogether  by  New  Paltz  men. 

Joseph  Hasbrouck  of  Guilford  was  lieutenant  colonel  in  this 
regiment;  Jacob  Hasbrouck,  whose  residence  was  in  what  is 
now  the  Memorial  House  in  this  village,  was  a  captain  in  this 
regiment  and  afterwards  a  major;  his  son  Josiah  in  1780  re- 
ceived a  commission  as  second  lieutenant  in  this  regiment.  In 
this  regiment  also  Abraham  Deyo,  who  lived  on  Huguenot 
street,  where  Abm.  Deyo  Brodhead  now  lives,  was  captain  of 
the  Second  company ;  Petrus  Hasbrouck,  who  lived  about  three 
miles  north  of  this  village,  was  first  lieutenant.  In  the  First 
company  Lewis  J.  DuBois,  whose  house  is  still  standing  on  the 
east  side  of  the  Libertyville  ford,  was  captain;  John  A.  Har- 
denbergh  of  Guilford  was  first  lieutenant;  Matthew  LeFevre 
of  the  Plains  was  second  lieutenant;  Mathusalem  DuBois  of 
Nescatack  was  ensign.  Matthew  LeFevre's  brothers  John  and 
Jonathan  were  privates  in  the  Second  company  and  likewise 
their  cousins,  John  A.  and  Philip  LeFevre  of  Ktettleboro. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  179 

Col.  Cantine's  Letters  to  Gen.  Clinton 

From  letters  to  Gen.  Clinton,  which  are  now  published,  it 
is  evident  that  his  own  regiment  and  the  First  Ulster  Co.  Regi- 
ment, sometimes  called  the  Northern  Regiment,  which  was 
commanded  by  Col.  Johannes  Snyder,  were  both  stationed  in 
the  northwestern  part  of  our  county. 

The  time  when  these  letters  was  written  was  about  a  year 
after  the  surrender  of  Burgoyne  at  Saratoga,  after  which 
there  were  no  important  battles  in  this  state.  But,  as  will  be 
noted  from  the  letters,  the  First  and  Third  Ulster  County  regi- 
ments, commanded  respectively  by  Cols.  Snyder  and  Cantine, 
were  required  at  these  stations  on  the  western  frontiers  of 
Ulster  and  Orange  counties,  Col.  Cantine  being  in  command, 
not  only  of  his  own  regiment,  but  of  all  detachments  of  militia 
in  actual  service  on  the  frontier,  including,  not  only  the  two 
Ulster  county  regiments  mentioned,  but  detachments  from  the 
regiments  of  Colonels  Woodhull,  Hathorn,  Newkirk,  Has- 
brouck  and  Tusten.  These  were  all  Ulster  and  Orange  county 
men.  They  were  all  needed  to  protect  the  frontiers  from  the 
attacks  of  tories  and  Indians.  Their  task  was  especially  dis- 
agreeable, because  it  was  not  known  at  what  moment  a  force 
of  savages  might   swoop   down  on  the   scattered   habitations. 

In  a  letter  to  Gen.  Clinton,  written  July  nth,  1778,  Col. 
Cantine  says : 

"The  men  from  Ulster  County  are  posted,  40  at  Memema- 
coting.  130  at  Hunck,  80  at  Great  Shandaken,  and  at  Little 
Shandaken  the  whole  of  Col.  Snyder's  regiment,  which  Returns 
I  have  Not  as  yet  had.  The  Whole  Will  amount  to  about  400, 
a  Number  Quite  Sufficient,  I  believe,  to  Defend  posts  at  pres- 
ent where  the  proportions  But  Equal  out  the  Dififerent  Regi- 


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ments.  This  moment  I  am  informed  by  Col.  Newkark  that 
Several  of  the  Orange  County  men  are  on  their  Way  to  Peen- 
peck  and  Minsinck.  I  have  sent  Detachment  from  the  Dif- 
ferent posts  to  the  Delaware.  With  orders  to  act  against 
those  who  are  taken  an  active  part  against  us  as  Enemys, 
Leaveing  others  Unmolested,  excepting  those  In  whose  pos- 
session the  goods  robbed  from  the  Inhabitants  of  the  frontiers 
Should  Be  found. 

Have  also  at  the  unanimous  request  of  the  inhabitants  of 
Lurienkil,  Naponagh,  Warwasinck  and  the  Southern  part  of 
Rochester,  Changed  my  post  from  Lackawack  to  this  place 
(Honck  Falls),  finding  it  much  more  Convenient  for  keeping 
out  Scouts  and  patroHng  parties,  as  the  Woods  on  Both  Sides 
of  Lackawack  are  Exceeding  Rof  that  it  is  Impossible  to  keep 
out  Scouts  at  any  Distance  there.  By  the  Last  Returns  of 
Col.  Newkark,  of  the  Orange  County  at  Peenpeck  and  Mini- 
sinck,  there  where  about  Ninety  men  (that  is)  Eleven  from 
Col.  Woodhull's,  fifty-nine  of  Col.  Heathorne's,  twenty  of  Col. 
Tusten's." 

Money  Promised  When  He  was  Appointed  at  New  Paltz 
In  a  letter  written  at  Rochester,  Aug.  19,  Col.  Cantine  says: 

"I  would  Not  have  Changed  my  post  from  Lagawack  to 
Hunk  if  It  had  Not  Been  at  the  Unanimous  Request  of  the  In- 
habitants Concerned.  Not  But  I  judge  that  Lagawack  would 
have  answered  the  purpose  as  well  as  Hunk  (Except)  that  of 
Keeping  out  Scouting  parties  mentioned  in  my  Last  and  the 
additional  Expense  of  getting  up  supplys  for  the  Regiment. 

The  Little  money  I  was  able  to  advance  was  soon  Expended 
in  Supplying  the  Regiment  and  Col.  Newkark  makeing  Appli- 
cation to  me  for  money  in  favour  of  the  men  he  had  employed 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  i8i 

to  provide  for  the  party  at  Peenpack  and  Minisinck  till  Such 
Time  as  it  would  be  in  the  power  of  the  Commissary  to  Supply 
them  and  that  he  could  Buy  much  Cheaper  for  Cash;  and  as 
Your  Excellency  may  Remember  of  Signifying  at  the  time  of 
my  appointment,  at  ye  New  Paltz,  to  give  me  an  order  on  the 
treasurer  for  that  purpose,  I  haveing  my  promises,  on  the  Ex- 
spectative  of  Being  Supplyed  In  that  manner  and  therefor 
would  have  been  glad  to  have  Received  the  order.  But  as  it 
would  take  us  out  of  the  Common  Course  of  Business  I  Shall 
Endeavor  to  Do  without  it. 

Murder  by  Indians 

In  a  letter,  from  Col.  Newkirk,  forwarded  to  Gen.  Clinton 
by  Col.  Cantine,  it  is  stated  that  about  20  Indians  and  one 
McDonald,  a  Tory,  had  come  to  the  house  of  one  Brooks,  took 
the  whole  family,  11  in  all,  as  prisoners,  murdered  and  scalped 
one  who  was  wounded  and  carried  off  the  rest. 

Escaped  from  Indian  Captivity 

Another  letter  from  Cantine  to  Clinton  relates  the  wonderful 
story  of  the  capture  and  escape  of  George  Andries  and  Jacob 
Osterhout,  who  were  captured  by  the  Indians  under  a  Mohawk 
chief  and  were  carried  almost  to  Fort  Niagara ;  then  at  night 
while  the  savages  slept  Andries  made  a  desperate  attempt  for 
liberty,  got  an  ax  with  which  he  killed  the  three  Indians  who 
composed  the  party  together  with  two  squaws,  who  escaped. 
Andries  and  Osterhout  got  back  to  Ulster  county  in  19  days, 
almost  starved.  With  the  letter  to  Clinton  is  enclosed  the 
affidavits  of  Andries  and  Osterhout,  giving  a  full  account  of 
their  escape  from  Indian  captivity. 


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Paying  His  Men 

In  regard  to  paying  his  men  Col.  Cantine  writes : 

Your  Excellency  will  readily  conceive  that  the  making  of 
monthly  pay  abstract  for  this  Regim't  will  be  attended  with 
many  Difficulties,  when  you  consider  that  the  monthly  Detach- 
ment of  the  Different  Regim'ts,  of  which  this  is  composed,  Do 
commence  at  Different  Days.  I,  therefore  would  be  glad  to 
Draw  a  Sum  of  money  in  order  to  pay  off  the  different  com- 
panies as  their  time  expires,  making  an  abstract  of  the  whole 
at  the  time  when  I  shall  be  Discharged,  and  then  account  for 
the  sum  drawn. 

Cowardly  Behaviour  of  Orange  County  Militia 

In  a  letter  written  from  Marbletown  to  Gen.  Clinton,  Aug. 
28,  1778,  Col.  Cantine  says  : 

I  also  had  Information  of  the  Unsoldierly  Behaviour  of  the 
troops  at  them  posts,  which  Caused  my  Going  their  to  inquire 
into  the  matter  which,  haveing  Done,  I  found  that  also  to  Be 
true.  Capt.  Miller,  of  Col.  Heathorn's  Regiment,  haveing 
evecuated  his  post,  on  the  freevilous  Report  that  two  Indians 
haveing  Been  Seen  By  some  of  his  Scouts,  which  had  Been  out 
a  few  miles  into  the  woods.  He  went  off  in  Such  a  Hurry  as 
to  leave  his  Bread  in  the  oven  and  his  Beef  in  the  well.  Not- 
withstanding he  was  in  a  fort  which,  with  the  men  he  had  in  it, 
might  In  my  opinion  have  Been  Defended  against  five  hun- 
dred men.  Lieut.  Tryon,  of  Col.  Ellison's  Reg't,  Hearing  that 
the  enemy  was  back  of  Jacob  Dewitt's  mill  at  the  time  Mr, 
Brooks'  family  was  tacken,  Run  of,  saying  Every  man  for  him- 
self and  God  for  us  all,  and  went  of  with  the  greater  part  of 
his  company,  not  Returning  till  the  next  day — if  my  informa- 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  183 

tion  is  Right.  The  conduct  of  these  10  men  appeared  so  scan- 
dalous that  I  could  not  avoid  laying  them  under  Errest  and 
ordered  them  to  Repear  at  the  court  martial  at  Goshen  on  the 
25th  instant. 

200  Indians  Reported — Man  Shot 

The  guard  from  Shandaken  haveing  fetch  Down  the  Inhabi- 
tants of  Packatacan  with  some  of  their  Effects,  Returned  on 
the  Evening  of  the  26th  Instant.  Fetter  Hendrics,  who  left 
their,  Came  down  Immediately  after  them  with  the  following 
information  that  Harmania  Dumon  was  going  to  his  place  at 
Pancatack  and  meet  the  guard  Comeing  from  there  about  five 
miles  from  it.  Dumon  proceeded  on  to  his  house.  Loaded  his 
wagon  with  his  effects,  and  on  his  Return  about  two  miles  from 
his  house  was  shot  through  the  Belly.  Peter  Hendrics  further 
Says  that  there  was  two  Hundred  of  the  Enemy  and  few  Cattle 
that  Seame  to  have  Been  Left  was  all  taken. 

Time  of  Some  of  Col.  Jonathan  Hasbrouck's  Men  Expired 

As  the  time  of  Capt.  Conklen — who  Lays  at  that  post^ — of 
Colo.  Hasbrouck's  Regim't,  is  Expired  to  Day  and  No  Relief 
is  yet  Come  to  that  place,  I,  with  the  advice  of  Coll  Pawling, 
Called  some  of  my  own  Regim't  to  fetch  down  Dumon  as  well 
as  to  Distroy  ye  provision  on  that  place  agreeable  to  yours  on 
the  22d. 

Gen.  Clinton  Replies 

In  a  letter  to  Col.  Cantine,  written  at  Poughkeepsie,  Sept. 
6th,  1778,  Gov.  Clinton  speaks  of  the  recent  burning  of  three 
houses  and  the  killing  and  taking  prisoners  of  men  on  the 
frontier  and  says : 

This  Mischief,  if  I  understand  the  Geography  of  the  Country 


i84  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

and  am  not  mistaken  as  to  the  particular  Situation  of  the  above 
Persons'  Habitations,  might  have  been  prevented  had  your 
Guard  occupied  the  first  Post  at  Lackawack. 

Plunder  by  the  Militia 
Gen.  CHnton  says  moreover  in  another  letter : 

I  am  much  surprised  to  learn  that  the  Parties  of  Militia 
which  have  been  sent  out  to  the  settlements  on  the  Delaware  to 
remove  the  Cattle  and  Etifects  from  thence  and  thereby  prevent 
their  serving  as  Supplies  to  the  Enemy,  have  considered  what 
the}-  have  brought  off  as  Plunder  and  accordingly  appropriated 
the  same  to  their  own  use.  Upon  what  principle  or  by  what 
authority  this  is  done  you  best  know.  This  is  contrary  to  every 
Idea  of  Justice  and  good  Policy  and  will  be  productive  of  much 
Mischief  is  certain.  I  am  bound,  therefore,  to  call  upon  you  to 
exercise  your  Authority  as  Commanding  Officer  of  the  Detach- 
ments of  Militia  in  actual  Service  on  the  Frontier  of  Ulster 
and  Orange  Counties  not  only  to  prevent  the  like  abuses  in 
Future,  but  to  have  the  past  to  be  rectified  as  far  as  may  be 
in  your  Power. 

I  am  fully  convinced  that  we  are  not  to  have  Peace  on  our 
Frontier  until  the  Straggling  Indians  and  Tories  who  infest  it 
are  exterminated  or  drove  back  and  their  Settlements  destroyed. 
If,  therefore,  you  can  destroy  the  settlement  of  Acquago  it  will 
in  my  opinion  be  a  good  Piece  of  Service. 

Shortly  afterwards  in  September  Clinton  writes  to  Col. 
Cantine  that  he  has  received  a  petition  from  inhabitants  of 
Marbletown,  asking  that  a  guard  be  stationed  on  the  frontier 
of  that  town  to  scout  north  and  south  and  stating  that  he 
favored  granting  the  petition  provided  he  (Col.  Cantine)  ap- 
proved it  and  could  spare  the  men.  He  advises  him  to  confer 
with  Judge  Pawling  in  reference  to  this  matter,  asks  his  opinion 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  185 

as  to  the  number  of  men  needed  to  proceed  against  the  Indian 
town  of  Ocquago  and  says  that  he  approves  of  ofifering  a  reward 
of  $100  for  the  capture  of  ^^liddagh  and  Parks,  through  whose 
agency  much  mischief  had  been  done. 

A  week  afterwards  Col.  Cantine  writes  to  CHnton  that  he  had 
received  information,  supported  by  affidavits,  that  Brant  the 
Indian  leader,  was  on  the  war  path,  with  a  force,  variously  esti- 
mated at  from  200  to  450,  that  he  has  visited  German  Flats 
and  Unadilla  and  it  was  reported  would  strike  a  blow  some- 
where in  this  quarter.  As  his  men  are  not  acquainted  with  the 
woods  he  asks  for  authority  to  employ  one  or  two  spies  to  go  as 
far  as  the  Delaware  and  give  timely  notice  of  the  coming  of 
Brant's  savage  warriors ;  he  thinks  that  600  or  700  men  would 
be  needed  to  attack  the  Indian  town  of  Ochquago.  He  adds : 
But  as  my  Regt.  now  Stands  it  is  not  in  my  power  to  undertake 
an  Expedition  of  that  nature,  as  the  Reliefs  are  Comeing  and 
going  every  week  in  the  month.  I  have  consulted  with  Judge 
Pawling  But  he  thinks  it  will  not  answer  with  militia,  as  they 
are  called  out  in  classes,  as  many  are  men  you  can  not  depend 
on  unless  the  number  be  greater  than  I  mentioned. 

On  the  2 1  St  of  October  Gen.  Clinton  writes  to  Col.  Cantine 
that  Gen.  W'ashington  has  sent  him  information,  corroborating 
that  from  other  sources  that  the  Senecas  and  other  tribes  of 
Indians  are  prepared  to  attack  the  settlements.  He  considers 
Minisink  in  the  most  imminent  danger  and  says  that  Col.  Cort- 
landt's  regiment  is  on  the  w^ay  from  Peekskill  to  Rochester 
and  that  his  brother's  whole  brigade  will  probably  be  sent  out 
for  duty  on  the  frontier ;  but  as  it  will  be  some  time  before 
they  arrive  a  greater  proportion  of  militia  should  be  called  into 
the  service. 

On  the  22nd  of  November  Gen.  Clinton  writes  to  Cantine 
from  Po'keepsie  that  he  had  received  a  letter  from  Col.  Cort- 


i86  HISTORY  OF  XEIV  PALTZ 

landt  (who  it  is  evident  had  then  arrived  with  his  regiment) 
that  it  would  now  be  safe  to  allow  the  militia  in  actual  service 
on  the  frontier  in  Ulster  county  to  return  home  except  about 
70  to  be  stationed  as  follows :  2  officers  and  25  men  at  Shanda- 
ken,  I  officer  and  10  men  at  Yeugh's  creppelbush,  i  officer  and 
10  men  at  Queens  kill,  2  officers  and  20  men  at  ^Mamakating. 
Gen.  Clinton  says :  As  I  am  extremely  desirous  of  making  their 
Duty  as  little  burthensome  as  may  be  consistent  with  the  safety 
of  the  frontier  settlement,  it  is  therefore  my  desire  that  you 
dismiss  for  the  present  all  but  the  above  number. 

Next  on  the  file  is  a  letter  dated  Dec.  13,  from  Capt.  Wm. 
Johnson,  who  was  a  ^Mohawk  chief,  and  three  other  chiefs, 
threatening  vengeance  in  case  the  people  on  the  Delaware  above 
Econack  were  molested. 

April  2 1  St,  1779,  \V.  ]\Ialcolm  writes  to  Gen.  CHnton  from 
iMinisink  that  as  his  regiment  has  been  incorporated  with  Spen- 
cer's all  his  officers  except  tw'o  or  three  have  resigned  and  he 
shall  do  so  too ;  moreover  that  the  frontier  is  now  unprotected ; 
w^orst  of  all  about  40  savages  have  attacked  Lacawack  and 
burned  the  place  and  houses  within  13  miles  of  the  River. 

On  the  25th  of  April  Col.  Cortlandt  writes  from  Rochester  to 
Gen.  Clinton  that  he  had  received  orders  from  Gen.  Washing- 
ton to  march  his  regiment  immediately  to  ^linisink  and  he  sup- 
poses he  will  go  to  Wyoming;  his  absence  will  leave  the  fron- 
tier unprotected. 

Two  days  later,  April  27th,  1779.  A.  De  Witt,  John  Brod- 
head  and  64  other  citizens,  writing  from  Rochester,  send  a 
petition  to  Gen.  Clinton  stating  that  Col.  Cortlandt  (who  had 
been  protecting  the  frontier)  had  received  marching  orders 
from  Gen.  Washington  and  asking  that  a  sufficient  guard  might 
be  furnished  to  protect  them  from  the  savages. 

On  the  29th  of  April  Clinton  writes  to  Cortlandt  wishing 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  187 

him  an  agreeable  march  and  stating  that  he  had  ordered  a  fourth 
part  of  Col.  Cantine's  and  a  fourth  part  of  Col.  Snyder's  regi- 
ments to  occupy  the  posts  that  he  (Cortlandt)  now  holds,  until 
he  can  relieve  them  by  the  levies  intended  for  the  defense  of  the 
frontier,  not  yet  completed. 

On  the  4th  of  May  Col.  Cortlandt  writes  to  Gen.  Clinton  that 
just  as  he  was  marching  his  regiment  he  received  an  account 
of  the  burning  of  several  houses  at  the  Fantine  kill.  He 
marched  to  intercept  the  enemy,  whom  he  saw,  but  could  not 
surround,  as  they  were  on  a  mountain  when  discovered.  They 
had  burned  four  houses  and  killed  6  persons  and  perhaps  3  or 
j.  more.  They  had  not  killed  any  of  the  soldiers,  nor  had  the 
soldiers  been  able  to  kill  any  of  the  Indians,  though  they  ex- 
:hanged  shots  with  them  at  a  long  distance.  The  Indian  baftd 
kvas  thought  to  number  30  or  40.  As  he  (Cortlandt)  was  un- 
der the  most  pressing  orders  to  march  with  all  expedition  he 
Forwarded  this  letter  by  express.  He  said  in  closing  that  Col. 
Cantine  had  gone  to  Lackawack  and  that  he  thinks  not  over 
50  of  the  men  whom  Gen.  Clinton  had  ordered  had  as  yet  ar- 
rived, although  more  might  come  the  next  day. 

In  this  attack  the  Indians  murdered  Mrs.  Isaac  Bevier  and 
ler  sister  Mrs.  Michael  Sax  and  others,  some  8  in  all.  A  num- 
ber of  neighbors  fled  across  the  mountain  to  Shawangunk. 

The  next  day  Gen.  Clinton  writes  to  Cortlandt  that  he  had 
Drdered  out  one  fourth  of  Hardenbergh's  regiment  and  one 
"ourth  of  McCloughry's  regiment  to  join  Cantine  and  a  like 
Droportion  of  the  three  northern  regiments  of  Orange  county 
;o  such  posts  on  the  frontier  of  that  county  as  the  command- 
ng  officers  shall  deem  best ;  the  same  day  Clinton  writes  to 
Ilantine  that  he  has  ordered  one  fourth  of  Hardenbergh's  regi- 
nent  and  one  fourth  of  McCloughry's  regiment  to  march  im- 
nediately  and  put  themselves  under  his  command. 


i88  HISTORY  OF  XEJi'  PALTZ 

IXDIAX    X'lLLAGES    DESTROYED 

In  the  summer  of  this  year  (jen.  CUnton's  advice  that  it  was 
necessary  in  order  to  have  peace  on  the  frontier  that  the  Indian 
settlements  should  be  destroyed  was  fully  carried  out.  Gen. 
James  Clinton  with  five  Xew  York  state  regiments  united  with 
Gen.  Sullivan  and  routed  the  Indians  under  their  celebrated 
leader  Brant,  near  Elmira,  with  little  resistance :  then  burned 
their  villages  and  destroyed  all  food  supplies.  In  this  expedi- 
tion into  the  Indian  country  in  what  is  now  central  Xew  York 
Col.  Lewis  DuBois  bore  an  important  command. 

Still  Axother  Attack  ox  W'awarsixg 

In  1781  another  and  the  last  attack  was  made  on  the  \\'awar- 
sing  settlements,  a  large  force  of  Indians  being  fitted  out  at 
one  of  the  northern  forts  under  command  of  one  Coldwell. 
Five  or  six  houses  at  \\'awarsing  were  burned  by  the  savages. 
The  inhabitants  defended  themselves  with  great  bravery.  A 
force  of  about  400  men.  under  Col.  John  Cantine.  started  the 
next  day  in  pursuit,  but  gave  up  the  chase  without  capturing 
any  of  the  savages. 

A  full  account  of  the  Indian  forays  in  W'awarsing  was  pub- 
lished in  pamphlet  form  in  1846  by  a  member  of  the  Bevier 
family. 

Capt.  Arm.  Devo's  ;Mex 

Among  the  old  papers  preserved  in  the  Deyo  family  at  Xew 
Paltz.  is  a  pay  roll  dated  Sept.  19th.  1778.  and  signed  by  it, 
men.  acknowledging  that  they  had  "received  of  Capt.  Abra- 
ham Doiau  our  respective  wages  and  billeting  money  for  one 
month's  term  of  duty  at  the  Frontiers,  (parts  of  months  of 
July  and  August.  1778)." 


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Among  the  23  signatures  are  those  of  Isaac  DuBois,  whose 
lome  was  the  Old  Fort  on  Huguenot  street  and  Zachariah 
Hasbrouck,  who  Hved  in  the  old  stone  house,  across  the  street 
from  the  Reformed  church.  The  name  of  Abraham  Ean  of 
Bont^coe  also  appears  among  the  signers. 

These  men  were  certainly  with  Col.  Cantine.  They  were 
apparently  called  out  for  one  month  only  and  then  allowed  to 
return  to  their  homes.  From  one  of  Cantine's  letters  to  Clin- 
ton it  is  evident  that  the  different  companies  from  various  regi- 
nents  came  in  at  different  times. 


icK)  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 


CHAPTER  XX 

History  of  Farming  at  New  Paltz 

The  history  of  farming  in  Ulster  county  practically  begins 
at  about  the  time  of  the  settlement  of  New  Paltz  in  1678. 
Kingston  was  settled  about  a  score  of  years  earlier,  but  we 
have  reason  to  believe  that  trading  with  the  Indians  for  furs, 
was  until  about  this  time  one  main  occupation  of  the  people, 
though  wheat  was  grown  to  quite  an  extent. 

The  Indians  of  the  Atlantic  States  raised  corn,  beans  and 
pumpkins  and  the  savages  who  came  on  board  the  vessel  of 
Hendrick  Hudson  as  he  sailed  up  the  North  River  traded  with 
the  crew  for  corn  and  beans.  Do  any  of  my  readers  as  they 
make  or  eat  the  soup  of  sweet  corn  usually  called  "ogreeches" 
ever  consider  the  origin  of  the  word?  It  is  not  English  or 
Dutch  or  French.  But  undoubtedly  both  the  name  and  the  dish 
itself  were  from  the  Indians.  We  have  not  found  any  one 
outside  of  Ulster  county  who  knows  what  ogreeches  means. 

In  the  grant  of  the  patent  of  New  Paltz  by  Gov.  Edmund 
Andross  we  find  that  he  required  from  the  patentees  the  pay- 
ment of  an  annual  rental  of  "five  bushels  of  wheat,  payable  at 
the  Redoubt  at  Esopus  to  such  officers  as  shall  have  power  to 
receive  it."  Wheat,  then,  was  the  staple  product  of  the  early 
settlers.  One  of  the  first  sales  of  land  in  this  vicinity,  of  which 
we  have  any  record  was  in  1699,  when  Antoine  Crispell,  one 
of  the  Paltz  Patentees  sold  to  Louis  Bevier,  another  of  the 
Patentees,  his  share  (one  twelfth  part)  of  the  land  already 
divided  in  the  immediate  vicinity  of  this  village.  The  price 
paid  was   140  schepels  of  wheat.     Wheat  then  was  not  only 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  191 

the  staple  crop  but,  to  some  extent,  the  substitute  for  money  in 
commercial  transactions. 

In  another  sale  of  land  at  New  Paltz  in  1693  we  find  the 
payment  made  partly  in  wheat  and  partly  in  flax  seed. 

The  annual  rental  of  five  bushels  of  wheat  for  the  tract  of 
about  36,000  acres,  included  in  the  Paltz  Patent,  was,  we  are 
told,  always  paid  promptly  and  it  is  related  that  the  Freers  for 
paying  the  rent,  one  year,  without  help  from  the  other  mem- 
bers of  the  little  colony,  received  a  tract  of  land  at  Alud  Hook 
in  the  north-west  bounds  of  the  patent.  Even  this  small  mat- 
ter of  five  bushels  of  wheat  may  have  seemed  no  trifle  to  the 
handful  of  settlers  during  the  first  few  years,  when  but  a  small 
clearing-  had  been  opened  in  the  wilderness. 

The  progress  of  agriculture  and  the  growth  in  population 
were  very  slow  in  the  century  that  elapsed  from  the  first  settle- 
ment until  the  time  of  the  Revolution.  Here  and  there,  along 
the  streams,  the  sons  and  grandsons  of  the  early  settlers,  at 
Kingston  and  New  Paltz  located  and  opened  clearings. 

About  1720  Jacob  Freer,  Hendrick  Deyo  and  Isaac  LeFevre, 
son  of  Simon  LeFever  the  Patentee,  located  some  4  or  5  miles 
north  of  this  village  in  the  neighborhood  still  called  Bontecoe. 
Abraham  Freer,  son  of  Hugo,  located  there  previous  to  1705. 
The  land  in  that  locality  was  famous,  in  those  davs,  for  the 
production  of  wheat. 

The  land  at  the  first  settlement  was  of  course,  all  owned  in 
common.  There  were  divisions  of  land,  in  the  Patent,  at 
least  two  different  times. 

There  was  little  sale  of  land  in  those  old  colonial  davs  and 
the  price  was  almost  nominal.  When  Matthew  LeFever  moved 
from  this  village  and  located  at  Bloomingdale,  in  the  present 
town  of  Rosendale,  about  1740,  he  paid  $700  for  700  acres  of 
land.     The  farm  lately  owned  by  Abm.  V.  N.  Eltinge  along 


192  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

the  turnpike,  directly  east  of  this  village,  was  purchased  by  his 
great-grandfather,  Roelif  J.  Elting,  about  the  time  of  the  Revo- 
lution, for  $2.50  an  acre,  and  tradition  still  preserves  the  fact 
that  he  thought  he  was  compelled  to  pay  an  exhorbitant  price. 
In  the  early  part  of  the  present  century,  good  upland  in  the 
towns  of  Alarbletown  and  Rochester  has  been  sold  at  less  than 
10  cents  per  acre.  About  1830  good  lowland  in  this  county  was 
worth  $50  an  acre.  The  farm  of  Lewis  H.  Woolsey  consisting 
of  180  acres  Avas  purchased  by  his  father  about  1820  for  $4000 
— that  is  about  $22  an  acre.  In  the  old  days,  shortly  after  the 
Revolution,  there  was  little  buying  or  selling  of  land  or  any 
thing  else.  The  people  manufactured  their  own  clothing,  out 
of  flax  and  wool  of  their  own  raising,  made  shoes  (few  boots 
were  worn)  out  of  leather,  tanned,  to  a  great  extent,  by  them- 
selves, out  of  the  hides  of  their  own  cattle.  They  raised  their 
own  grain.  One  of  the  chief  employments  of  the  young  women 
was  spinning.  Agricultural  implements  were  few  in  number 
as  compared  watli  the  present  day. 

We  must  confess  that  as  a  general  rule,  the  old  people  were 
not,  apparently,  inclined  to  over  work  themselves.  Had  they 
been  bent  in  that  direction  the  cellars  of  the  old  houses  might 
have  been  dug  deeper  so  that  one  would  not  have  been  obliged 
to  stoop  so  much  in  entering  them.  To  clear  up  a  piece  of 
forest  to  obtain  a  new  field  for  planting,  was  quite  an  under- 
taking in  the  old  days  and  an  old  story  is  still  related  that  the 
owners  of  a  clearing  at  the  little  falls  in  the  Wallkill.  about 
half  a  mile  above  our  village,  would  bravely  resolve,  year 
after  year,  to  clear  up  another  patch  of  forest  fbr  planting  but 
that  finally  they  would  give  up  the  undertaking  and  again 
"plant  the  Voltje"  (as  the  old  field  was  called),  which  passed 
into  a  sort  of  proverb. 

With  the  early  settlers  game  and  fish  formed  a  considerable 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  193 

part  of  the  means  of  subsistence  and  the  remains  of  some  3^ 
a  dozen  ell-weirs  are  to  be  seen,  in  the  Wallkill,  between  this 
village  and  Libertyville. 

Slavery  as  it  existed  here  and  at  the  south  in  the  old  times 
doubtless  prevented  the  whites  from  exerting  themselves  as 
they  do  at  the  present  day.  In  1755  there  were  80  slaves, 
above  the  age  of  14,  owned  in  the  precinct  of  New  Paltz  and 
Solomon  DuBois  and  Abram  Hardenburgh,  who  were  the 
argest  slave  owners,  each  owned  7  slaves.  An  old  gentleman 
n  an  adjoining  town  tells  us  that  his  grand-father  owned  about 
20  slaves  and  that  they  did  not  do  any  more  work  than  a  few 
Dersons  would  do  at  the  present  day.  It  is  related,  that  when 
:he  slaves  became  free  in  1827  and  the  farmers'  sons  had  to 
lo  the  hard  work  themselves,  which  the  slaves  had  formerly 
lone  at  New  Paltz,  some  of  them  died,  as  was  thought  from 
overwork,  to  which  they  had  not  been  brought  up. 

Let  us  picture  a  farm  scene  at  New  Paltz  in  the  colonial 
lays,  just  before  the  Revolution.  The  farmer  with  his  sons, 
ind  one  or  two  of  his  daughters  has  been  in  the  field  husking 
;orn,  for  it  is  an  October  day  and  the  sun  is  setting,  as  the 
farmer  jogs  along  homeward  with  his  load  of  husked  corn, 
md  yoke  of  oxen,  which  his  negro  slave  is  driving.  On  the 
ivay  they  have  taken  good  notice  whether  the  colts  and  young 
rattle  were  to  be  seen,  for  in  those  days  the  stock  was  branded 
ind  ran  at  large  in  the  woods  and  particularly  good  care  must 
DC  taken  of  the  sheep  for  up  to  the  time  of  the  digging  of  the 
D.  &  H.  Canal,  in  1826,  the  wolves  would  come  on  their  long, 
stealthy  marches  from  the  wilds  of  Sullivan  and  work  havoc 
imong  the  flocks  in  the  valley  of  the  Wallkill.  But  our  farmer 
s  unloading  his  corn,  which  is  carried  up  the  stairs  to  the  loft 
)f  the  dwelling,  which  in  the  olden  times  served  as  a  granary, 
ind  night  settles  down  on  the  quiet  scene. 

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194  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

The  Poor  Soil  of  Kettleborough 

The  traditions  all  agree  that  when  the  first  settlers,  Abram 
and  Andries  LeFevre,  first  located  at  Kettleborough,  about 
1740,  the  gravelly  soil  of  that  locality  was  considered  very 
poor.  But  a  new  era  was  brought  about  in  Ulster  county  about 
the  time  of  Revolution,  when  the  ravages  of  the  Hessian  fly 
made  wheat  growing  unprofitable  and  corn  became  the  popular 
crop.  The  corn  from  the  valley  of  the  Wallkill  was  marketed 
at  Capt.  Swart's,  on  the  Strand,  now  called  Rondout. 

Clover  and   Plaster  the  First   Commercial   Fertilizers 

The  introduction  of  clover  and  plaster  formed  a  great  event 
in  the  history  of  farming  in  this  region.  This  must  have  been 
very  soon  after  the  Revolutionary  war,  and  they  were  first  in- 
troduced in  Kettleborough.  The  story  goes  that  the  sons  of 
Abm.  LeFever  one  of  the  two  pioneer  brothers  in  that  locality 
bought  the  plaster  at  the  Strand  (Rondout)  at  the  extraordi- 
nary price  of  $30  a  ton  and  the  clover  seed  at  Newburgh  at  the 
high  rate  of  $20  a  bushel.  But  the  investment  proved  a  good 
one.  The  result  was  marvelous.  People  came  a  distance  of 
over  20  miles  to  see  the  clover.  Andries  LeFever,  the  pioneer 
of  Kettleborough,  then  a  very  old  man,  had  not  approved  the 
large  expenditure  by  his  nephews  in  their  new  fangled  farm- 
ing', but  when  he  came  and  gazed  on  the  clover,  he  said  that 
"now  the  reproach  would  be  taken  away  from  Kettleborough" 
and  so  it  was.  From  that  day  to  this  Kettleborough  soil  has 
been  considered  as  good  as  any  in  the  county. 

Ancient  Names  of  Clearings  on  the  Wallkill 

At  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  war  very  little  of  the  upland 
in  this  town  was  cleared.     The  place  had  been  settled  over  a 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  195 

century  but  the  woodman's  ax  had  found  no  sufficient  incentive 
to  destroy  the  forests  except  upon  the  lowland,  along  the  Wall- 
kill.  One  of  the  peculiarities  of  the  old  people  was  to  give 
names  to  the  small  tracts  of  cleared  land.  These  names  were 
handed  down  from  father  to  son  and  have  only  died  out  in 
the  common  speech  of  the  people  during  the  present  genera- 
tion. A  very  few  can  still  tell  the  names  of  these  tracts.  The 
piece  of  lowland,  just  across  the  Wallkill  from  our  village,  on 
the  left  hand  side  from  the  present  highway  was  called  Pashe- 
moy.  This  we  believe  included  two  fields,  as  the  fences  were 
of  late.  The  piece  of  lowland  just  across  the  Wallkill  on  the 
right  was  called  Pashecanoe.  The  lot  on  the  left  of  the  high- 
way near  Perry  Deyo's  was  called  Tri  Cor.  The  tract  on  the 
other  side  of  Tri  Cor  was  called  A  venyear.  Where  the  road 
forks  to  go  to  Butterville  another  tract  of  three  or  four  fields 
was  called  Rumpause. 

Up  the  stream,  where  the  little  falls  still  is,  a  cleared  field 
on  the  east  side  was  called  the  Falls.  On  the  east  side  of  the 
Wallkill,  a  short  distance  above  the  mouth  of  the  Plattekill  an 
old  clearing  is  still  called  Yonkcrs  Hook.  On  the  west  side  of 
the  creek  the  place  where  Mr.  Blake  now  resides  was  called 
Ponghivaughononk.  A  little  farther  up,  the  next  clearing,  near 
where  Libertyville  now  is  was  called  Nescatock.  Still  farther 
up  the  Wallkill  the  next  settlement,  where  the  Hasbroucks 
located  at  an  early  date,  was  called  Guilford,  which  name  it  still 
bears.  Going  down  the  stream  again,  the  lot  where  the  Normal 
School  building  now  is,  was  called  by  the  old  people  Kill  Bogert, 
or  Creek  Orchard.  West  of  the  Church  in  this  village,  a  tract 
was  called  Ver  Maiicoslandt.  A  tract  of  about  30  acres  on  the 
west  side  of  the  Wallkill  near  what  is  now  the  Jonas  F.  Atkins 
place  was  called  by  the  old  people  Humpho,  a  name  still  ap- 
plied to  the  brook,  near  by.     Still  farther  down  the  stream  four 


196  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

different  tracts  of  good  land  in  the  bends  of  the  Wallkill  were 
called  Bontecoe,  Klina  Bontecoe,  Grote  Bontecoe  and  Bontecoe 
in  Haning.  Still  farther  down,  near  Mud  Hook,  a  tract  was 
called  Sponza  Zee,  or  Spanish  Sea.  Again  farther  down  the 
Wallkill,  about  one-fourth  of  a  mile  above  Perrine's  Bridge, 
a  tract  of  about  ten  acres  of  very  fertile  lowland  is  called  the 
Half  Moon  in  a  document  dated  1705.  This  tract  is  still  known 
as  the  Half  Moon.  It  was  owned  by  the  Ean  family  from 
about  1705  until  almost  the  present  time. 

Racing  Horses 

In  the  beginning  of  the  last  century  fine  horses  were  raised 
in  this  vicinity.  These  horses  were,  to  a  great  extent,  of 
Diomed,  Durock  and  Messenger  stock  and  were  noted  for  their 
endurance  as  well  as  speed.  An  old  gentleman,  lately  living 
in  this  village,  at  the  age  of  86,  tells  us  that  when  he  was  a 
young  man,  he,  with  three  others,  raced  their  horses,  all  the 
way  from  this  village  to  Perrine's  Bridge  and  back  by  the 
Springtown  road,  a  distance  of  over  12  miles.  The  Paltz 
Plains,  which  were  in  those  days,  unfenced  and  lying  in  com- 
mon were  the  favorite  racing  grounds  for  young  men,  and 
many  were  the  contests  of  speed,  especially  on  election  day. 

Depression  Among  the  Farmers 

The  war  of  18 12  was  followed  by  a  long  period  of  great  de- 
pression in  farming.  In  an  inventory  taken  about  1830  we 
find  the  highest  price  for  a  horse  $80,  the  next  highest  $50, 
and  a  two  year  old  colt  $30.  A  yoke  of  oxen  was  valued  at 
$40.  The  best  cows  at  $15.  other  cows  from  $10  to  $14.  28 
sheep  and  lambs  were  inventoried  at  $35.  Such  were  the 
prices  in  those  days. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  1^7 

The  Implements  Used  by  Our  Forefathers 

The  tools  used  by  the  farmers  in  the  old  times  were  black- 
smith made,  or  made  by  the  farmers  themselves.  The  plows 
used  by  the  old  people  had  wooden  mouldboards  with  steel 
shares.  The  harrows  had  wooden  teeth.  The  introduction 
of  the  iron  mouldboard  plow  marked  quite  an  era  in  the  his- 
tory of  farming,  in  Ulster  county.  But  at  first,  this  innovation 
was  looked  on  with  suspicion  and  the  story  is  told  that  the 
farmers  feared  that  the  iron  mouldboard  plows  would  hurt 
their  land.  A  Alarbletown  man  tells  a  good  story  of  the 
purchase  of  an  iron  mouldboard  plow  by  a  farmer  and  the 
interest  with  which  its  work  was  watched  by  a  neighbor 
as  it  smoothly  turned  over  the  furrow  of  Marbletown  low- 
land. The  neighbor  gazed  and  scratched  his  head,  then 
exclaimed  "]2kty,  Jakey,  do  you  think  it  will  be  good." 
Then  continued,  "Jakey,  Jakey,  don't  you  think  it  will  hurt 
the  wheat."  Such  was  the  distrust  with  which  the  iron  mould- 
board  plow  was  greeted,  and  coming  down  to  our  own  time,  we 
may  note  that  the  introduction  of  the  mowing  machine,  about 
1855,  was  Ukewise  viewed  with  apprehension,  on  the  ground 
that  it  would  injure  the  roots  of  the  grass. 

The  New  Paltz  Turnpike 

The  New  Paltz  Turnpike  was  constructed,  about  1830,  and 
proved  a  great  blessing  to  the  farmers  of  the  Wallkill  Valley. 
Capt.  Abram  Eltilig  was,  at  that  time,  and  had  been  for  some 
years  previous,  running  a  sloop  from  New  Paltz  Landing  to 
New  York.  With  the  greatly  improved  facilities  for  getting 
produce  to  the  landing  as  soon  as  the  turnpike  was  built,  the 
farmers,  in  all  this  region,  became  more  prosperous.  In  those 
days  flax  seed  was  one  of  the  chief  articles,  sent  to  New  York 


198  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

by  the  farmers  in  this  section.  But  the  culture  of  flax  was 
gradually  abandoned.  Dairying  came  to  the  front  and  the 
shipment  of  butter,  calves,  poultry  and  pork  to  New  York  be- 
came the  leading  industries  with  the  farmers. 

The  building  of  the  D.  &  H.  Canal  in  1826  made  a  fine 
market  for  oats.  The  culture  of  wheat  had  been  abandoned 
long  before;  rye  had  taken  its  place,  and  rye  bread  was  used 
altogether  in  farmers'  families.  It  is  within  the  memory  of 
men  now  living  when  the  first  barrel  of  wheat  flour  was  sold 
by  a  village  merchant  in  this  place. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  199 


CHAPTER  XXI 

New  Paltz  Village  and  Town  in  1820 

There  were  in  the  village  in  1820  twenty  dwellings,  two 
stores,  two  hotels,  two  cake  and  beer  shops,  one  blacksmith 
shop,  one  schoolhouse  and  one  church. 

Commencing  on  the  northern  limits  of  the  village  the  house 
now  owned  and  occupied  by  Abm.  M.  Hasbrouck,  was  owned 
by  his  grandfather  Jacob  J.  Hasbrouck,  who  at  about  this  time 
gave  up  this  house  and  farm  to  his  son  Maurice  and  moved 
to  Bontecoe,  where  he  built  a  brick  house  and  spent  the  re- 
mainder of  his  days  on  the  farm  now  owned  by  his  grandson 
Luther  Hasbrouck.  Coming  on  toward  the  village  the  stone 
house  of  Philip  D.  Elting  was  occupied  by  Roelif  Elting,  father 
of  Ezekiel  and  Brodhead  Elting,  who  lived  and  died  at  Port 
Ewen,  and  Daniel  Elting,  late  of  Ellenville.  The  parsonage 
was  occupied  by  Dominie  Bogardus.  Where  now  is  Hugue- 
not Hall  stood  a  house,  part  stone  and  part  frame,  occupied 
by  Jeremy  Low.  Just  north  of  the  churchyard,  as  it  is  at 
present,  was  the  blacksmith  shop  of  Mr.  Kilby,  father  of  Jas. 
and  Eb.  Kilby.  In  the  northernmost  of  the  old  stone  houses 
on  Huguenot  street  Mr.  Selleck  had  a  harness  shop  at  about 
this  time.  Directly  across  the  street  in  the  north  part  of  the 
present  church  yard  stood  an  old  stone  house,  owned  and  occu- 
pied by  Andries  DuBois.  This  was  the  original  LeFevre  house 
and  was  torn  down  when  the  brick  church  was  built.  The  old 
stone  church  then  occupied  the  site  of  the  present  brick  church, 
which  was  built  in   1839.       The  stone  house  of  Isaiah  Has- 


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brouck  directly  across  the  street  from  the  church  was  owned 
and  occupied  by  his  grandmother  "Mowche"  Hasbrouck,  who 
was  a  widoWi  The  house  next  the  churchyard  on  the  south 
was  occupied  by  Mrs.  Lucas  Van  Wagenen,  a  widow,  mother 
of  Benj.  Van  Wagenen  and  great  grandmother  of  Easton  Van 
Wagenen.  She  sold  cake  and  temperance  drink.  The  Mary 
DuBois  Berry  place  was  owned  and  occupied  by  her  father 
Daniel  DuBois.  The  old  stone  house  directly  across  the  street 
was  owned  by  Ezekiel  Kiting,  and  occupied  by  his  son  Jacob 
Elting,  who  afterwards  moved  to  Clintondale.  The  house  of 
Abm.  D.  Brodhead  was  owned  by  his  great-grandfather  Judge 
Abram  A.  Deyo,  and  occupied  by  Richard  Hardenbergh,  who 
leased  the  farm.  His  son  Jacob,  afterwards  one  of  the  most 
distinguished  men  in  the  state,  was  born  in  this  house  at  about 
this  time. 

A  few  yards  farther  south,  on  the  corner  of  the  street,  a 
shoemaker's  shop  and  a  harnessmaker's  shop  were  located. 
There  has  been  no  building  there  for  many  years. 

Across  the  street  the  building  of  Mrs.  S.  A.  LeFevre,  still 
sometimes  called  the  "white  store,"  was  occupied  for  mercantile 
purposes  by  Cornelius  Bruyn  who  afterwards  went  to  Kingston 
and  was  for  a  long  time  the  head  of  the  Ulster  County  Bank. 
His  brother  DuBois  Bruyn  was  with  him  in  the  store  a  portion 
of  the  time.  Josiah  DuBois.  grandfather  of  William  E.  DuBois, 
lived  directly  across  the  street,  in  what  is  now  the  Memorial 
House.  In  this  building  he  had  formerly  kept  a  store  with 
his  father-in-law.  Col.  Josiah  Hasbrouck.  Col.  Hasbrouck  had 
removed  to  the  Plattekill.  Mr.  DuBois  had  given  up  the  mer- 
cantile business  and  was  occupying  the  building  simply  as  a 
dwelling.  Shortly  afterwards  Mr.  DuBois  removed  to  Pough- 
woughtenonk  and  built  the  brick  house,  now  occupied  by  Capt. 
W.  H.  D.  Blake,  where  he  resided  until  his  death.     Passing  by 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  201 

the  old  graveyard  the  stone  house  with  a  brick  front  now  owned 
by  Jesse  M.  Elting,  was  occupied  as  a  residence  by  Ezekiel 
Elting,  grandfather  of  Jesse  Kiting.  The  north  room  was 
used  as  a  store.     This  building  was  erected  in  1800. 

Ezekiel  Elting  was  probably  the  most  extensive  man  of  busi- 
ness in  this  place  in  1820.  He  carried  on  the  mercantile  busi- 
ness in  this  building  in  partnership  with  his  brother-in-law, 
Philip  Elting,  and  in  partnership  with  another  brother-in-law, 
Peter  LeFevre  of  Bontecoe  he  built  the  grist  mill  at  Dashville 
in  which  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Dinah  Brodhead,  carried  on  busi- 
ness for  a  long,  long  time  afterwards.  Geo.  D.  Freer  of  Liberty- 
ville  has  told  us  that,  about  1825,  when  he  was  a  small  boy 
and  lived  with  his  father  near  Perrine's  Bridge,  he  would  drive 
the  cows  to  pasture  on  a  lot  which  his  father  owned  a  short  dis- 
tance north  of  the  Simon  LeFevre  farm.  Sometimes  he  would 
see  Ezekiel  Elting,  then  an  old  man,  going  with  his  team  of 
gray  horses  from  his  residence  at  New  Paltz  to  the  mill  at 
Dashville.  He  would  take  grain  sometimes  for  the  farmers 
to  accommodate  them  and  occasionally  would  deliver  the  flour, 
when  on  his  return. 

Across  the  street,  lived  a  Mr.  Jackson  who  employed  two  or 
three  men  in  the  business  of  making  hats  in  a  shop  a  little 
nearer  the  Wallkill.  The  Academy  was  not  built  until  about 
13  years  afterwards.  Just  below  the  Academy  grounds  were 
the  remains  of  the  old  bridge  across  the  Wallkill,  but  at  that 
time  a  scow  was  the  only  means  of  transportation  across  the 
stream.  Not  long  afterwards  the  bridge  was  erected  at  its 
present  location.  Passing  on  to  the  locust  grove,  near  the  pres- 
ent bridge.  Dr.  Jacob  Wurts  lived  in  the  house  torn  down  about 
1875.  The  next  house  farther  south  was  that  in  which  the 
Wurts  family  lately  lived,  which  was  occupied  by  tenants. 

Going  on  still  south  there  was  no  house  until  the  Plains  were 


202  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

reached.  There  Nathaniel  LeFevre  Hved  in  the  stone  house 
torn  down  about  1885  by  A.  \.  N.  Elting.  The  Plains  were 
all  unfenced,  lying  in  commons. 

Coming  back  to  the  village  Main  street  was  not  yet  laid  out. 
People  crossing  the  Wallkill  came  around  by  the  "white  store" 
and  up  North  P'ront  street.  The  hotel  property,  corner  of 
North  Front  and  Chestnut  streets,  was  occupied  then  and  for  a 
long  time  before  and  afterwards  as  a  hotel  by  Samuel  Budd, 
who  likewise  carried  on  the  wagon  making  business.  About 
1858  this  old  building  was  replaced  by  the  present  structure. 
Chestnut  street  was  not  laid  out  until  many  years  afterwards, 
when  Solomon  Elting,  father  of  A.  V.  N.  Elting,  bought  the 
"scaup  way,"  sheep  pasture,  and  laid  out  the  present  street, 
and  also  the  street  that  divides  the  property  of  J.  J.  Hasbrouck 
and  Abner  DuBois, 

The  old  stone  building  now  occupied  by  John  Drake  as  a 
residence,  was  a  school  building  then,  as  it  continued  to  be  until 
a  recent  date.  The  school  at  that  time  was  taught  by  Tyloses 
Dewitt,  father  of  D.  ]\I.  Dewitt  of  Kingston.  About  the  same 
time  Burr  Dewitt,  a  brother  of  Moses,  also  presided  as  a  peda- 
gogue and  taught  the  young  idea  how  to  shoot.  Adjoining  the 
school  house  on  the  east,  "Cookey  John"  Freer  lived  in  the  house 
torn  down  about  1880.  "Cookey  John"  sold  cakes,  cider,  etc. 
On  the  other  side  of  the  street  was  a  frame  tenant  house. 

Passing  up  the  street  where  Mrs.  Oscar  C.  Hasbrouck  now 
lives,  Jacob  Terwilliger,  an  uncle  of  Nelson,  resided.  He 
afterwards  moved  to  Ohio.  There  was  no  other  building  in 
this  part  of  the  village  except  what  is  now  the  Steen  hotel 
property.  Here  a  hotel  was  kept  by  Angevine  Fatten.  Mr. 
Fatten  or  his  wife  owned  the  land  in  the  vicinity  of  the  Hugue- 
not Bank.  Where  Elias  Coe's  tenant  house  noV  stands  in  the 
rear  of  the  trolley  depot  were  several  tall  hickory  trees. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  203 

Springtown  in  1820 

In  1820  Springtown  was  about  as  much  of  a  village  as  New 
Paltz,  each  numbering  about  20  houses.  In  those  days  the 
nain  thoroughfare  from  north  to  south  ran  through  Spring- 
;own  and  this  gave  it  great  advantage  over  New  Paltz.  The 
)tage  line,  which  before  the  day  of  railroads,  was  a  very  impor- 
ant  interest,  ran  on  the  west  side  of  the  Wallkill  and  stopped 
it  Springtown.  Here  lived  Judge  Jonathan  DuBois,  who  was 
:ounty  judge  in  1821  and  probably  the  most  prominent  man  in 
:he  town  at  the  time.  At  Springtown  there  was  a  scow  and 
lirectly  across  the  Wallkill,  perhaps  100  yards  from  the  rail- 
"oad  bridge,  was  a  tannery  carried  on  by  Wm.  McDonald. 
Prom  this  a  road  ran  eastward  and  intersected  the  Middletown 
■oad    near    the    Ean    residence.      About    1820    Ulster    county 

lad    an    agricultural     society,     of    which   DeWitt,     of 

R.ochester,  was  President,  and  at  least  one  fair  was  held  at 
Springtown. 

In  those  days  many  droves  of  cattle  and  sheep  and  some 
lorses  would  come  from  the  north  and  the  region  about  Lake 
^hamplain  and  would  pass  through  Springtown  on  their  way 
:o  the  New  York  or  Philadelphia  market.  There  was  no  ferry 
it  Kingston  or  Poughkeepsie  large  enough  to  take  droves  of 
lattle  across  the  river.  The  Poughkeepsie  ferryboat  was  so 
small  that  a  farmer  going  to  that  place  had  to  unhitch  his 
lorses  from  the  wagon.  When  the  wind  was  not  favorable 
;he  ferryman  had  to  depend  on  his  oars  for  motive  power.  This 
was  before  the  days  of  the  horse  boat. 

But  to  return  to  Springtown.  Of  course  the  numerous 
droves  of  stock  made  considerable  business  for  the  people  along 
the  line,  in  feeding  man  and  beast.  Accordingly  we  find  no 
less  than  six  houses  of  entertainment  or  taverns,  between  New 


204  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Paltz  and  Rosendale,  by  the  Springtown  road,  as  follows : 
Frederick  Stokes  at  what  is  now  the  Beaver  place,  Roelif  Has- 
brouck,  Ezekiel  Low  and  Abm.  Traphagan,  in  Springtown; 
Abm.  DuBois  in  the  old  stone  house  about  two  miles  north  of 
Springtown  and  Wm.  Delamater  at  this  end  of  the  Rosendale 
Plains.     From  this  to  Rosendale  there  were  no  houses. 

Houses  North  of  Our  Village  in  1820 

Going  north  from  the  present  corporate  bounds  of  our  vil- 
lage the  first  place  was  that  of  Philip  Kiting,  who  owned  the 
place  now  the  residence  of  his  grandson  Sol.  L.  F.  Kiting. 
Philip  Kiting  was  a  man  of  extensive  means  and  beside  farm- 
ing carried  on  the  mercantile  business  in  this  village  in  partner- 
ship with  Kzekiel  Kiting,  who  was  his  double  brother-in-law, 
each  having  married  the  other's  sister.  The  next  place  on  the 
present  highway  was  that  of  Klias  Freer,  who  left  a  numerous 
family  of  children,  the  last  survivor  of  whom  in  this  vicinity 
was  Peter  W.  A.  Freer.  Klias'  father  Jonas  lived  on  the 
eastern  end  of  the  same  tract  at  Shivertown,  in  a  stone  house, 
occupied  in  our  day  by  his  grandson  Stephen  Freer.  Next  to 
the  Klias  Freer  place  came  the  farm  of  Joseph  DuBois,  after- 
ward the  Moses  P.  LeFevre  farm.  Next  on  the  north  came 
the  brick  house  now  owned  by  the  Terpenings.  This  is  by 
far  the  oldest  brick  house  in  the  town.  It  was  built  in  1786 
by  Josiah  Kiting,  brother  of  Philip,  and  in  1820  was  occupied 
by  Abm.  J.  Kiting,  son  of  Josiah.  Near  the  house  stood  a 
saw  mill,  which  was  taken  down  about  1870.  Going  on  to  the 
north  we  come  next  to  the  Kan  place,  still  owned  in  the  family. 
The  old  stone  house,  still  occupied  as  a  residence,  has  on  its 
corner  stone  the  initials  K.  K.  (Klias  Kan)  and  R.  H.  B.  (Roelif 
Hasbrouck)  also  the  date  of  building.  1789.     Krom  Klias  Kan, 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  205 

senior,  the  farm  descended  to  his  son  EUas  and  then  to  James 
Ean.  A  curious  feature  of  this  place  was  the  large  stone  oven, 
5  or  8  feet  square,  which  stood  on  a  rock,  directly  across  the 
street  from  the  house,  and  which  was  taken  down  some  years 
ago.  When  the  bread  was  ready  for  baking  it  had  to  be  taken 
across  the  street  to  this  oven. 

From  the  Ean  place  a  road  ran  westward  to  the  McDonald 
tannery  and  the  scow  ferry  at  Springtown.  Nearly  half  way 
on  this  road  was  the  old  stone  house  of  Solomon  Hasbrouck, 
son  of  Abraham  the  Patentee.  From  Solomon  the  place 
passed  to  his  son  John,  then  to  John's  son  John  and  finally 
became  the  property  of  the  Eltings,  who  owned  the  farm  ad- 
joining. Charles  Elting,  brother  of  Abram  J.,  occupied  this 
Did  stone  house  in  1820,  but  afterwards  built  a  frame  house 
where  his  grandson  Watson  has  lived  of  late.  The  old  stone 
house  tumbled  into  ruins  about  i860.  Near  by  is  an  old  barn 
and  a  large  graveyard  in  which  a  large  number  of  the  Middle- 
town  people  of  those  days  were  buried.  A  little  farther  north 
stands  a  stone  house  with  slate  roof,  built  not  long  before  the 
Revolution  for  Petrus  Hasbrouck  and  afterwards  occupied  by 
his  son  Samuel.  This  was  in  1820  the  home  of  Wm.  W.  Deyo, 
whom  the  writer  best  remembers  as  superintendent  of  the  Mid- 
dletown  Sunday  school,  thirty  years  later.  Returning  to  the 
present  highway,  'Squire  Philip  Hasbrouck  had  a  blacksmith 
shop  about  1820,  which  continued  in  use  until  about  1855. 
The  old  Middletown  school  house,  replaced  by  the  present 
structure  about  1855,  was  a  small,  unpainted  frame  building, 
a  little  north  of  the  present  location.  The  house  just  south 
of  the  school  house  was  owned  a  short  time  previous  to  1820 
by  Elias  Bevier,  whose  wife  was  the  daughter  of  Petrus  Le- 
Fevre  of  Bontecoe.     They  moved  west. 

Northeast  of  the  Middletown  school  house,  on  the  farm  of 


2o6  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

his  father-in-law  John  Waldron,  lived  Lawrence  Hood,  the 
ancestor  of  the  Hood  family.  He  died  before  his  father-in- 
law,  leaving-  two  sons,  John  and  Isaac.  The  farm  passed  from 
John  Hood  to  his  son  Jesse,  whose  son  lately  owned  it.  Isaac 
owned  the  farm  a  short  distance  north. 

BoNTECOE  IN   1820 

Bontecoe  has  not  changed  so  much  since  1820  as  some  other 
parts  of  the  town.  At  that  time  there  were  a  number  of  Freers 
located  on  the  northern  bounds  of  the  Paltz  patent  on  both 
sides  of  the  Wallkill.  A  little  farther  south  were  several  mem- 
bers of  the  Deyo  family,  descendants  of  Hendricus  Deyo.  The 
southernmost  of  these  farms  was  that  of  William  Deyo.  Next 
came  the  LeFevre  tract.  Grandfather  Peter  LeFevre  occu- 
pied the  old  stone  house  still  standing,  which  had  come  to 
him  from  his  father  Daniel.  Besides  carrying  on  the  farming 
business,  grandfather  was  a  justice  of  the  peace  and  was 
usually  called  'Squire.  The  office  was  of  considerably  more 
importance  than  at  the  present  day.  Besides  trying  many  im- 
portant cases  he  performed  duties  now  restricted  to  lawyers, 
such  as  the  drawing  up  of  wills.  There  was  no  lawyer  in 
New  Paltz  until  about  1870. 

The  next  old  stone  house,  also  still  standing,  was  that  of 
grandfather's  cousin.  Major  Isaac  LeFevre,  who  built  the  house 
and  resided  in  it  for  some  time,  but  removed  to  Esopus  at 
about  this  date.  He  was  a  noted  surveyor  and  about  all  the 
work  in  that  line  in  this  part  of  the  country  was  done  by  him. 
Next  to  the  LeFevre  tract  came  the  Fan  farm,  then  owned  by 
Peter  Ean.  Crossing  Bontecoe  kill,  there  was  a  school  house 
on  top  of  the  hill  at  about  this  date. 


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2o8  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Libert YV'iLLE  in   1820 

In  1820  and  until  a  much  later  date  Liberty ville  was  known 
by  its  old  Indian  name,  Nescatock.  Here  Chas.  DuBois  long 
carried  on  the  milling  business  and  was  a  prominent  man.  Ai 
that  time  there  were  about  as  many  people  in  the  Libertyville 
neighborhood  as  at  present  and  nearly  all  were  DuBoises — 
descendants  of  the  two  brothers,  Solomon  and  Louis,  Jr.,  the 
original  settlers  there. 

The  mill  at  Libertyville  was  probably  the  first  running  by 
water  power,  in  this  portion  of  Ulster  county,  except  the  one 
in  the  Mill  brook  north  of  our  village.  Still  there  was  not 
much  difference  in  the  date  of  the  erection  of  the  Libertyville 
mill  and  the  one  at  Tuthill.  The  Libertyville  mill  was  built 
before  1790,  by  Nathaniel  DuBois,  who  was  a  bachelor,  and 
from  him  it  passed  to  his  nephew  Charles.  The  mill-house 
was  rebuilt  in  1804.  At  first  there  was  no  dam  across  the 
stream,  but  after  the  draining  of  the  Drowned  Lands,  in 
Orange  county  the  water  in  the  stream  got  so  low,  in  summer, 
that  a  dam  had  to  be  built.  Nearly  all  the  Paltz  farmers 
brought  their  grain  to  the  Libertyville  mill  and  would  some- 
times wait  for  it  to  be  ground,  sitting,  in  cold  weather,  by  the 
blazing  fire  in  the  cellar  kitchen,  eating  apples  and  drinking 
cider. 

Ohioville  in   1820 

The  New  Paltz  turnpike  was  not  constructed  until  about  a 
dozen  years  after  this  time.  Going  east  from  our  village  in 
1820,  the  first  house  was  that  of  Dr.  Bogardus,  where  Jona- 
than Deyo  now  lives.  Directly  across  the  street  lived  John 
Terwillegar.  Simon  Rose,  grandfather  of  Daniel  Rose  of  this 
village,    occupied    the    stone   house    now    the    home    of   Jacob 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  209 

Champlin.  A  little  further  on  the  farm  house,  in  which 
Levi  Wright  long-  resided,  was  occupied' by  Jacob  Halstead 
and  an  old  man  named  Van  Aken,  who  wore  knee  breeches. 
Where  Milton  B.  Hasbrouck  now  resides  was  a  house  and 
blacksmith  shop  where  John  DeGroodt  carried  on  business. 
Just  this  side  of  Ohioville  a  hotel  was  kept  by  Henry  Cronk. 
Ohioville  in  those  old  days  was  called  H — 1  town,  a  name 
which  stuck  to  the  place  until  Moses  Freer  came  back  from 
Ohio  and  called  it  Ohioville. 

Houses  South  of  Our  Village  in  1820 

Passing  on  to  the  south  from  the  present  corporate  limits 
of  our  village  we  have  noted  the  old  LeFevre  house,  built  by 
Jean,  son  of  Simon  the  Patentee,  torn  down  about  1880.  The 
next  house  in  1820  was  that  of  Andries  Deyo,  now  the  Sprague 
place.  This  house  was  built  in  Revolutionary  times  by  Andries 
Deyo's  father,  Philip.  Andries  had  a  large  family  of  sons 
and  daughters,  of  whom  Solomon  Deyo  of  this  village  is  the 
only  survivor. 

Next  to  the  Andries  Deyo  farm  came  the  Edmund  Eltinge 
farm  of  our  day,  which  was  owned  in  1820  by  Edmund's 
father,  Peter  Eltinge,  who  in  1826  built  the  present  fine  brick 
residence  to  take  the  place  of  the  old  stone  house,  which  had 
burned  down.  The  place  came  to  Peter  Eltinge  from  his 
father-in-law,  Gen.  Derick  Wynkoop,  who  died  about  1820. 

Going  on  to  the  south  there  comes  next  the  Cornelius  Du- 
Bois,  senior,  tract  of  land,  which  requires  some  explanation. 
Cornelius  DuBois,  senior,  of  Poughwoughtenonk,  son  of  Solo- 
mon, had  left  a  landed  estate  of  about  3,000  acres,  lying  on 
both  sides  of  the  Wallkill,  and  he  had  left  a  most  singular  will 
providing  that  his  son,  CorneHus,  junior,  should  have  the  entire 

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210  HISTORY  OF  XEIV  J'ALTZ 

real  estate  during  his  life  time,  but  that  after  his  death  his 
other  children  or  their  heirs  should  have  their  proper  share. 
Cornelius'  estate  included  on  the  east  of  the  Wallkill  the  tract 
now  comprising  the  farms  of  Lewis  H.  Woolsey,  Wm.  F.  Du- 
Bois,  Solomon  DuBois  and  C.  L.  Van  Orden.  Cornelius, 
senior,  had  a  large  family  of  daughters.  When,  after  tht 
death  of  Cornelius,  junior,  the  division  of  the  property  was 
made,  what  is  now  the  Woolsey  farm  fell  to  the  share  of  the 
daughter  Sarah,  who  had  married  Jacob  Hasbrouck  of  Mar- 
bletown.  The  Hasbroucks  sold  the  place  to  a  man  named 
Peltz,  who  sold  it  to  Elijah  Woolsey,  about  1825,  at  the  rate 
of  about  $22  an  acre. 

The  farm  now  owned  by  Wm.  F.  DuBois  was  also  a  part 
of  the  Cornelius  DuBois  estate  and  passed  in  the  division  to 
the  share  of  a  daughter  Catharine  (in  Dutch  Tryntje),  who 
had  married  Col.  Jonathan  Hasbrouck  of  Newburgh.  It 
passed  from  her  to  her  daughter  Rachel,  who  married  her 
cousin  Daniel,  son  of  Col.  Abraham  Hasbrouck  of  Kingston, 
and  located  at  Wallkill,  Orange  county.  Jonas  DuBois,  grand- 
father of  the  present  owner,  bought  of  Daniel  Hasbrouck  and 
wife  of  Orange  county,  in  1830,  102  acres,  constituting  most  of 
the  present  farm.  The  place  was  all  in  woods  with  no  build- 
ings and  the  price  paid  was  $2,000  for  102  acres. 

What  is  now  the  Solomon  DuBois  farm,  160  acres,  in  the 
division  of  the  Cornelius  DuBois  estate  fell  to  the  share  of  the 
daughter  Jemima,  who  had  married  Andries  Bevier  of  Wa- 
warsing.  Jacob  G.  DuBois  purchased  it  of  the  Beviers  about 
1829,  paying  about  $20  an  acre.  There  was  a  house  on  the 
place  occupied  by  Joachim  Schoonmaker. 

The  next  fami,  now  owned  by  C.  L.  Van  Orden,  has  had  a 
singular  history  from  the  fact  that  it  has  passed  in  each  gen- 
eration for  a  century  from  one  family  to  another  in  the  female 


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line  and  three  of  its  owners  were  named  Leah.  In  the  division 
of  the  property  of  CorneUus  DuBois,  senior,  this  tract  fell  to 
the  share  of  his  daughter  Leah,  who  had  married  Cornelius 
Wynkoop  of  Hurley.  It  passed  to  their  daughter  Leah,  who 
married  Dr.  Dewitt  of  Rochester.  Dr.  Dewitt's  daughter  Jane 
married  Henry  Hornbeck,  also  of  Rochester,  and  they  came  to 
live  on  the  place.  In  the  next  generation  it  became  the  prop- 
erty of  their  daughter  Leah,  who  married  Alfred  Deyo.  About 
1830  Henry  Hornbeck  built  the  house,  which  at  the  time  was 
considered  the  finest  residence  between  Goshen  and  New  Paltz. 

We  have  come  now  on  the  Kettelboro  road  to  the  LeFevre 
tract  of  1,000  acres,  originally  a  part  of  the  Garland  patent. 
The  old  stone  house  now  owned  and  occupied  by  Nathaniel 
Deyo,  was  the  residence  in  1820  of  Noah  LeFevre,  grand- 
father of  Josiah  LeFevre  of  this  village.  It  came  to  Noah 
from  his  father  Abraham,  and  it  passed  from  Noah  to  his  son 
Jonas. 

What  is  now  the  Jansen  Hasbrouck  place  was  in  1820  occu- 
pied bv  John  LeFevre,  son  of  the  pioneer  Abraham.  It  passed 
from  John  to  his  son  Matthew  and  then  to  Matthew's  son  John 
M.,  who  is  now  living  at  Peekskill  with  his  son  Matthew  J. 

The  next  farm,  now  owned  by  J.  Kiting  LeFevre  of  High- 
land, was  owmed  in  1820  by  his  great-grandfather,  'Squire 
Johannes  LeFevre,  who  built  the  present  large  frame  house 
about  1816,  intending  it  for  his  son,  Andries  J.  The  latter 
died  in  181 7  and  'Squire  Johannes  moved  into  the  house  him- 
self, where  he  lived  until  his  death,  about  1840.  The  farm 
afterwards  became  the  property  of  Andries  J.'s  son,  Cornelius 
D.,  from  whom  it  passed  to  the  present  owner. 

The  next  farm  was  owned  in  1820  by  Jacobus  LeFevre,  a 
nephew  of  'Squire  Johannes.  Jacobus  built,  about  181 5,  the 
frame  house  still  standing.     After  Jacobus'  death  the  farm  was 


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sold  to  divide  his  estate  and  became  the  property  of  Garret 
LeFevre  and  subsequently  of  John  H.  Wurts. 

Next  comes  the  farm,  now  owned  by  Albert  Decker,  which 
was  owned  in  1820  by  Lewis  LeFevre,  a  brother  of  Jacobus 
above  mentioned.  The  house  burned  down  about  1838  and 
was  replaced  by  the  present  residence. 

We  have  come  now  to  the  Deyo  tract  of  500  acres,  which 
like  the  LeFevre  tract  was  a  portion  of  the  Jas.  Garland  patent. 
The  Daniel  Bevier  farm  of  our  day  was  owned  in  1820  by 
Daniel  A,  Deyo,  father  of  Thomas  J.  Deyo  of  Wallkill. 

Next  comes  the  old  stone  house  of  Daniel  Deyo,  who  was 
the  ancestor  of  the  Deyo  family  in  this  neighborhood.  This 
house  was  occupied  in  1820  by  Jonathan,  father  of  Dr.  Abm. 
Deyo. 

We  have  now  come  to  Ireland  Corners  and  to  the  southern 
boundary  of  the  town  of  New  Paltz  as  it  was  before  the  town 
of  Gardiner  was  created. 

BUTTERVILLE    IN    1 820 

The  neighborhood,  now  known  as  Butterville,  about  two 
miles  west  of  this  village,  was  not  settled  until  about  1812. 
The  old  Dutch  name  of  the  locality  was  "Oleynuit"  (Butter- 
nut), and  was  doubtless  bestowed  on  account  of  the  number 
of  butternut  trees  in  that  region.  Afterwards,  on  account  of 
the  number  of  members  of  the  Society  of  Friends  who  settled 
in  that  region,  it  was  called  "The  Quaker  Neighborhood." 
The  name,  Butterville  was  given  to  the  locality  by  S.  D.  B. 
Stokes  in  selecting  a  name  for  the  Sunday  school  which  he 
and  others  had  organized  in  that  locality. 

One  of  the  first  settlers  in  this  region  was  Abram  Steen, 
the  father  of  our  informant,  Peter  Steen.  He  was  the  son  of 
Michael  Steen,  who  emigrated  from  Holland  and  settled  near 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  213 

the  Swartekill,  in  Esopus.  Michael's  sons  were  Jacob,  Abram, 
Matthew  and  Thomas.  Abram  was  the  only  one  of  these  who 
located  permanently  in  this  vicinity.  He  married  a  Freer  from 
Bontecoe  and  purchased  the  land  on  which  he  located  at  But- 
terville  of  Major  Isaac  LeFevre.  At  that  time  the  country 
all  the  way  over  the  mountains  to  the  Philip  Ayres  place,  near 
the  Clove,  was  in  woods. 

At  about  the  same  time  that  Abm.  Steen  built  his  house  a 
number  of  the  Society  of  Friends  located  in  the  neighborhood. 
Mr.  Peter  Steen' s  recollections  of  these  neighbors,  as  they  were 
about  1820,  were  as  follows : 

Rowland  DeGarmo,  father  of  Wm.  H.  DeGarmo,  late  of 
Rondout,  came  from  Dutchess  county  and  located  where  Henry 
Vanderlyn  afterwards  lived.  Here  he  long  carried  on  the  tan- 
ning business  on  quite  an  extensive  scale.  Merritt  Moore,  who 
afterwards  moved  to  Poughkeepsie,  lived  on  what  was  after- 
wards the  S.  D.  B.  Stokes  place.  Next  came  the  houses  of 
Isaac  and  David  Sutton,  who  were  brothers  and  also  came 
from  Dutchess  county.  Matthew  DuBois  lately  lived  on  the 
place  of  Isaac  and  Mr.  Holmes  on  the  place  of  David  Sutton. 
Isaac  was  the  father  of  Isaac  S.  and  Henry  P. ;  David  was  the 
grandfather  of  Thomas  Sutton  of  this  village. 

Gideon  Mullenix  came  from  Dutchess  county,  we  believe. 
His  house  was  the  only  one  of  stone.  He  resided  where  Tirn- 
othy  Benjamin  lived  of  late.  Wm.  Minard  came  from  Esopus. 
He  lived  on  the  clay  hill,  in  a  house  torn  down  about  1845. 
Benj.  Wood  lived  near  Liberty ville,  on  a  place  owned  of  late 
by  Daniel  I.  Hasbrouck.  Increase  Green  lived  on  the  place 
lately  occupied  by  Samuel  A.  DuBois.  David  Dickinson  was 
another  of  the  early  settlers  and  lived  in  a  log  house. 

Under  Bontecoe  Point  lived  Abel  A.  Ayers,  where  his  father, 
Thomas,  lived  before  him  on  a  tract  purchased  of  the  Beviers 


214  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

in  1808  and  here  Abel's  son,  Thomas,  afterwards  hved.  Benj. 
Roberts,  father  of  the  late  William  B.  of  Clintondale,  Hved  on 
the  other  side  of  the  mountain,  just  above  the  Clove. 

DeGarmo,  the  Sutton  brothers,  Moore,  Mullenix,  Minard, 
Wood,  Dickinson,  Green,  Ayres  and  Roberts  were  all  Friends. 

James  Pine  came  some  time  after  the  first  settlement  from 
Honk  Hill.     He  was  also  a  Friend. 

There  was  no  school  house  at  Butterville  until  about  1830. 
Before  that  time,  Mr.  Steen  tells  us,  his  brothers  went  all  the 
way  to  a  private  school  on  the  other  side  of  the  mountain  where 
Philip  Ayres  of  late  lived. 

About  1825  the  road  was  laid  out  across  the  mountain,  from 
Butterville  to  Wessel  Brodhead's  near  Alligerville.  The  state 
road  was  laid  out  from  Peter  D.  LeFever's  through  Canaan 
to  be  out  of  the  reach  of  high  water  in  the  Wallkill.  It  went 
through  Butterville  to  Libertyville. 

Abm.  Steen,  the  father  of  our  informant,  carried  on  the 
nursery  business  quite  extensively  about  1830.  He  raised 
his  own  stock  of  apple,  pear,  peach,  plum  and  cherry  trees. 
At  first  he  supplied  only  the  neighbors,  but  there  were  few 
nurseries  at  that  time  and  as  its  fame  spread  he  supplied 
trees  to  parties  in  Orange,  Sullivan  and  Dutchess  as  well 
as  in  Ulster  counties.  Once  a  customer  came  all  the  way 
from  the  Shaker  commuity,  near  Albany,  and  took  a  large 
load  of  trees.  Peter  Steen  did  a  great  portion  of  the  graft- 
ing for  his  father.  About  i860  the  nursery  business  was 
discontinued. 

The  Friends'  meeting  house,  at  Butterville  was  built 
about  1820.  Besides  those  in  the  neighborhood,  a  family 
named  Ballou  would  come  all  the  way  from  Greenfield  in 
Wawarsing  to  attend  the  meetings.  The  land  on  which 
the  meeting  house  was  built  was  given  for  the  purpose  by 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  215 

Gideon  Birdsall  of  Plattekill  Valley.  Abel  Ayres  was  the 
only  person  residing  in  the  neighborhood  who  frequently 
spoke  in  meetings.  Speakers  would  come  from  other  places. 
The  division  between  the  Orthodox  and  Hicksite  parties 
made  considerable  feeling  in  the  meeting. 

All  the  people  in  the  neighborhood  were  Friends  except 
Abram  Steen,  Jonas  Freer,  Martinas  Freer  and  a  few  others. 

Plutarch  in  1820 

In  all  the  Plutarch  neighborhood  there  were  only  two 
clearings  in  1820.  One  of  these  was  the  home  of  Abm.  J. 
Deyo,  whose  stone  house,  built  in  1812,  was  quite  certainly 
the  last  stone  house  built  in  New  Paltz. 

This  section  of  our  town  was  called  by  the  old  people 
Grawhow  (in  English  Great  Ridge),  a  name  by  which  it  is 
still  sometimes  called.  > 

Industries  in  This  Town  in  1820 

Northeast  of  our  village  at  about  that  time  Isaac  DuBois, 
grandfather  of  Isaac  DuBois  of  Ohioville,  had  a  grist  mill 
Avhere  Wm.  E.  DuBois  now  lives.  This  mill  of  Isaac  Du- 
Bois did  but  a  small  business,  there  being  insufficient  water. 

In  the  old  times  hats  were  not  all  made  in  large  factories 
as  at  present,  but  in  smaller  quantities.  A  man  named 
Jackson  carried  on  the  hatting  business  for  a  time,  in  a  shop 
across  the  street  from  the  old  graveyard,  and  had  three  or 
four  men  working  for  him.  After  a  while  he  failed.  Samuel 
Hasbrouck's  oldest  brother  carried  on  the  hatting  business 
at  Highland.  At  one  time  a  man  named  Kellogg  carried  on 
the  hatting  business,  about  a  mile  north  of  the  village. 

At  Rifton  there  was  a  carding  and  fulling  mill,  about  1810, 
before  the  "frist  mill  was  built  at  Dashville.     Farmers  would 


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bring  their  wool  there  to  have  it  carded  and  then  their  wives 
and  daughters  would  weave  and  spin  it.  Some  women 
would  go  from  house  to  house  as  spinsters. 

In  those  old  days  some  farmers  would  tan  their  own  sole 
leather,  but  the  upper  leather  was  manufactured  at  the  tan- 
nery. About  1812  Wm.  McDonald,  a  Scotchman,  had  a  tan- 
nery and  residence  on  the  east  side  of  the  Wallkill,  about 
200  yards  below  the  present  railroad  bridge  at  Springtown. 
A  millstone  still  marks  the  site,  but  the  buildings  have  dis- 
appeared and  the  land  passed  into  the  possession  of  Roelif 
Hasbrouck  and  subsequently  of  Charles  Eltinge.  McDon- 
ald's wife  was  a  Krom,  from  Marbletown.  After  a  while 
he  sold  the  tanner}'  and  located  just  south  of  Perry  Deyo's 
residence,  on  the  road  to  Libertyville,  where  he  built  a 
house. 

About  181 5  Rowland  DeGarmo,  father  of  Wm.  H.  De- 
Garmo,  came  from  Dutchess  county  and  settled  at  Butter- 
ville,  where  he  started  a  tannery  and  carried  on  an  extensive 
business.  In  those  days  oak  bark  was  used  exclusively  for 
tanning.  He  would  send  around  his  teams  to  the  farmers 
at  butchering  time  and  gather  up  hides,  which  he  would 
tan  on  shares. 

In  those  days  John  Hait,  father  of  Thad  Hait,  carried  on 
the  tanning  business  in  Plattekill.  There  was  a  tannery  at 
Centerville,  and  another  which  carried  on  a  large  business 
at  the  lower  toll-gate  on  the  Turnpike.  Now  there  is  not  a 
tannery  in  Southern  Ulster. 

Teachers  About  1820  and  Earlier 

We  have  found  among  the  old  papers  information  concern- 
ing only  one  schoolmaster  during  the  Dutch-speaking  period 
in  New  Paltz,  that  is  from  about   1750  to   1800.      This  was 


HISTORY  OF  XEW  PALTZ  217 

Joseph  Coddington.  who  was  probably  the  ancestor  of  the 
Coddington  family  in  Ulster  county,  though  we  have  no  infor- 
mation on  that  point.  Joseph  Coddington's  name  first  appears 
on  the  church  book  in  1758,  when  he  and  his  wife,  Catharine 
Vandemark,  had  a  child,  Sarah,  baptized.  At  different  dates 
the  baptism  of  other  children  are  recorded.  When  the  second 
stone  church  was  built  in  1771  Joseph  Coddington  performed 
a  great  amount  of  clerical  work,  every  item  of  which  is  set 
down  minutely  in  the  church  book  and  for  which  he  charged 
£12  19s.  In  a  document  dated  1781  Jonathan  LeFevre,  grand- 
father of  Hon.  Jacob  LeFevre,  and  his  brother  John  leased  for 
ten  years  to  Joseph  Coddington,  schoolmaster,  without  any  rent 
except  payment  of  taxes,  lots  No.  15  and  199,  being  a  portion 
of  the  1,529  acres  granted  by  letters  patent  to  Noah  Eltinge 
and  Nathaniel  LeFevre  and  being  within  the  neighborhood 
annexed  to  New  Paltz.  j\Ir.  Coddington  was  at  that  time  be- 
coming advanced  in  years  and  had  probably  concluded  to  give 
up  his  school,  which  must  have  been  in  the  old  stone  building, 
now  the  John  Drake  residence,  and  end  his  days  as  a  farmer. 
We  have  no  further  information  concerning  Joseph  Codding- 
ton, nor  have  we  any  information  concerning  teachers  at  New 
Paltz  in  the  period  succeeding  the  Revolutionary  War. 

Alexander  Doag 

One  of  the  most  noted  teachers  in  the  Kettleborough  neigh- 
borhood and  elsewhere  in  southern  LUster  in  the  early  part 
of  the  last  century  was  Alexander  Doag.  He  was  a  Scotchman, 
educated  at  the  University  of  Edinburgh  and  taught  at  Kettle- 
borough  for  a  considerable  period,  about  181 5.  Although  a 
man  of  fine  education  he  was  a  slave  of  the  drink  habit.  Each 
morning,  on  arriving  at  the  schoolhouse  he  would  take  a  drink 


2i8  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

from  a  bottle  in  his  desk.     In  his  latter  years  fortune  frowned 
upon  him  and  he  ended  his  days  in  our  county  poorhouse. 

Gilbert  C.  Rice 

A  man  of  different  type  from  Alexander  Doag,  at  least  so 
far  as  his  habits  was  concerned,  was  Gilbert  Cuthbert  Rice,  a 
young  Irishman,  who  taught  in  different  schools  in  this  vicinity 
at  about  the  same  time  as  Doag.  Rice  was  only  about  sixteen 
years  of  age  when  he  commenced  teaching  in  the  Bontecoe 
neighborhood.  He  was  a  youth  of  great  energy  and  determina- 
tion, and,  although  his  severity  in  school  would  not  be  tolerated 
at  the  present  day,  yet  after  teaching  at  Bontecoe  he  taught  at 
Kettleborough  and,  perhaps,  elsewhere  in  this  part  of  the  coun- 
try. He  was  a  Catholic  in  religion,  but  that  did  not  prevent 
him  from  attending  Protestant  church  service. 

Miss  Ransome 

One  of  the  first  lady  teachers  in  this  part  of  the  country  was 
Miss  Ransome,  who  taught  the  Kettleborough  school  for  a 
long  period,  about  1825.  Afterwards  she  married  Henry  G. 
DuBois  and  removed  to  Ohio.  She  was  a  lady  of  great  tact 
and  was  greatly  liked  by  the  children  and  parents.  She  taught 
the  girls  to  work  embroidery  as  well  as  to  understand  the  mys- 
teries of  arithmetic,  geography,  etc.  The  mother  of  the  editor 
of  the  Indcpcndciif  had  a  sampler,  which  she  worked  when  a 
little  girl  at  school  under  Miss  Ransome's  guidance,  and  which 
a  granddaughter  now  cherishes  among  her  treasures.  Very 
well,  too,  do  we  remember  mother's  advice  when  we  started 
out  as  a  lad  of  sixteen  to  teach  a  country  school,  that  we  should 
imitate  Miss  Ransome's  method  of  governing  a  school,  by  judi- 
cious praise,  which  was  indeed  in  striking  contrast  with  the 
severity  of  her  predecessor,  Mr.  Rice. 


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PART    II 


HISTORY  OF  THE  OLD  FAMILIES  OF 
NEW  PALTZ 


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CHAPTER  XXII 

The  Family  of  Louis  Bevier,  the  Patentee 
By  Louis  Bevier  of  Marbletown 

When  in  1628  the  last  of  the  Huguenot  strongholds  was 
taken  by  Richelieu,  the  Minister  of  Louis  XIII,  and  some 
of  the  disheartened  leaders  in  the  Huguenot  ranks  abjured 
their  faith  and  reentered  the  Church  of  Rome,  the  outlook 
of  Protestantism  seemed  dark  and  gloomy  indeed. 

But  the  mass  of  the  Huguenots  still  held  fast  the  doctrine 
of  the  Reformation  until  the  oppression  and  exactions  of  an 
unfriendly  and  unscrupulous  government  became  unendur- 
able. Then  those  in  the  northern  provinces  of  France  took 
refuge  in  the  adjoining  Protestant  lands. 

Thus  it  came  to  pass  that  the  Walloons  escaped  from  their 
oppressors  to  the  Palatinate.  This  movement  began  as 
early  as  1640  and  continued  until  1670,  and  even  later,  and 
it  was  during  this  period  that  many  of  those  Huguenots, 
who  afterwards  settled  at  New  Paltz,  found  a  temporary 
home  in  the  Palatinate. 

They  all  seem  to  have  applied  themselves  to  those  indus- 
trial "pursuits  to  which  they  had  been  accustomed  at  home, 
and  thus  became  a  valuable  element  among  the  people  with 
whom  they  were  sojourning. 

In  the  Palatinate  at  the  following  dates,  were : 

Louis  DuBois  and  family,  1659,  at  ^Nlanheim. 
Jean  Hasbrock  and  family,  1672,  at  Afanheim. 


224  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Christian  Deyo  and  family,  1675,  at  Mutterstadt. 
Abm.  Hasbrouck  (probably),  1675,  (his  wife  born  at  Mut- 
terstadt). 

Louis  Bevier  and  wife,  1675,  at  Frankenthal. 
Simon  and  Andre  Lefevre,  (probably)  at  Manheim. 
Anthony  Crispell,  (probably)    1660. 

The  names  in  the  above  list  with  those  of  Hugo  Freer, 
Abraham  and  Isaac  DuBois  and  Pierre  Deyo  make  up  the 
twelve  "Patentees,"  and  it  is  reasonably  certain  that  all  of 
them  were  in  the  Palatinate  just  before  their  departure  for 
Wiltwyck.  It  is  certain  that  all  of  them  were  in  Wiltwyck 
when,  under  the  leadership  of  Louis  DuBois,-  they  secured 
the  Patent  from  Gov.  Andros  in  1677. 

In  1678  these  men  with  their  families  proceeded  to  occupy 
the  land  and  to  build  shelters  for  their  families  upon  it  on 
the  site  of  the  village,  which,  by  general  consent,  they  now 
named  New  Paltz,  in  fond  remembrance  of  their  first  place 
of  rest  in  exile  from  their  native  land. 

Now  the  task  of  clearing  and  improving  the  land  was  be- 
gun, while  title  was  held  in  common,  no  general  division 
being  made  until  1703.  The  fact  that  no  serious  misunder- 
standing arose  during  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century  of  such 
joint  occupancy  should  redound  to  the  credit  of  this  amicable 
and  peace-loving  community. 

These  settlers  soon  organized  a  French  church  at  New 
Paltz  in  1683,  with  Louis  DuBois  as  elder  and  Hugo  Freer 
as  deacon,  and  having  Dr.  Daille  as  minister  until  1696. 

After  a  time  they  enjoyed  the  pastoral  care  of  the  min- 
isters of  the  Reformed  Dutch  church  of  Kingston. 

Louis  Bevier,  one  of  the  twelve  patentees  named  above, 
was  born  at  Lille  about  1648.  In  early  manhood  he  em- 
braced  the    doctrines   of   the    Reformation,    and,    with    his 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  225 

ardent  temperament,  he  soon  drew  down  upon  himself  so 
much  opposition,  and  eventually  persecution,  that  he  could 
no  longer  remain  in  safety  at  home,  so,  with  some  Hugue- 
not friends,  he  took  refuge  in  the  Palatinate,  and  settled 
near  Frankenthal,  in  which  vicinity  he  remained  until  1675. 
In  the  meanwhile  he  connected  himself  with  a  Protestant 
church  of  that  place,  and  in  1673  he  married  Marie  Le  Blanc, 
a  member  of  a  family  of  Huguenot  refugees  from  his  native 
place. 

In  1675,  being  desirous  to  emigrate  to  New  York  in  order 
to  rejoin  his  friends  and  relatives  who  had  preceded  him, 
he  obtained  from  the  pastor  of  the  church  in  Frankenthal  a 
certificate  stating  that  he  and  his  wife  were  members  in 
good  and  regular  standing,  and  commending  them  to  other 
churches  of  like  faith. 

Dated,  Frankenthal,  Alarch  5,  1675. 

H.  Lucasse,  Pastor. 

William  Gosse, 
Andre  Le  Blanc, 
Witnesses. 

The  descendants  of  almost  all  of  these  Paltz  Huguenot 
families  have  similar  certificates  still  in  their  possession. 

After  coming  to  New  York  Louis  Bevier  remained  with 
relatives  until  1677,  when  he  united  with  the  other  patentees 
in  purchasing  from  the  Indians  the  land  for  which  they 
afterward  obtained  the  Patent. 

From  the  spring  of  1678  he,  with  his  fellow  Patentees, 
remained  here  without  any  marked  change  for  many  years, 
and  his  children  were  born  and  reared  in  the  faith  of  their 
parents,   all  of  them  being  active  in  the  maintenance  of  the 


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Protestant  church,  first  in  New  Paltz  and  later  in  the  several 
communities  where  they  afterward  settled. 

In  1710,  his  wife  being  dead,  Louis  Bevier  proceeded  to 
London  and  procured  his  "Denization"  papers  qualifying 
him  as"  an  English  citizen.  He  then  went  to  France  where, 
as  tradition  reports,  he  met  with  a  rough  reception,  but,  not- 
withstanding this,  it  is  highly  probable  that  his  business 
was  in  part  satisfactorily  adjusted  and  that  he  recovered  at 
least  some  of  his  property. 

Coming  home  again  to  New  Paltz  he  bought  lands  in 
Wawarsing  upon  which  his  sons  Jean  and  Abraham  set- 
tled, and  he  likewise  bought  the  land  at  Marbletown  upon 
which  his  son  Louis  settled  in  1715. 

Meanwhile  his  son  Samuel  occupied  his  lands  at  New 
Paltz,  where  he  himself  remained  in  his  declining  years, 
his  other  son,  Andries,  being  in  some  manner  disabled,  re- 
mained with  him,  and  his  only  living  daughter  was  married 
to  Jacob  Hasbrouck,  and  settled  at  New  Paltz. 

Realizing  that  his  end  was  near,  on  ]May  2,  1720,  he  dis- 
posed of  all  his  real  and  personal  estate  by  will,  dividing 
it  equally  among  his  six  children,  deferring  only  so  far  to 
the  custom  of  the  times  as  to  give  to  Jean  one  pound  extra 
for  his  birthright. 

A  short  time  after  this  he  died  and  was  buried  at  New 
Paltz;  his  will  was  admitted  to  probate  July  4,  1720. 

Louis  Bevier's  children  were : 

1.  Maria,  born  July  9,  1674,  died  in  infancy. 

2.  Jean,  bom  Jan.    2.    1676,  married   Catharine   Montanye. 

3.  Abraham,  born  Jan.  20,  1678,  married  Rachel  Vernooy. 

4.  Samuel,  born  Jan.  21,  1680,  married  Alagdalena  Blanshan. 

5.  Andries,  born  July  12,  1682,  single,  died  1768. 

6.  Louis,  born  Nov.  6,  1684,  married  Elizabeth  Hasbrouck. 


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7.  Esther,  born  Nov.  16,  1686,  married  Jacob  Hasbrouck. 

8.  Solomon,  born  July  12,  1689,  died  in  infancy. 

The  names  of  the  children,  with  the  dates  of  their  birth, 
are  found  in  the  original  record  as  made  in  French  appar- 
ently by  Louis  Bevier  himself  on  a  fly-leaf  of  an  old  folio 
Bible  still  in  our  possession. 

Jean  Bevier 

Two  of  the  daughters  of  Jean  Bevier  perished  with  their 
families  in  the  attack  on  the  settlement  at  Fantinekill,  made 
by  the  Indians  under  Brandt  in  1779.  These  were  Eliza- 
beth, who  had  married  her  cousin,  Isaac  Bevier,  son  of  Sam- 
uel, and  Johannah,  the  wife  of  Michael  Sax.  The  surviving 
descendants  of  Jean  Bevier  afterwards  removed  to  the  west. 

Some  years  ago,  in  digging  down  the  foundation  of  the 
old  Bevier  house  near  Napanoch,  the  fragments  of  a  boy's 
diary  were  found  in  a  recess  which  formed  part  of  the  chim- 
ney. These  records  were  written  by  Cornelius,  a  son  of 
Captain  Andries  Bevier,  nephew  of  the  murdered  women. 
The  translation  is  given  below  as  it  was  sent  to  me : 

"Went  to  Warwarsing  with  a  load  of  rye  to  mill  for 
father.  Stopped  at  the  tavern,  took  a  drink  and  got  some 
tobacco.  Some  of  Captain  Cortland's  soldiers  were  there 
and  drinking  hard ;  some  got  drunk  and  they  had  to  take 
their  guns  away;  two  of  them  tackled  Tewn  Osterhoudt 
because  he  wouldn't  treat,  but  they  were  so  drunk  he 
throwed  both  of  them  and  choked  one  of  them  pretty  badly. 

"Went  to  the  fort  with  some  potatoes.  Sam  went  with 
me.  Heard  that  Indian  tracks  had  been  seen  above  Honk 
-Falls.  Coon  Bevier  said  he  could  overturn  any  living  In- 
dian, and  hoped  they  would  try  and  catch  him. 


228  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

"All  woke  up  by  guns.  Heard  them  shoot  towards  Fan- 
tinekill.  After  breakfast  saw  smoke  that  way,  like  a  build- 
ing. Heard  there  were  Indians.  Jesse's  dog  came  down 
here,  and  after  a  while  Captain  Cortland's  soldiers  came  up 
and  father  went  with  them,  with  all  the  men  toward  Fan- 
tinekill  and  left  us  all  alone.  We  heard  them  shoot  after 
they  had  been  gone  about  an  hour  and  we  heard  the  Indians 
yell,  and  then  we  all  started  for  the  mountain.  Sam  and  I 
took  the  silver  mugs,  the  spoons  and  some  money,  and 
started  for  the  mountain.  More  than  twenty  people  came 
with  us  because  we  knew  the  path  over,  and  they  all  car- 
ried their  best  things  with  them.  We  stopped  by  the 
spring  and  looked  down,  and  saw  the  fire  at  Mike  Sock's 
and  heard  them  shoot  at  Jesse's.  Black  Bob  came  up  to  us 
on  the  path.  He  said  he  had  run  from  the  Fantinekill,  and 
that  the  Indians  had  killed  them  all.  We  all  started  on  foot 
as  we  could  go,  and  went  along  the  mountain  to  Maratanza 
Pond,  and  then  hid  all  the  silver  and  other  things  we  could 
in  the  sand,  and  then  Sam  and  I  went  over  to  the  home  of 
Mentz  and  rested.  Mrs.  Mentz  gave  us  some  milk.  They 
were  all  scared.  When  we  got  to  the  pond,  we  went  to  the 
edge  of  the  rocks  and  looked  again.  All  the  fire  was  out 
except  John  Bodley's  house,  which  smoked  yet ;  we  thought 
we  could  hear  some  shooting,  but  not  sure.  We  went  over 
to  Shawangunk  and  told  the  people.  Sam  and  I  were  bare- 
footed and  outran  most  of  the  others  until  I  hurt  my  foot 
in  the  burnt  wood  above  Napanoch  and  it  made  me  lame. 
In  the  night  some  of  our  folks  came  over ;  and  said  that 
the  Indians  had  gone,  and  that  some  of  the  people  were  lost 
in  the  mountains. 

"I  went  back  over  the  mountain  and  rode  part  of  the  way 
on  a  horse,  as  my  foot  was  lame.     We  went  down  to  Fan- 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  229 

tinekill  and  found  the  houses  burned  except  Jesse  Bevier's, 
which  was  partly  burned,  but  the  soldiers  drove  the  In- 
dians off. 

"They  had  killed  all  Mike  Sock's  family  before  the  sol- 
diers came.     It  looked  terrible  around  there." 

Abraham  Bevier 

Some  of  the  descendants  of  Abraham  Bevier  have  re- 
mained in  Wawarsing-  to  the  present  day,  represented  in 
the  fourth  generation  by  Andries,  who  was  a  captain  of 
militia  and  prominent  in  the  business  of  the  town;  and  by 
Conrad,  who  also  served  in  the  militia  and  was  a  member 
of  the  Legislature  in  1777.  In  the  fifth  generation  Dr. 
Benjamin  R.  Bevier  was  a  widely-known  physician  of  Na- 
panoch  and  he  is  followed  by  his  son,  Dr.  Benjamin  Rush 
Bevier.  Other  descendants  of  Abraham  removed  to  neigh- 
boring towns,  and  to  various  points  in  the  west  and  south. 

One  of  his  grandsons  went  to  New  Paltz,  another  to 
Shawangunk,  while  still  another  removed  to  Oil  Creek, 
Penn.  In  the  fifth  generation  the  family  was  still  more 
widely  scattered,  five  sons  of  Captain  Andries  Bevier  re- 
moved to  Owasco,  N.  Y.,  and  his  daughter  Rachel  married 
Henry  J.  Brinkerhoff  of  Mansfield,  Ohio,  and  is  the  grand- 
mother of  Gen.  Roelif  Brinkerhoff.  One  of  the  sons,  Abra- 
ham J.  Bevier,  removed  to  Stark  county,  111.,  another  to 
Fairfax,  Va.  Johannes,  the  son  of  Cornelius,  went  to  wes- 
tern New  York  and  his  children  later  removed  to  Wiscon- 
sin and  Illinois. 

In  the  sixth  generation  we  find  Dr.  Matthew  Bevier  of 
Owasco,  Richard  Brodhead  Bevier  of  Gardiner,  Abraham  A, 
Bevier  of  Napanoch,  Rev.  Johannes  Hornbeck  Bevier,  at 


230  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

one  time  editor  of  the  Christian  Intelligencer.     John  Harden-' 
bergh    Bevier   of    Bath,    111.,    Dr.    Wm.    Bevier   of   Denning, 
Ulster  county,  N.  Y.,  Benjamin  Bevier  of  Wilcox,  Penn., 
Simon  Bevier  of  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  and  A.  L.  R.  Bevier  of 
Stark  county,  111. 

Samuel  Bevier 

Samuel  Bevier,  the  son  of  Louis  the  immigrant,  remained 
on  the  old  homestead  at  New  Paltz  and  his  father  made  his 
home  with  him  until  his  death  in  1720. 

Of  his  children  Abraham,  Jacob  and  Philip  settled  at  New 
Paltz,  Abraham  being  an  Associate  Judge  of  that  town. 
Johannes  moved  to  Shawangunk  where  he  was  a  prominent 
citizen  and  a  leading  elder  in  the  church.  Isaac  removed 
to  Rochester  and  his  widow  and  two  sons  were  killed  by 
the  Indians.  Five  grandsons  of  Samuel  Bevier  removed  to 
western  New  York,  being  followed  in  the  next  generation 
by  many  more  of  the  family,  so  that  there  are  very  few  of 
Samuel's  line  now  living  in  Ulster  county.  This  branch 
of  the  Bevier  family  is  represented  in  the  seventh  generation 
by  Orville  D.  Bevier  of  New  York  city  and  by  Mrs.  Henry 
A.  Temple  of  St.  John,  N.  B. 

Louis  Bevier 

Louis  Bevier,  the  second  of  the  name,  settled  in  Marble- 
town  in  1 71 5  on  the  land  purchased  for  him  by  his  father 
of  Peter  Van  Leuvan.  He  married  Elizabeth  Hasbrouck, 
daughter  of  Jean  Hasbrouck  of  New  Paltz,  and  died  in 
1753.  His  only  child,  Louis,  was  born  April  29,  1717.  He 
was  a  noted  surveyor  and  also  served  as  Supervisor  of  his 
town.     He  married,  in  1745,  Esther,  daughter  of  Philip  Du- 


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HOUSE  OF   LOUIS   BEVIER  AT   MARBLETOWN 


232  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Bois  of  Rochester,  he  died  in  1772.     Of  this  third  Louis  his 
cousin  Abraham  Hasbrouck  writes : 

"My  cousin,  Louis  Bevier,  departed  this  transitory  life 
the  29th  day  of  September,  at  two  o'clock  in  the  morning 
and  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  1772,  aged  55  years,  4  months, 
19  days,  and  rests  in  the  Lord  until  his  coming.  He  was  a 
good  husband,  a  tender  father,  a  good  master,  a  kind  neigh- 
bor, a  true  friend  to  liberty,  a  pillar  in  the  church  at  Mar- 
bletown  and  elsewhere,  an  honest  gentleman.  He  was  en- 
dowed with  a  good  share  of  knowledge,  he  was  a  comely 
man  of  middle  stature,  strong  of  body.  He  died  of  an 
apoplectic  fit  in  the  night,  very  suddenly,  before  his  wife 
and  children  could  come  to  him  to  see  his  exit.'^ 

Louis  Bevier,  the  third,  had  two  sons  that  survived  him, 
David  and  Philip.  David,  the  grandfather  of  the  writer, 
remained  on  the  Marbletown  homestead  where  I  now  reside  ; 
while  Philip  removed  to  Rochester.  Philip  served  as  a 
Member  of  the  Assembly  in  1777  and  was  a  colonel  in  the 
regular  army  during  the  Revolution.  His  only  son.  Dr. 
Louis  D.  B.  Bevier,  was  a  prominent  physician,  and  died 
in  185 1,  leaving  no  heirs. 

David  Bevier,  at  the  age  of  29  years,  was  an  adjutant  in  a 
regiment  of  militia  under  Col.  Levi  Pawling,  later  he  was 
one  of  the  Committee  of  Safety.  He  married,  in  1778, 
Maria,  daughter  of  Abraham  Hasbrouck  of  Kingston,  and 
in  deference  to  her  wishes  the  family  ceased  using  the  French 
language  and  adopted  the  Dutch. 

David  Bevier  had  two  sons,  the  elder  Louis  and  the 
younger  Joseph.  For  the  latter  he  purchased  a  farm  at 
Catskill,  but  he  afterwards  sold  this  place  and  returned  to 
the  town  of  Olive,  in  Ulster  county,  where  he  resided  till 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  233 

his  death  in  1840.  Joseph  had  but  one  son,  David,  whose 
sons,  Joseph  and  Hasbrouck,  are  settled  in  Olive,  while  his 
youngest  son,  Charles,  removed  to  Minnesota. 

The  elder  son,  Louis,  father  of  the  writer,  remained  at 
Marbletown  where  he  married  Maria  Eltinge,  daughter  of 
Cornelius  Eltinge  of  Hurley.  He  was  a  captain  in  the  war 
of  1812  and  died  in  1826.  His  only  son  is  the  writer  of  the 
present  sketch. 

This  line  is  further  represented  in  the  seventh  generation 
by  Louis  Bevier,  Jr.,  Professor  of  Greek  in  Rutgers  College, 
New  Brunswick,  N.  J.,  and  in  the  eighth  generation  by  Louis 
Bevier  third,  still  a  minor. 

Genealogy  of  the  Bevier  Family 
I.     Louis  Bevier,  Married  in  1673,  Marie  Le  Blanc 

2ND    GENERATION 

Marie,  born  July  19,  1674,  died  in  infancy. 

Jean,  born  Jan.  29,  1676,  married  April  14,  1712,  settled  at 
Wawarsing,  died   1745.     Catharine  Montanye. 

Abraham,  born  Jan.  20,  1678,  married  Feb.  18,  1707,  set- 
tled at  Wawarsing,  died  1774.     Rachel  Vernooy. 

Samuel,  born  Jan.  21,  1680.  Settled  at  New  Paltz,  died 
1746.    Magdalena  Blanshan,  daughter  of  Matthese  Blanshan. 

Andries,  born  July  12,  1682,  unmarried,  settled  at  New 
Paltz,  died  1768. 

Louis,  born  Nov.  6,  1684,  married  May  6,  1713,  settled  at 
Marbletown,  died  Feb.  10,  1753.  Elizabeth  Hasbrouck, 
daughter  of  Jean,  born  Feb.  25,  1685,  died  June  10,  1760. 

Esther,  born  Nov.  16,  1686,  married  Nov.  7,  1714.  Jacob 
Hasbrouck,  son  of  Jean. 

Solomon,  born  July  12,  1689,  died  young. 


234  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

2.     Jean  Bevier,  Married  Catharine  Montanye 
3RD  generation 

Marie,  born  March  7,  1713,  died  in  infancy. 

Elenora,  born  May  23,  1714,  settled  at  Minnisink.  Benja- 
min Rolscher. 

Elizabeth,  born  Feb.  10,  1717,  married  1751,  settled  at 
Wawarsing,  died  1779.  Isaac  Bevier,  son  of  Samuel,  born 
Dec.  25,  1714. 

Johanna,  born  May  15,  1720,  married  April  23,  1753,  set- 
tled at  Wawarsing,  died  1779.     Michael  Sax. 

Esther,  born  Oct.  18,  1722,  married  May  4,  1748.  Solomon 
Westbrook,  settled  at  Minnisink. 

Louis  J.,  born  Oct.  18,  1724,  unmarried,  settled  at  Wawar- 
sing, died  1812. 

Jesse,  born  May  11,  1729,  married,  settled  at  Wawarsing, 
died  1803.     Elizabeth  Hoffman. 

Johannes,  born  June  18,  1727,  died  in  infancy. 

3.     Jesse  Bevier,  IMarried  Elizabeth  Hoffman 
4th  generation 

Blandina,  born  1762,  settled  at  Wawarsing.  William  Bod- 
ley;   3  children  baptized — Wawarsing  records. 

David,  born  April  i,  1764,  settled  at  Wawarsing.  Sally 
Gier. 

Catharine,  born  Aug.  i,  1765,  settled  at  Kerhonkson. 
Benjamin  Depuy,  Jr.;  8  children  baptized. 

John,  born  Nov.  30,  1758,  married  Feb.,  1792,  settled  at 
Jackson  county,  Indiana.     Martha  Green  of  Reddington. 

Lea,  born  Sept.  16,  1771,  married  April  9,  1792.  William 
W.  DeWitt;   4  children  baptized. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  235^ 

4.     David  Bevier,  Married  Sally  Gier 
5th  generation 

Mary  White,  born  June  17,  1806. 

Charles,  born  July  4,  1808. 

Elizabeth  Hoffman,  born  Sept.  20,  1810. 

4.     John  Bevier^  Married  Martha  Green 

Caty,  bom  Jan.  27,  1794. 

Ann  Elizabeth,  born  Nov.  5,  1795,  married  DeWitt  Depuy, 
settled  at  Rochester. 

Some  of  these  two  families  moved  to  Jackson  county, 
Indiana. 

2.     Abraham  Bevier,  Married  Rachel  Vernooy 
3RD  generation 

Louis,  born  1708,  unmarried,  died  in  1750. 

Anna,  born  May  7,  1710,  died  in  infancy. 

Cornelius,  born  Jan.  20,  1712,  unmarried,  died  in  1770. 

Samuel,  born  Aug-.  28,  1715,  married  June  10,  1739,  set- 
tled at  Wawarsing-,  died  1774.  Sarah  LeFevre,  daughter  of 
Andries,  born  March  i,  1719. 

Jacob,  born  Sept.  29,  1716,  married  Feb.  23,  1751,  settled 
at  Wawarsing,  died  1800.     Anna  Vernooy. 

Abraham,  born  Jan.  10,  1720,  died  aged  19  (see  will). 

Maria,  born  Jan,  21,  1722,  married  June  20,  1745.  Benja- 
min DuBois,  son  of  Daniel,  settled  at  New  Paltz. 

Johannes,  born  April  26,  1724,  married  first  Aug.  9,  1747, 
second  Sept.  18,  1764,  Wawarsing,  died  1797.  First,  Rachel 
LeFevre,  daughter  of  Andries,  born  June  23,  1728.  Second, 
Elizabeth  VanVleit,  nee  Gonzales. 


236  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Benjamin,  born  May  7,  1727,  married  Dec.  13,  1760,  died 
1803.  Elizabeth  Van  Keuren,  bom  July  29,  1726,  daughter 
of  Tjerck  Matthysen  and  Maria  Ten  Eyck. 

Daniel,  unmarried,  died  1786. 

3.     Samuel  Bevier,  Married  Sarah  LeFevre 
4TH  generation 

Andries,  born  April  14,  1742,  married  June  21,  1764,  settled 
at  Wawarsing,  died  1800.  Jacomyntje  DuBois,  born  April  21, 
1745,  daughter  of  Cornelius  DuBois. 

Abraham,  Jr.,  born  Nov.  18,  1746,  settled  at  Shawangunk. 
Maria  DuBois,  bom  April  20,  1746,  daughter  of  Jonathan. 

Maria,  born  Oct.  17,  1750,  married  April  23,  1772.  Corne- 
lius G.  Vernooy,  Rochester. 

Rachel,  born  Oct.  17,  1750,  married  April  19,  1776.  Johan- 
nes A.  DeWitt,  Rochester. 

Maria  and  Rachel  were  twins. 

Matthew,  born  1744,  married  Dec.  2,  1769,  Shawangunk. 
Jacomytje  Bevier,  born  Sept.  28,  1744,  daughter  of  Abram  S. 

Elizabeth,  born  Feb.  18,  1753,  married.  Arthur  Morris, 
Rochester. 

Cornelia,  born  Jan.  21,  1755,  married,  first  Dec.  9,  1774. 
First,  Matthew  Newkirk,  Hurley.  Second,  Peter  Bevier, 
Chenango. 

3.     Jacob  Bevier,  Married  Anna  Vernooy 
4th  generation 

Jenneke,  born  Jan.  16,  1752,  died  in  infancy. 
Abraham,  born  July    19,    1753,   married,   Wawarsing,   died 
1825.     First,  Margaret  LeFevre,  born  Oct.  26,  1752,  daughter 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  237 

of  Abraham  LeFevre.  Second,  Abagail  Vanderbilt.  Third, 
Sarah  Vernooy,  widow. 

Sarah,  born  Aug.  28,  1755,  married.  CorneHus  Bevier,  son 
of  Johannes. 

Rachal,  born  Feb.  10,  1759,  died  young. 

Elizabeth,  born  1762,  unmarried,  died  1828. 

Anna,  born  May  12,  1765,  married.  John  J.  DuBois,  born 
Aug.  4,  1 75 1,  son  of  Johannes  DuBois  and  Judith  Wynkoop, 
Hurley. 

Catherine,  born  July  28,  1768,  married  Nov.  8,  1796.  Peter 
Jansen,  born  Nov.  16,  1755,  Marbletown. 

3.     Johannes    Bevier,    Married,    ist    Rachel    LeFevre; 
2ND  Cornelia  Vernooy 

4TH  generation 

Maria,  born  1750,  married,  Auburn,  John  L.  Hardenberg. 
2nd  wife,  Martha  Brinkerhoff. 

Sarah,  born  June  16,  1752,  married,  Mamakating.  Manuel 
Gonsaulus. 

Andries  LeFevre,  born  March  20,  1754,  died  young. 

Simon  Bevier,  born  April  29,  1756,  married  Dec.  11,  1790, 
Wawarsing.  Maria  Bevier,  daughter  of  Benjamin,  born  Oct. 
16,  1768.     Elizabeth  Cantine. 

Conrad,  born  May  7,  1758,  Napanock.     Elizabeth  Roosa. 

Cornelius,  born  1760,  Wawarsing,  died  1790.  Sarah  Bevier, 
daughter  of  Jacobus,  Cornelia  Vernooy. 

Cornelia,  born  1762,  Chenango,  N.  Y.  Petrus  Bevier,  born 
April  8,  1753,  son  of  Philip. 

Jacob  J.,  born  June  i,  1766,  married  Aug.  6,  1786,  Leuren- 
kill.     Margaret  DeWitt. 


238  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Daniel,  born  Dec.  17,  1768,  married  Nov.  19,  1791,  Oil  Creek. 
Sarah  Bevier,  daughter  of  Abraham  Bevier,  Jr. 

Abraham,  born  March  11,  1770,  married  Dec.  11,  1793, 
Leurenkill.     Jennike  Vernooy. 

Benjamin,  Married  Elizabeth  VanKeuren 
4TH  generation 

Benjamin,  born  1762,  married  1790,  Wawarsing.  Leah 
Roosa. 

Maritje,  born  Oct.  16,  1768,  married  Feb.  i,  1790,  Wawar- 
sing, died  1792.  Simon  Bevier,  born  1756,  son  of  Johannes; 
2nd  wife,  Eliza  Cantine. 

4.     Andries  Bevier,  Married  Jacomyntje  DuBois 
5TH  generation 

Sarah,  born  Aug.  i,  1765,  unmarried,  settled  in  Owasco. 

Samuel,  born  Oct,  25,  1766,  married,  settled  in  Cayuga 
county.  Elizabeth  Bevier,  born  1768,  daughter  of  Abm. 
Bevier. 

Cornelius,  born  April  27,  1769,  married,  settled  in  Cayuga 
county.     Susan  Nottingham. 

Wilhelmus,  born  May  10,  1771,  married  Jan.  11,  1801,  set- 
tled at  Wawarsing.     Annatje  Hoornbeck,  born  May  29,  1771. 

Lewis,  born  Dec.  4,  1773,  married  Oct.  20,  1805,  settled  ut 
Wawarsing,  died  1838.     Garretje  VanKeuren. 

Abraham  A.,  born  July  28,  1776,  married  Aug.  8,  1801,  set- 
tled at  Wawarsing.     Ann  .Perrine. 

Marjritje,  May  30,  1779,  unmarried,  Owasco. 

Jannet,  born  Aug.  30,  1781,  died  in  infancy. 

Josiah,  born  Feb.  9,  1785,  married,  Owasco.     ist,  Hannah 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  239 

Brinkerhoff.     2nd,  Leah  Bevier,  born  March  23,  1787,  daugh- 
ter of  Conrad  Bevier. 

Rachel,  born  March  i,  1791,  married.  Henry  J.  Brinker- 
hoff, Mansfield,  Ohio. 

4.     Abraham  Bevier,  Married  Maria  DuBois 

Elizabeth,  born  Nov.  20,  1768,  married.  Samuel  Bevier, 
born  Oct.  25,  1766,  son  of  Andries. 

Sarah,  born  Sept.  9,  1770,  married  Nov.  19,  1791.  Daniel 
Bevier,  born  Dec.  17,  1768,  son  of  Johannes,  Oil  Creek. 

Samuel,  born  Jan.  4,  1772. 

Rachel,  born  May  7,  1774. 

Jonathan,  born  May  2y,  1776. 

Nathaniel  DuBois,  born  Sept.  13,  1777,  Shawangunk. 

4.     Matthew  Bevier,  Married  Jacomyntje  Bevier 
5th  generation 

Abraham,  born  Jan.  8,  1772. 
Sarah,  born  July  9,  1775. 
Samuel,  born  Nov.  7,  1777. 
Margaret,  born  July  13,  1780. 
Cornelius,  born  Nov.  19,  1784. 

4.     Abraham    Bevier,  Married,    ist    Margaret    LeFevre, 

2ND  Abby  Vanderbilt,  3RD  Sarah  Vernogy 

5th  generation 

Andries,  born  Oct.  28,  1780,  married  Feb.  18,  1805,  settled 
in  Gardiner,  died  Jan.,  1845.  Mary  Deyo,  born  Dec.  2,  1785, 
died  April  19,  1858. 

Maria,  born  Feb.  10,  1783,  married  July  18,  1802,  settled  at 
Wawarsing.     Andries  I.  LeFevre,  born  Oct.  5,  1777. 

Rachel,  born  Oct.  25,  1785. 


240  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Lena,  born  Nov.  i6,  1787,  married.     Simon  Muller. 

Cornelia,  born  May  6,  1790. 

Marjrietje,  born  Aug.  11,  1791,  unmarried. 

Abagail,  born  Nov.   17,  1794,  married.     David  McKinstry. 

4.     Conrad  Bevier,  Married  Elizabeth  Roosa 
5th  generation 

Benjamin  Rosa,  born  Sept.  10,  1782,  married,  settled  in 
Napanoch,  died  in  1865.  Catharine  Ten  Eyck,  daughter  of 
Richard  Ten  Eyck. 

Matthew,  born  Oct.  2,  1785,  married,  settled  in  Bath,  111. 
Cornelia  Hardenburgh. 

Lea,  born  March  23,  1787,  2nd  wife  of  Josiah  Bevier,  son  of 
Andries  Bevier,  Owasco. 

Lucas,  born  April  2,  1792,  unmarried. 

Maria,  born  July  18,  1795,  married.  Simon  Bevier,  born 
March  5,  1788,  son  of  Cornelius,  Wawarsing, 

Jane,  born  March  19,  1799,  married.  Moses  C.  Depuy, 
Rochester. 

4.     Cornelius  Bevier,  Married,   ist  Sarah   Bevier, 
2ND  Cornelia  Vernooy 

5th  generation 

Sarah,  born  April  20,  1777,  married,  Wawarsing.  Jacob 
Hermance. 

Johannes,  born  Oct.  15,  1784,  married  Aug.  14,  1808,  Lacka- 
wack,  died  Feb.  22,  1842.     Elizabeth  Tearhout,  July  31,  1792. 

Conrad,  born  April  2,  1786,  married,  Lackawack.  Sarah 
Vernooy. 

Simon,  born  1788,  Wawarsing,  died  April  23,  1846.  Maria 
Bevier,  born  July  18,  1795,  daughter  of  Conrad. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  241 

4.     Simon  Bevier,  Married,   ist  Maria  Bevier, 
2ND  Elizabeth  Cantine 

5TH  generation 

Simon,  born  Oct.  3,  1792,  died  in  infancy. 

Samuel,  born  Oct.  3,  1796.  married,  Oil  Creek.  Maria  Van 
Wagenen. 

Magdalena,  born  April  9,  1798,  unmarried,  ButTalo. 

Peter,  born  March  4,  1802,  married  Jan.  i,  1828,  Drowned 
Lands.     Elizabeth  Terwilliger ;    no  children. 

Elijah,  born  Dec.  5,  1805,  married,  Owasco,  Onondaga 
county,  Elizabeth  Bevier. 

Rachel,  born  Aug.  i,  1808,  married,  Wawarsing.  Peter 
Cantine  ;   no  children. 

Maria,  born  March  7,  181 1,  married.  Stephen  Dewitt, 
Western  New  York. 

Andrew,  born  Sept.  20,  181 3,  married,  Western  New  York. 
Martha  J.  Shaver. 

Margaret,  born  Feb.  14,  1816,  married.  Andries  Dewitt,  Ohio. 

4.     Jacob  J.  Bevier,  Married  Margaret  Dewitt 

5TH    GENERATION 

Johannes  Dewitt,  born  Sept.  14,  1787,  Leurenkill. 

Cornelius,  born  Feb.  26,  1791. 

Alexander,  born  Sept.  14,  1792. 

Richard  Brodhead.  born  July  10,  1796. 

Daniel. 

Matthew. 

Nathaniel. 

Simon. 

Catharine. 

Leah. 


242  HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z 

4.     Daniel  Bevier,  Married  Sarah  Bevier 
5th  generation 

Maria,  born  Feb.  24,  1793. 

Johannes,  born  Nov.  13,  1794,  Oil  Creek. 

4.     Abraham  J.  Bevier,  Married  Jenneke  Vernooy 
5TII  generation 

Jenneke,  born  Sept.  30,  1794,  married.  John  A.  Snyder, 
Ellenville. 

EHzabeth,  born  April  20,  1796,  married,  Wawarsing;  ist, 
Moses  Bevier,  son  of  Benjamin  ;   2d,  Charles  Shultz. 

Nathan,  born  Feb.  11,  1798,  married,  Lafayette,  Stark 
county.  111.     Sarah  Brannen. 

Maria  Vernooy,  born  May  28,  1800,  married.    Daniel  Elmore. 

Jacob  Hoornbeck,  born  Oct.  29,  1802,  died  in  infancy. 

Jacob  Hoornbeck,  born  Aug.  15,  1805,  married,  Fairfax 
county,  Va.,  died  Dec.  6,  1888.     Sarah  Devine. 

Sarah  Vernooy,  born  March  5,  181 1,  married.  Silas  Gillett, 
Illinois. 

4.     Benjamin  Bevier,  Married  Leah  Roosa 

5th  generation 

Elizabeth,  born  Sept.  16,  1790,  married.  Luke  Dewitt, 
Owasco. 

Jannetje,  born  May  9,  1795.     Jophat  Hoornbeck,  Rochester. 

Levi,  born  July  22,  1797,  died  young. 

Moses,  born  Oct.  18,  1799,  married,  Ellenville,  died  Nov. 
22,  1828.  Elizabeth  Bevier,  born  April  20,  1796.  (2d  hus- 
band Chas.  Schultz.) 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  243 

Lewis,  born  Oct.  25,  1802,  married,  Wawarsing.  Gertrude 
Smeedes ;   no  children. 

Maria,  born  Jan.  15,  1805. 
Ann,  born  Oct.  25,  1807. 

Tjerck,  born •,  married ,  died  1830. 

Sarah  Dewitt,  daughter  of  Reuben  Dewitt. 

2.     Samuel  Bevier,  Married  Magdalena  Blanjean 
3d  generation 

Solomon,  born  May  13,  1711,  died  in  infancy. 

Matthew,  born  June  28,  1712,  died  1746. 

Abraham,  born  June,  1713,  married  Jan.  3,  1742.  Settled  at 
New  Paltz,  died  1796.  Margaret  Elting,  born  May  18.  1718, 
daughter  of  Roelof  Elting. 

Isaac,  born  Dec.  25,  1714,  married  1751,  settled  at  Wawar- 
sing.  Elizabeth  Bevier,  born  Feb.  10,  1727,  daughter  of  Jean 
Bevier. 

Jacobus,  born  April  29,  1716.  married  1740.  New  Paltz. 
Antje  Freer. 

Margaret,  born  June  30,  171 7.  married  June  17,  1737,  Bloom- 
ingdale.  Matthew  LeFevre,  born  April  10.  17 10.  son  of 
Andries. 

Maria,  born  Oct.  5,  1718,  married  Abraham  LeFevre,  born 
March  25,  1716,  son  of  Jan  LeFevre. 

Louis  S.,  born  Jan.  10,  1720,  died  young. 

Esther,  born  Jan.  8,  1721,  married.  Cornelius  L.  Brink, 
Shawangunk. 

Johannes,  born  Sept.  9,  1722,  married  Sept.  2,  1749,  Sha- 
wangunk, died  1796.  Magdalena  LeFevre,  born  Oct.  11,  1724, 
daughter  of  Simon. 

Philip,  born  Feb.  9,  1724,  married  July  10,  1748,  Tryntje 
Low.     2nd  husband  Adriance  Newkirk,  of  Hurlev. 


244  HISTORY  OF  XEIV  PALTZ 

3.     Abraham  Bevier,  ^Iarried  ]>iIargaret  Eltinge 

4TH  generation 

Sarah,  born  June  25,  1744,  married  Oct.  25.  1765.  Petrus 
Hasbrouck,  born  Aug.  20.  1738,  New  Paltz. 

Jacomyntje,  born  Sept.  28,  1746,  married  Dec.  2, 
1769.  Matthew^  Bevier,  born  1744,  son  of  Samuel, 
Shawangunk. 

Solomon,  born  Dec.  4,  1748,  married,  died  Nov.  10,  1810. 
Elenor  Griffin,  born  Dec.  22,  1745,  died  Aug.  12,  1820. 

Katrintje.  born  Oct.  19,  1750,  married  Jan.  24,  1762.  Ma- 
thusalem  DuBois.  bom  ^lay  2}^.  1742,  son  of  Ephriam. 

Roelof  Eltinge,  born  ]\Iay  16,  1753,  died  young. 

Maria,  born  March  18,  1755,  married.  Isaac  Hasbrouck, 
born  April  13,  1746,  son  of  Daniel. 

Abraham  A.,  born  Oct.  29,  1758,  married.  Chenango,  died 
1817.     Maria  Freer. 

Magdalen,  married  Nov.  9.  1766.  Mattheus  Decker,  Sha- 
wangunk. 

Esther,  died  young. 

3.     Isaac  Bevier,  ]\Iarried  Elizabeth  Bevier 
4TH  generation 

Katrintje,  born  April  28,  1752,  married.  Abraham  Jansen, 
Leurenkill. 

Solomon,  born  ?\Iarch  20.  1754. 

Josiah,  born  Aug.  10,  1756. 

The  two  above  persons  were  killed  by  Indians  in  1779. 

]\Iagdalena,  born  June  24,  1759,  unmarried. 

Eliza,  born  April  17.  1763,  died  young. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  245 

3.     Johannes  Bevier,  Married  Magdalena  LeFevre 

4TH  generation 

Cornelia,  born  Aug.  30,  1750,  died  young. 

Jonathan,  born  Jan.  28,  1752,  unmarried. 

Magdalena,  born  Nov.  25,  1753,  married  1783.  Jan  Hoff- 
man, Shawangunk. 

Nathaniel,  born  April  17,  1756,  married,  Shawangunk. 
Catharine  Dewitt,  daughter  of  Dr.  Andries  Dewitt. 

Jonas,  born  July  26,  1758,  Shawangunk.     Maria  Dewitt. 

Cornelia,  born  Jan.  25,  1761,  married  Nov.  7,  1786.  Noah 
LeFevre,  born  Oct.  29,  1754,  son  of  Abraham. 

3.     Philip  Bevier,  Married  Tryntje  Low 
4TH  generation 

Catharine,  born  April  9,  1749,  unmarried,  New  Hurley. 

Magdalena,  born  Jan.  13,  1751.  married.  Abraham  DuBois, 
born  Feb.  15,  1749,  son  of  Benjamin. 

Petrus,  born  April  28,  1753,  married.  Cornelia  Bevier,  born 
1762,  daughter  of  Johannes. 

Sarah,  born  April  23,  1755. 

Elias,  born  April  25,  1756. 

Sara,  born  Jan.  22,  1758. 

4.     Solomon  Bevier,  Married  Eleanor  Griffin 

5th  generation 

Abraham  Solomon,  born  June  2"],  1774. 
Roelof,  born  Jan.  21,  1776. 


246  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

John,  born  May  8,  1777,  married,  ist  Hannah  Smith  on  Jan. 
22,  1804,  2nd  Margaret  Anable  on  March  22,  1826. 
Margrietje,born  Jan.  15,  1779. 
Caty,  born  Aug.  17,  1780. 
Charity,  born  Jan.  31,  1781. 
Nelly,  born  Nov.  27,  1783. 
Noah,  born  April  25,   1785. 
Maria,  born  Oct.  20,  1787. 

Abraham  A.  Bevier,  Married  Maria  Freer 

5TH  generation 

Isaac,  born  Oct.  29,  1784. 

Roelof  Eltinge,  born  Dec.  28,  1785. 

Abraham,  born  April  13,  1787. 

Thomas,  born  Nov.  29,  1788. 

Thomas,  born  Dec.  29,  1790. 

Zacharias,  born  March  6,  1796. 

All  the  above  were  born  in  Broome  county,  N.  Y. 

3.     Jacobus  Bevier,  Married  Antje  Freer 
4TH  generation 

Samuel,  born  Nov.  9,  1740,  married,  settled  in  Chenango. 
Rachel  Auchmoody. 

Jacob,  born  1742,  died  in  infancy. 

Antje,  born  June  3,  1745,  married.  Benjamin  Hasbrouck, 
born  Jan.  31,  1748,  son  of  Daniel. 

Jacob,  born  Feb.  i,  1747,  married.  New  Paltz.     Maria  York. 

Matthew,  born  June  24,  1748. 

Magdalena,  born  Dec.  23,  1749,  married  Jonas  Freer. 

Simeon,  born  Jan.  28,  1752. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  247 

Elias,  born  March  28,  1753,  married,  New  Paltz  and  Broome 
county,  N.  Y.  Sarah  LeFevre,  born  June  5,  1763,  daughter 
of  Peter  LeFevre. 

Sarah,  born  July  30,  1755,  married  Johannis  Freer. 

Maria,  born  Jan.  24,  1758,  married,  second  wife.  Benjamin 
Hasbrouck,  born  Jan.  31,  1748,  son  of  Daniel. 

Jannetje,  born  Jan.  31,  1761,  married.  John  York,  New  Paltz. 

4.     Samuel  Bevier,  Married  Rachel  Auch moody 

5th  generation 

Maria,  born  Dec.  7,  1774. 
Jacobus,  born  Sept.  8,  1776. 
Antje,  born  Aug.  11,  1778. 
ComeHus,  born  Feb.  6,  1780. 
Josiah,  born  July  12,  1782. 
Lydia,  born  Aug.  25,  1784. 

Christian,  born  Sept.  i,  1786,  married  March  20,  1810. 
Magdalena  Freer. 

All.  the  above  were  born  in  Chenango,  Broome  county. 
Maria,  born  July  3,  1789. 
Eliza,  born  Aug.  27,  1791. 

3.     Jacob  Bevier,  Married  Maria  York 
5th  generation 

Maria,  born  July  2,  1775,  died  in  infancy. 

Maria,  born  Oct.  18,  1776,  married.     Ambrose  Mitchel. 

Jacobus,  born  June  30,  1778,  married.  New  Paltz.  Mary 
Yandel. 

Isaac,  born  March  27,  1780,  married  Dec.  2,  1802,  New  Paltz, 
died  Oct.  3,  1820.     Mary  York,  died  Aug.  8,  1859. 

Catharine,  born  Jan.  23,  1782,  married,  Luther  Sawtell. 


248  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Ezekiel,  born  July  23,  1784,  married  March  22,  1810,  died 
April  22,  1869.     Helen  \'an  Bumble. 

Jonathan,  born  Aug.  17,  1786,  married  March  17,  181 1. 
Judith  Low. 

Jeremiah,  born  May  11,  1789,  married  April  30,  1812, 
Esopus.     Wyntje  Smith. 

Henry,  born  Nov.  25,  1791. 

4.     Elias  Bevier,  Married  Sarah  LeFevre 

5th  generation 

Petrus  LeFevre,  born  1786. 
Elizabeth,  born  Jan.  18,  1788. 
Antje,  born  Dec.  15,  1789. 

Maria,  born  Sept.  27,  1791,  married  Dec.  29,  1814.  Gerrit 
Newkirk. 

Reuben,  born  Dec.  4,  1793. 

Magdalena,  born  March  7,  1796. 

Jennike,  born  July  4,  1798. 

Lydia,  born  Jan.  25,  1801. 

Johan  Yernooy,  born  March  20,  1804. 

Samuel,  born  July  13,  i8c6. 

4.     Nathaniel  Bevier,  Married  Catrina  Dewitt 
5th  generation 

Sarah,  born  Oct.  21, . 

Magdalena,  born  April  28,  1790,  married  March  30,  1812. 
Charles  Elting,  born  March  30,  1792. 

Jane  Vernooy,  born  Feb.  24,  1792,  married.  Abraham  El- 
ting, born  March  30,  1792. 

Elizabeth  Lynot,  born  Oct.  12,  1795,  married  May  28,  1814, 
died  Nov.  25,  1835.     Henry  Deyo,  born  March  30,  1792. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  249 

4.     Jonas  Bevier,  Married  Maria  Dewitt 
5TH  generation 

Magdalena,  born  Sept.  15,  1794. 

Neeltje,  born  Sept.  15,  1796,  married  Feb.  3,  1818.  Silas 
Winfield,  Shawangunk. 

Johannes  Dewitt,  born  Feb.  28,  1798,  died  young. 

Jonathan,  born  July  20,  1800,  married  Dec.  10,  1825,  died 
,  1829.     Hannah  LeFevre. 

Nathaniel,  born  Feb.  25,  1804. 

Stephen,  born  April  19,  1806. 

Lea  Dewitt,  born  Feb.  16,  1808. 

Jane  Newkirk,  born  Dec.  5,  18 10,  married.  Annanius 
Winfield. 

4.     Petrus  Bevier,  Married  Cornelia  Bevier 
5TH  generation 

Catrintje,  born  June  12,  1785. 

Philippus,  born  Oct.  31.  1787. 

Rachel,  born  Jan.  8,  1789. 

Mattheus,  born  Nov.  29,  1790,  Chenango,  N.  Y. 

2.     Louis  Bevier,  Married  Elizabeth  Hasbrouck 
3RD  generation 

Louis,  born  April  29,  171 7,  married  C)ct.  24,  1745,  Marble- 
town,  died  Sept.  29,  1772.  Esther  DuBois,  born  June  20,  1718, 
daughter  of  Philip  DuBois,  died  Oct.  7,  1790. 

3.     Louis  Bevier,  Married  Esther  DuBois 
4TH  generation 

David,  born  Nov.  27,  1746,  married  Jan.  27,  1772,  Marble- 
town,  died  June  17,  1822.  Maria  Hasbrouck,  born  July  7, 
1 75 1,  daughter  of  Abraham  Hasbrouck,  died  Nov.  29,   181 6. 


250  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Elizabeth,  born  June  9,  1749,  married  March  4,  1773.  Joseph 
Hasbrouck,  born  March  4.  1744,  son  of  Abraham,  Guilford, 
died  Feb.  26,  .1808. 

Philip  D.  B.,  born  Dec.  28,  1751,  married  Dec.  29,  1782, 
Rochester,  died  April  18,  1802.  Ann  Dewitt,  born  Oct.  20, 
1862. 

Louis,  born  Aug.  15,  1754,  died  in  infancy. 

Esther,  born  Dec.  23,  1755,  died  in  infancy. 

4.     David  Bevier,  Married  Maria  Hasbrouck 
5th  generation 

Louis,  born  Feb.  13,  1779.  married  Jan.  6,  1807,  Marbletown, 
died  Oct.  25,  1826.  ^laria  Eltinge.  born  March  9,  1785, 
daughter  of  Cornelius  Eltinge. 

Abraham  Bourbon,  born  March  30,  1781,  died  ]\Iay  5,  1782. 

Joseph,  born  Nov.  i,  1703,  married,  Olive,  died  1840. 
Catharine  Hasbrouck,  daughter  of  Jacobus  B.  Hasbrouck. 

Philip,  born  Dec.  11,  1785,  died  Oct.  25,  1791. 

Catharine,  born  Sept.  29,  1789,  married  Jan.  18,  181 5. 
Stephen  Stilwell,  New  Paltz. 

Esther,  born  Aug.  6,  1791,  died  Nov.  20,  1791. 

4.     Philip  D.  B.  Bevier,  Married  Ann  Dewitt 
5th  generation 

Esther,  born  Jan.  8,  1785.  married  Jan.  30,  18 10,  died  Aug. 
30,  1871.  Philip  Hasbrouck,  born  Oct.  22,  1783,  son  of  Joseph 
Hasbrouck,  New  Paltz. 

Hilletje,  born  Feb.  14,  1788.  died  July  25,  1788. 

Rachel,  born   Jan.    18,    1786.   married  April  30,    1809,  died 


HISTORY'  OF  NEW  PALTZ  251 

Feb.  2,  1858.  Thomas  R.  Hardenburgh,  Woodburn,  Sullivan 
county,  died  May  14,  1869. 

Elizabeth,  born  Jan.  18,  1790,  unmarried. 

Maria  Ann;  born  Feb.  2,  1791,  married.  Port  Jarvis.  Rev. 
Cornelius  C.  Eltinge,  born  May  12,  1793,  son  of  Cornelius 
Eltinge. 

Henrietta  Cornelia,  born  Nov.  22,  1792.  James  Hasbrouck, 
son  of  Joseph  Hasbrouck,  New  Paltz. 

Louis  DuBois,  born  June  3,  1794,  married  June,  1839,  Roch- 
ester, died  March  31,  185 1.     Charity  Hoornbeck. 

Hylah,  born  Aug.  3,  1795,  New  Paltz.  Levi  Hasbrouck, 
son  of  Josiah  Hasbrouck,  died  March  7,  1861. 

Sarah  Amelia,  born  March  23,  1797,  married,  died  Oct.  18, 
.1861.  Cornelius  Bruyn,  born  June  16,  1789,  died  April  23, 
1873- 

5.     Louis  Bevier,  Married  Maria  Eltinge 
6th  generation 

Maria,  born  Sept.  21,  1807,  married,  died  Aug.  i,  1878.  Rev. 
Cornelius  L.  Van  Dyck,  born  Jan.  5,  1804,  died  Sept.  13,  1866. 

Blandina,  born  Oct.  i,  1809,  unmarried,  died  June  21,  1889. 

Catharine,  bom  Nov.  11,  1811,  married,  died  March  29,  1868. 
Oliver  G.  DuBois,  son  of  Derick  DuBois. 

Jane,  born  April  26,  1814,  married,  died  March  29,  1883. 
Edgar  Hasbrouck,  born  Feb.  25,  1814,  son  of  L  S.  Hasbrouck, 
died  July  15,  1854. 

Esther  Gumaer,  born  July  6,  181 7,  died  Oct.  15,  1877.  G. 
W.  Basten,  son  of  Geo.  Basten. 

Magdalena  DuBois,  born  Jan.  23,  1820,  died  Feb.,  1897. 
Willet  S.  Northrop,  died  Aug.,  1895. 

Louis,  born  Aug.  21,  1822,  married,  Marbletown.     Catharine 


252  HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z 

Van  Dyck,  born  March  29,  1824,  daughter  of  Lawrence  C.  Van 
Dyck,  died  Jan.  24,  1885. 

Ehzabeth,  born  Dec.   10,   1824,  married.     Peter  Van  Dyck. 

5.     Joseph  Bevier,  Married  Catharine  Hasbrouck 
6th  generation 

Mary  Ann,  married.     Russell  Holmes,  Catskill  and  Olive. 

David,  born  Aug.  10,  18 18,  married,  Olive,  died  Sept.  11, 
1866.  Deborah  Lockwood,  born  June  28,  1820,  died  April  2, 
1887. 

Catharine,  unmarried,  died  1840. 

Eleanor,  married,  second  wife,  Russell  Holmes. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  253 


CHAPTER  XXIII 

The  Deyo  Family  at  New  Paltz 

Two  New  Paltz  patentees,  Christian  and  Pierre,  bore  the 
name  of  Deyo  and  were  father  and  son.  They  were  among 
the  last  of  the  twelve  to  set  foot  on  the  soil  of  the  New  World, 
where  Anthony  Crispell,  Louis  DtiBois  and  his  sons  and  the 
two  LeFevre  brothers  had  already  resided  for  some  years.  In 
1675  Pierre  Deyo  was  still  in  the  Palatinate  as  is  shown  by  his 
certificate  of  good  standing  and  church  membership  from  the 
noted  pastor  Amyot.  This  precious  relic  which  has  come 
straight  down  in  the  Deyo  family  is  now  in  the  possession  of 
Mr.  A.  D.  Brodhead.  It  is  in  the  German  tongue,  is  in  a 
good  state  of  preservation  and  a  translation  is  as  follows  : 

This  is  to  certify  that  Peter  Doio  and  Agatha  Nickel  both 
in  honor  living  in  Curr  Pfaltz,  Mutterstadt,  circuit  of  New- 
stadt,  have  been  united  in  marriage,  the  intent  of  such  marriage 
having  been  announced  three  times  from  the  pulpit,  that  they 
are  members  of  the  Reformed  church  and  as  far  as  we  know 
the  same  are  well  behaved  people.  Mutterstadt,  Curr  Pfaltz, 
21  Jan.,  1675.     Jacob  Amyot,  Pastor. 

Louis  DuBois  was  the  man  who  discovered  New  Paltz  and 
was  the  leader  in  the  settlement,  but  Christian  Deyo  was  called 
"Grandpere"  or  grandfather  in  the  old  documents  and  was,  in 
fact,  the  grandfather  of  most  of  the  children  of  the  youthful 
settlement.  Christian's  son  Pierre  was  a  patentee,  likewise  his 
four  sons-in-law,  John  and  Abraham  Hasbrouck,  Simon  Le- 
Fevre and  Abraham  DuBois.     The  youngest  of  the  patentees. 


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254  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Isaac  DuBois,  married  Maria,  daughter  of  Jean  Hasbrouck 
and  granddaughter  of  Christian  Deyo.  Christian  Deyo  had 
grandchildren  bom  on  the  other  side  of  the  Atlantic  and  one 
of  his  granddaughters,  Esther  Hasbrouck,  who  was  born  in  the 
Palatinate,  married  in  1692,  Peter  Gumaer,  one  of  the  earliest 
settlers  of  Minisink,  so  already  at  that  early  date  New  Paltz 
became  the  cradle  of  the  surrounding  country. 

Before  ending  his  days.  Christian  Deyo  saw  his  family  all 
settled  around  him  at  New  Paltz,  the  three  unmarried  daugh- 
ters who  came  with  him  to  the  new  world  having  become  the 
wives  of  Abraham  Hasbrouck,  Simon  LeFevre  and  Abraham 
DuBois. 

Christian  Deyo  was  quite  certainly  an  old  man  at  the  time  of 
the  settlement  of  New  Paltz  and  lived  only  about  ten  years 
afterwards.  His  will,  which  is  recorded  in  Book  A,  in  the 
County  Clerk's  office  at  Kingston,  is  as  follows : 

In  ye  name  of  God,  amen.  Ye  first  day  of  February,  Anno 
Dom.,  1686-7  (the  fractional  form  showing  the  date  according 
to  the  Old  and  New  Style),  Christian  Doyou,  of  ye  New  Paltz, 
in  ye  County  of  Ulster,  being  sick  in  body  and  of  good  and 
perfect  memory,  thanks  be  to  Almighty  God,  and  calling  to 
remembrance  the  uncertain  state  of  this  transitory  life  and  that 
all  flesh  must  yield  to  death  when  it  shall  please  God  to  call, 
I  do  make,  constitute,  ordain  and  declare  this  my  last  will  and 
testament  in  manner  following,  revoking  and  annulling  by  these 
presents  all  and  every  testament  in  manner  following : 

I  will,  first,  that  all  my  just  debts  be  paid  within  convenient 
time  after  my  decease  by  my  executors,  as  named.  I  give  to 
my  son  Peter  Doyou  ftftyrix  dollars,  that  my  son  was  indebted 
to  me  and  then  to  share  equally  with  all  of  the  rest  of  my 
children  of  my  estate  and  further  I  do  give  to  my  son's  son. 


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HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  255 

Christian  Doyou,  forty  pieces  of  eight  and  a  small  gun  and 
then  I  do  hereby  give  unto  my  five  children  all  ye  rest  of  my 
estate  of  lands,  housings,  chatties  and  movable  goods,  to  them, 
their  heirs,  executors  and  assigns  forever,  as  witness  my  hand 
and  seal,  in  Kingston,  ye  day  and  year  above  written  and  I 
do  desire  that  my  corpse  may  be  buried  at  ye  New  Paltz. 

Ye  mark  of 
Christian  Doyau. 

Signed,  sealed  and  delivered  in  presence  of 

Nicator  Depew, 
William  Du^^Iont. 
Jno.  David, 
Humphrey  Davenol. 

It  will  be  noticed  that  the  will  does  not  mention  any  executor, 
and  perhaps  it  was  owing  to  this  singular  omission  that  the 
estate  was  settled  by  the  heirs  as  appears  by  a  writing  in  French 
of  which  the  following  literal  translation  was  made  by  Frank 
Hasbrouck  of  Poughkeepsie. 

The  twenty- fourth  October  1687  we  the  undersigned  have 
agreed  that  which  follows,  that  is,  that  to  terminate  the  dif- 
ference which  we  might  have  for  the  inheritance  of  our  father 
me  abraham  assebroucg  will  receive  thirty  pieces  of  eight 
[dollars]  from  ]\Ir.  Bekman  upon  that  which  he  owes  to  our 
father  christian  doyeau  and  me  abraham  dubois  will  receive 
also  from  said  bekman  twenty -eight  pieces  of  eight  and  from 
my  brother-in-law  pierre  doyeau  fifty-five  bushels  of  good  win- 
ter wheat  because  of  what  comes  to  me  of  my  part  of  the 
negro  of  our  father  from  the  said  pierre  doyau  and  me  Jean 
assebroucg  should  receive  from  Abraham  assebroucg  ten 
bushels    and    from    abraham    dubois    eleven    bushels    and    wt 


256  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Pierre  tloyau  Jean  assebroucg  and  Simon  le  fevre  will  receive 
from  said  bekman  the  surplus  of  said  thirty  pieces  of  eight 
and  of  said  twenty  pieces  of  eight  which  are  due  [word  oblite- 
rated] the  abraham  assebrouc  and  habraham  dubois  the  sur- 
plus say  I  which  the  said  bekman  owes  to  our  father  christian 
doyau  we  the  under-named  pierre  doyau  ian  assebrouc  and 
Simon  le  febvre  will  share  it  equally  as  also  the  twenty-five 
pieces  of  eight  which  vallerem  dumont  owes  to  our  father  chris- 
tian doyau  and  that  which  is  due  for  the  rest  by  the  other 
debtors  of  our  said  father  except  that  the  said  abraham  asse- 
brouc and  abraham  dubois  should  be  able  to  claim  nothing  in 
the  said  debts  and  it  is  agreed  that  if  there  are  any  complaints 
from  any  of  those  interested  in  the  inheritance  of  our  father 
because  of  what  things  have  been  done  or  what  could  be  done 
each  of  us  five  heirs  will  pay  our  part  of  it  and  if  the  said  re- 
payments arise  from  the  complaint  of  any  one  of  us  that  one 
alone  shall  pay  the  said  penalty. 

pierre  doyo 
Marque  de  Simon  lefebvre 

Abraham  hasbrouck        Jean  assebrouc 
Abraham  duboi 


Pierre  the  Patentee 

There  is  an  old  tradition  that  Pierre  Deyo  the  Patentee,  only 
son  of  Christian  Deyo,  died  while  on  an  expedition  to  find  a 
route  from  New  Paltz  to  the  River,  and  that  long  afterwards  a 
buckle  of  a  truss  that  he  had  worn  was  found  at  the  foot  of  a 
tree  and  that  this  was  the  only  clue  to  his  mysterious  fate. 
This  story  is  told  by  Josiah  R.  Elting  in  his  genealogical  record, 
but  it  is  probable  that  the  Pierre  who  died  on  the  way  to  the 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  257 

River  was  Pierre,  son  of  the  Patentee  of  the  same  name. 
This  Pierre  grew  to  man's  estate  but  left  no  children,  as  Josiah 
R.  Elting  says  concerning  the  Pierre  who  died  looking  for  a 
route  to  the  River. 

Pierre  the  Patentee  left  four  sons,  Christian,  born  in  Pala- 
tinate in  1674;  Abraham,  born  at  Hurley  in  1676;  Pierre, 
baptized  at  New  Paltz  in  1683  and  Henricus  baptized  at  New 
Paltz  in  1690;  also  two  daughters,  Mary  and  Margaret;  the 
first  born  in  1679,  married  Jacob  Clearwater,  settled  at  Bontecoe 
and  had  a  son,  Abraham,  christened  at  New   Paltz  in   1699. 

The  very  oldest  paper  in  the  Theodore  Deyo  collection  is  a 
bond  given  by  Pierre  Deyo  the  Patentee,  in  1681,  and  is  in 
English  as  follows : 

Kingestowne,  26th  April,  1681. 

I  under  written  Peter  dolliaw  of  ye  New  Palse  doe  owne  to 
stand  indebted  unto  mee  Thomas  Dellavoll  ye  sum  of  fifty  two 
Sch.  wheatte,  wch  I  doe  oblige  my  self  to  pay  this  next  year 
now  co'minge  on,  whereunto  I  have  sett  my  hand  to  be  de- 
livered at  ye  water  syde.  Pierre  doyo. 

On  the  back  of  this  paper  is  indorsed, 

Kingstowne,  26th  April  1681  Peter  doliou  of  ye  New  Palse 
his  obligation  for  52  Sch.  wheatte  to  be  paid  this  winter 
coming  on. 

There  is  also  the  further  indorsement. 

Kingstowne  23d  Jan.  168^. 

Reed  of  ye  sed  Peter  Doliaw  ye  contents  of  this  bond,  say 
reed  by  mee  John  Fontaine  for  my  master. 

Thomas  Delavoll. 


258  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 


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HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  259 

Christian,  Son  of  Pierre  the  Patentee 

Christian  settled  without  doubt  in  the  Springtown  neighbor- 
hood, where  his  descendants  have  since  hved  and  where  his 
descendants- James  E.  and  Matthew  Deyo  now  reside.  In  the 
will  of  his  grandfather  Christian  is  specially  remembered  by 
the  bequest  of  a  small  gun.  Christian  was  married  at  New 
Paltz  in  1702  to  Alarytje  DeGraff  (in  French  LeConte).  It 
is  somewhat  singular  that  the  marriage  is  recorded  on  the 
church  books  both  at  New  Paltz  and  Kingston.  On  the  New 
Paltz  church  book  the  quaint  record,  is  as  follows :  "Christian 
Doyo  and  j\lary  LeConte  were  married  in  this  town  of  Paltz 
(Pals,  sometimes  also  called  Le  Palle)." 

Christian's  name  appears  in  the  list  of  taxpayers  in  1712,  in 
the  list  of  soldiers  in  Capt.  Hofifman's  company  in  1716,  in 
the  list  of  those  who  built  the  first  stone  church  in  1720,  in  the 
list  of  freeholders  in  1728  and  in  the  list  of  slaveholders  in 
1755.  His  name  appears  as  deacon  in  the  church  at  New 
Paltz  in  1733  and  in  1765  as  an  elder. 

Christian  left  only  two  sons  of  whom  we  have  any  record, 
Moses  and  Jacobus:  also  a  daughter  Mary,  who  in  1731  mar- 
ried Jeems  Ackmoidi,  a  Scotchman  and  ancestor  of  the  Auch- 
moody  family. 

Christian's  son  Jacobus  moved  to  Kingston  and  we  shall  give 
his  history  hereafter.  Moses  who  was  born  in  1706  married 
in  1728  Clarissa  Stokhard  and  lived  in  a  frame  house,  torn 
down  about  1820  about  a  mile  north  of  Springtown.  Aloses' 
name  appears  in  the  list  of  New  Paltz  soldiers  in  1738.  He 
and  his  wife  Clarissa  Stokhard  joined  the  church  at  New  Paltz 
in  1752.  In  the  tax  list  of  1765  we  find  the  names  of  Moses 
and  his  sons.  Christian,  Jr.,  and  Johannis,  Jr.,  all  residing  in 
the  Springtown  neighborhood.  (On  the  same  list  we  find  the 
names  of  Johannis  and  Christopher  Deyo.  sons  of  Hendricus 


26o  ■    HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

and  cousins  of  Aloses,  as  residing"  in  the  same  locality.)  Chris- 
tian, Jr.,  who  was  born  in  1732,  married  Elidia  Terwilliger  in 
1762.  We  have  no  account  of  his  brother  Johannis.  The  sons 
of  Christian,  Jr.,  and  Elidia  Terwilliger  were  Josiah,  born  in 
1763;  Jonathan  (in  Dutch  Yoane),  born  in  1766;  Moses,  born 
in  1768,  and  Matthew,  born  in  1777.  Jonathan  and  Matthew 
married  and  resided  in  the  neighborhood.  We  have  no  account 
of  Moses,  and  none  of  Josiah  except  that  he  married  Catharine 
Blanshan  and  had  a  daughter  Maria,  who  married  Martinas 
Freer  and  moved  with  him  to  western  New  York.  Romeo 
H.  Freer,  attorney  general  of  the  State  of  West  Virginia,  is 
their  grandson. 

Jonathan  married  Catharine  Fan  of  Bontecoe.  a  sister  of 
Peter  Fan.  From  Jonathan  the  homestead  descended  to  his 
son  Christian,  who  occupied  it  during  his  life  and  was  the  last 
to  bear  the  honored  name  of  the  eldest  of  the  New  Paltz 
Patentees. 

From  Christian  the  farm  descended  to  his  sons,  James  F. 
and  Matthew,  who  now  till  the  land  that  has  been  in  the  family 
so  many  generations. 

Years  ago  the  house  burned  and  the  family  papers  were  lost. 
It  is,  therefore,  not  possible  to  give  as  full  a  history  of  the 
family  as  could  otherwise  be  done. 

Jacobus  Deyo 

We  will  now  go  back  to  Jacobus,  son  of  Christian  and 
brother  of  Moses,  who  left  his  home  at  Springtown  and  went 
to  Kingston.  In  1724  he  married,  at  Kingston,  Janitje  Freer. 
Both  are  set  down  at  that  time  as  residing  at  New  Paltz.  They 
had  several  daughters  and  one  son  Jacobus,  born  in  1732;  also 
a  son  Peter.  Jacobus'  name  does  not  appear  on  the  records  at 
New  Paltz,  but  in  1738  it  is  found  in  the  list  of  foot  soldiers 


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of  Kingston,  from  which  it  is  evident  that  he  moved  to  that 
place.  Afterwards  he  or  his  widow  moved  to  Dutchess  county 
and  in  the  Poughkeepsie  church  records  appears  the  following 
entry:  "Janitje  Freer,  widow  of  Jacobus  Dejoo,  born  at  New 
Paltz,  married  April  22,  1754,  to  Richard  Gryn,  born  at  Os- 
wego." The  son  Jacobus  was  22  years  old  when  his  mother 
married  again.  Jacobus  the  younger  is  thought  to  have  resided 
at  Nine  Partners,  Dutchess  county.  His  son  William,  who 
was  born  about  1775,  lived  at  Ghent,  Columbia  county  and  so 
did  William's  son  Richard.  Jacobus  has  a  number  of  de- 
scendants at  Saratoga  Springs,  Binghamton  and  elsewhere; 
among  others,  Hon.  Israel  T.  Deyo,  of  Binghamton ;  Prof. 
M.  L.  Deyo,  of  Albany,  and  Mr.  E.  J.  Taylor,  of  Saratoga 
Springs. 

Abraham  Deyo,  Son  of  Pierre  the  Patentee 

Abraham,  the  second  son  of  Pierre  the  Patentee,  was  born 
at  Hurley,  October  16,  1676,  as  shown  by  a  slip  from  an  old 
family  record  in  French,  in  an  old  Dutch  Bible  in  the  posses- 
sion of  Mr.  Abm.  Deyo  of  this  village.  Abraham  married  Elsie 
Clearwater  in  1702  and  occupied  the  homestead  in  this  village. 
He  died  in  1725,  leaving  one  son,  Abraham  (2)  and  two  daugh- 
ters, Marytje  and  Wyntje.  Marytje  married  Isaac  Freer  and 
Wyntje  married  Daniel  Hasbrouck.  Abraham  {2)  being  the 
only  son,  kept  the  homestead  in  this  village.  It  is  uncertain 
whether  it  was  he  or  his  father  who  built  the  stone  house  which 
is  still  standing  and  which  has  come  down  from  one  Abraham 
to  another  almost  to  the  present  time,  though  remodeled  a 
generation  ago  and  altogether  transformed  in  1894  by  its 
present  owner  and  occupant,  Mr.  Abm.  Deyo  Brodhead. 

The  name  of  Abraham  Deyo  (2)  appears  in  an  agreement 
with  twenty-seven  other  owners  of  land,  authorizing  the  Duzine 
to  fix  title  to  lands.     In  another  paper  in  the  Patentees'  trunk 


262  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 


THE   OLD   DEYO    HOUSE    IN    THIS    VILLAGE 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  263 

appears  the  statement  that  at  the  time  of  signing  the  agreement 
Abraham  was  under  age  but  acknowledged  the  signature  as 
his  vohmtary  act.  Abraham  married  Ehzabeth  DuBois,  daugh- 
ter of  Isaac,  the  Patentee.  In  a  tax  Hst  of  1765  we  find  his 
name  as  one  of  the  largest  property  owners  in  the  precinct. 
He  left  a  family  of  five  sons — Abraham,  Daniel,  Simeon,  Jona- 
than and  Philip ;  also  one  daughter,  Mary,  who  married  Na- 
thaniel LeFevre  of  Kettleborough.  Four  of  Abraham's  sons 
married  LeFevres.  All  five  of  the  brothers  have  descendants 
living  in  Ulster  county.  It  is  related  by  the  old  people  that 
Abraham  was  a  weakly  man  and  that  his  wife,  Elizabeth,  who 
is  called  in  Dutch  Batche,  was  a  woman  of  masculine  strength 
and  spirit  and  for  this  reason  was  called  "Captain  Batche." 

It  is  stated  that  on  one  occasion  one  of  their  slaves,  having 
been  guilty  of  impudence,  she  struck  him  a  blow  which  broke 
his  arm,  and  there  being  no  doctor  in  the  place  she  sent  him  to 
Kingston  to  have  his  arm  set.  Another  instance  of  Captain 
Batche's  spirit  and  physical  endurance  is  the  fact  that  she 
stood  in  the  mow  and  pitched  hay  the  day  before  her  son 
Daniel  was  born.  From  1751  to  1766  Abraham  represented 
the  family  name  of  Pierre  Deyo  in  the  deliberations  of  the  Du- 
zine.  It  appears  that  Abraham  owned  a  tract  of  land  on  the 
south  side  of  the  Paltz  patent  all  the  way  from  the  top  of  the 
mountain  to  the  Hudson  river.  The  houses  of  three  of  his 
sons,  Philip,  Jonathan  and  Simeon,  were  built  on  this  tract, 
Jonathan  taking  land  on  the  west  side  of  the  Wallkill,  Philip 
living  on  the  Paltz  Plains  and  Simeon  locating  a  short  distance 
south  of  Highland.  Jonathan's  son  Daniel  afterwards  located 
on  this  tract  likewise,  his  house  being  located  on  South  street 
in  the  present  town  of  Lloyd. 

We  have  said  that  Abraham  (2)  left  a  family  of  five  sons. 
These  were  Abraham  (afterwards  called  Capt.),  who  kept  the 


264  HISTORY  OF  XEW  PALTZ 

homestead  in  this  village;  Daniel,  who  located  at  Ireland  Cor- 
ners and  is  the  ancestor  of  the  Gardiner  and  Shawangoink 
Deyos ;  Simeon,  who  located  at  Highland  where  he  has  de- 
scendants living :  Jonathan,  who  lived  on  the  place  now  owned 
b}-  Miss  Smedes  on  the  other  side  of  the  \\'allkill  about  a  mile 
south  of  the  village :  and  Philip,  who  lived  in  the  house  now 
owned  and  occupied  by  Josiah  Sprague  on  the  Paltz  Plains. 

Capt.  Abraham  Deyo 

Capt.  Abraham  Deyo  kept  the  homestead  in  this  \-illag;e. 
He  was  twice  married.  His  first  wife  was  Elizabeth  LeFevre. 
who  left  one  son.  Simon,  who  died  when  he  was  about  forty 
years  of  age.  lea^^ng  no  children.  Capt.  Abraham  married  as 
his  second  wife  ^laria  LeFevre.  widow  of  Isaac  LeFevre  of 
Bontecoe.  She  had  several  children  by  her  previous  marriage 
and  continued  to  reside  witli  them  at  Bontecoe  in  the  old  stone 
house  on  the  banks  of  the  \\'allkill.  As  the  fruit  of  the  mar- 
riage with  Captain  Abraham  Deyo  she  bore  one  son.  and  died 
not  long  afterwards.  The  infant  (who  afterwards  became 
Judge  Abm.  A.  Deyo.  of  ^Nlodena")  was  carried  on  a  pillow, 
after  the  death  of  his  mother,  to  the  residence  of  his  mother's 
brotlier.  Johannes  LeFevre,  at  Kettleborough.  Of  Capt.  Abra- 
ham's record  in  the  Revolutionary  war  we  find  that  he  was 
commissioned  tirst  lieutenant  in  the  second  Xew  Paltz  com- 
pany. Third  Lister  County  regiment,  October  25.  1775.  and 
commissioned  captain  of  tlie  second  company  February  21.  177S. 

Soldiers  ix  Capt.  Abm.  Deyo's  Company 

An  original  document  g:i\nng  the  names  of  a  portion  of  Capt. 
Abraham  Deyo's  company  in  the  Third  Regiment  of  Lister 
County  Militia  in  the  Revolutionary  war  follows : 

\\>  whose  names  are  hereimto  written  do  herebv  acknowl- 


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26:; 


edge  to  have  received  of  Captain  Abraham  Doiau  our  respec- 
tive wages  and  billeting  money  for  one  month's  term  of  duty 
at  the  Frontiers  (part  of  months  of  July  and  August,  1778), 
we  sav  received  respectively  in  full  by  us  this  19th  day  of 
September,  1778. 


Isaac  DuBois. 
Ezekiel  Deyoo. 
Zacharias  Hasbrouck. 
John  Terwilliger,  Jr. 
Josiah  Terwilliger,  Jr. 
Henry  Pontinear. 
Aurt  Terwilliger. 
\\m.  Sergeant. 
Nathaniel  Wallters. 

his 
Benjamin        Sluyter. 

mark 
his 
Frederick        Hyms 

mark 
Johannes  Spratt. 


Abraham  Ean. 

his 
Martynes        Griffin, 
mark 

Jonathan  \'an\\'agenen. 
Robert  Hass. 

his 
John        York. 

mark 
Benjamin  Freer. 
Peter  Bevier. 
Jacob  Krom. 
John  Nees. 
Wm.  Dewitt.  Jr. 
Tacobus  Dewitt. 


Capt.  Abm.  Deyo's  great-great-grandson,  Abm.  D.  Brod- 
head,  has  in  his  possession  his  sword,  epaulets  and  pistols, 
which  have  always  remained  in  the  family.  Capt.  Abraham's 
tombstone,  which  stands  in  the  old  graveyard  in  this  village, 
bears  this  inscription  :  "Capt.  Abraham  Deyo,  who  departed 
this  life  Sept.  12th,  1808,  aged  69  years,  6  months  and  15  days." 
There  is  only  one  other  tombstone  in  the  graveyard  bearing  a 
military  title  in  its  inscription. 

When  the  stone  church  which  preceded  the  present  brick 
edifice  was  built  in  1771,  Capt.  Abm.  Deyo  had  charge  of  the 
work,  and  the  papers  relating  to  its  building,  which  are  in  the 
Dutch  language,  are  in  the  possession  of  J\Ir.  Abm.  D.  Brod- 


266  HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z 

head.  For  a  long  time  after  the  death  of  Capt.  Deyo  the  old 
homestead  in  this  village  was  occupied  by  Richard  Harden- 
bergh,  father  of  Senator  Jacob  Hardenbergh,  who  was  born 
in  this  house.  Judge  Deyo  occupied  the  old  house  for  a  time 
and  afterwards  lived  at  Modena.  He  married  Margaret, 
daughter  of  his  cousin,  Abraham  Deyo  of  Ireland  Corners,  and 
left  two  sons,  John  B.  and  Abm.  A.,  Jr.  Judge  Deyo  was  a 
prominent  citizen,  a  man  of  extensive  means  and  Supervisor 
of  the  town  of  Plattekill  for  a  long  period.  His  son,  Sheriff 
Abm.  A.  Deyo,  moved  into  the  old  stone  house  in  this  village 
when  he  married  and  continued  to  reside  there  until  he  was 
elected  sheriff  and  went  to  Kingston.  Sheriff  Abraham  had 
one  son,  who  was  also  called  Abraham  and  was  the  sixth  of 
that  name  in  a  direct  line.  He  died  at  the  age  of  about  four- 
teen, in  Kingston,  while  his  father  was  sheriff'  a  few  months 
after  the  family  moved  from  this  village  in  1858. 

Daniel  Deyo 

Daniel,  the  second  son  of  Abm.  (2).  married  Margaret  Le- 
Fevre ;  after  her  death  he  married  Catharine  Dewitt,  of  Wa- 
warsing,  who  left  no  children.  He  located  at  Ireland  Corners, 
where  his  father  purchased  for  him,  in  1763,  a  tract  of  500 
acres,  being  a  part  of  the  Garland  Patent.  The  deed  for  this 
tract  is  in  possession  of  Andrew  L.  F.  Deyo. 

According  to  the  tradition  in  the  Deyo  famil}-,  this  land  at 
the  time  of  the  purchase  was  occupied  by  J.  G.  Ronk,  who  had 
built  a  house  and  set  out  an  orchard  on  the  place.  Not  having 
a  good  title,  he  gave  up  the  property  and  moved  to  the  New 
Hurley  neighborhood  to  a  tract  which  he  had  purchased  a 
dozen  years  before  and  where  he  afterwards  resided'.  During 
the  Revolutionary  war  Daniel  did  some  service  as  a  teamster, 
going  on  one  occasion  with  a  load  of  arms  to  the  patriot  army 
which  was  stationed  near  Philadelphia. 


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HOUSE   OF    DANIEL   DEYO    NEAR    IRELAND    CORNERS. 


268  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Daniel  Deyo's  sister,  who  had  married  Nathaniel  LeFevre, 
occupied  the  adjoining  farm  on  the  north,  known  in  modern 
times  as  the  "Sing"  LeFevre  place.  Daniel  left  a  family  of 
three  sons,  Abm.,  Nathaniel  and  Jonathan ;  also  two  daugh- 
ters, Elizabeth,  who  married  Moses  DeWitt  and  moved  to 
Chemung  county,  and  Mary,  who  married  Simon  DuBois  of 
Wallkill.  Daniel  divided  his  land  among  his  three  sons,  each 
taking  about  an  equal  part.  Abraham,  the  oldest  son,  mar- 
ried Ann  Brodhead,  sister  of  Congressman  John  C.  Brodhead. 
Abraham  lived  in  a  frame  house  still  standing  on  what  is  now 
known  as  the  Daniel  Bevier  place.  He  left  one  son,  Daniel  A., 
and  two  daughters,  one  of  whom  rriarried  Judge  Abraham  Deyo 
of  Modena,  and  the  other  married  Andrew  Bevier  and  left  a 
family  of  four  sons — Daniel,  Richard,  A.  Deyo  and  Dr.  Du- 
Bois. Daniel  A.  Deyo  lived  for  a  time  on  his  father's  home- 
stead and  then  sold  it  to  Daniel  Bevier  and  moved  to  Chicago, 
where  he  purchased  the  paw  paw  grove,  near  the  city.  This 
he  afterwards  sold  and  returning  to  the  east  purchased  a  farm 
near  Balmville,  three  miles  north  of  Newburgh.  This  prop- 
erty at  Balmville  increased  greatly  in  value  with  the  growth 
of  Newburgh,  as  it  commanded  a  fine  view  of  the  river.  Part 
of  it  was  sold  after  his  death  for  a  large  sum.  Daniel  A.  Deyo 
was  three  times  married.  His  first  wife,  Elizabeth  Elting, 
left  but  one  son,  Abm.  D.,  of  Tuthill ;  his  second  wife,  Nelly 
LeFevre,  left  two  sons,  Johannes  and  Brodhead,  and  one  daugh- 
ter, Cornelia;  his  third  wife,  Arabella  Hallock,  left  a  son, 
Thomas  J.  of  Wallkill,  and  two  daughters. 

Jonathan  Deyo,  son  of  Daniel,  the  first  settler  at  Ireland 
Corners,  married  Mary,  daughter  of  John  Charles  Harden- 
bergh  of  Rosendale.  He  occupied  all  his  days  the  old  stone 
house  of  his  father,  which  is  still  standing.  He  left  a  family 
of  five  sons,  John  H.,  Dr.  Nathaniel,  Barzillai  and  Dr.  Abra- 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  2bq 

ham,  and  two  daughters,  Jane  H.  and  ]\Iary.  The  latter  mar- 
ried Oscar  Noyes.  The  son,  Nathaniel,  located  at  Newburgh, 
where  he  practiced  medicine  and  there  his  son  John  is  still 
engaged  in  the  same  profession.  Another  son,  Robert  E.,  is 
a  prominent  lawyer  in  Xew  York  City,  his  office  being  at  115 
Broadway. 

Nathaniel,  the  third  son  of  Daniel  Deyo,  owned  and  occupied 
the  house  now  the  residence  of  his  grandson,  Andrew  L.  F. 
By  his  first  wife,  Leah  DeWitt,  he  had  three  sons,  Daniel, 
Jonathan  N.  and  John.  By  his  second  wife,  Catharine  Har- 
denburgh  of  Marbletown,  he  had  one  daughter,  who  married 
Thomas  K.  Jessup  of  Newburgh.  The  elder  son,  Daniel,  be- 
came a  doctor,  but  died  a  young  man  and  left  one  son,  Alfred. 
Jonathan  N.  kept  his  father's  homestead,  which  he  occupied 
all  his  days.     John  located  in  Shawangunk. 

Simeon  Deyo 

Simeon,  the  third  son  of  Abraham  (2),  was  baptized  Feb- 
ruary 13.  1743.  He  married  Antje  Low  and  located  about  a 
mile  south  of  the  present  village  of  Highland,  opposite  the  old 
burying  ground  and  just  south  of  the  mill  pond.  Here  about 
1780  he  built  a  stone  house  as  his  residence  and  had  a  farm 
of  about  250  acres.  Simeon  left  a  family  of  three  sons,  Jacob, 
Abraham  and  Joseph.  The  first  named,  who  was  born  in  1775, 
married  Ruth  Smith  and  lived  about  half  a  mile  south  of  the 
present  village  of  Highland  in  a  house  now  occupied  by  Mrs. 
Lake.  This  house  when  built  was  considered  the  finest  in  that 
section  of  country.  Jacob  was  at  one  time  colonel  of  militia 
and  was  usually  called  colonel.  His  children  were  Anna, 
Nathan,  Mary  Ann,  Sarah,  Simeon,  Eleanor,  Anning  S.,  Hiram 
C.  and  Oliver  Hazard  Perry.  The  last  named  became  a  min- 
ister, living  for  many  years  at  Asbury  Park,  N.  J.     From  him 


2-0  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

we  have  our  information  concerning-  this  branch  of  the  family. 
Simeon's  son  Abraham  became  a  doctor  and  married  Catharine 
DuBois.  He  died  not  long  after  marriage,  leaving  one  daugh- 
ter, Electa,  who  married  Philip  Elting  of  Highland.  Simeon's 
son  Joseph  married  Julia  Kelsey.  They  left  a  large  family  of 
sons  and  daughters  as  follows :  Reuben,  Simeon,  Abraham, 
Monroe,  Delilah,  Eleanor  and  Rowena.     All  of  these  married. 

Jonathan  Devo 

Jonathan  Deyo,  fourth  son  of  Abraham  (2)  married  Mary, 
daughter  of  Daniel  LeFevre  of  llontecoe.  Jonathan  lived  a 
short  time  on  the  Paltz  Plains.  r)Ut  the  lands  of  his  father 
being  divided  by  lot,  Jonathan's  share  fell  on  the  west  side  of 
the  Wallkill,  and  he  took  the  farm  now  owned  by  Miss  Smedes. 
His  house  was  of  frame  and  nuist  have  been  one  of  the  first  of 
that  material  built  at  New  Paltz.  This  house  was  torn  down 
in  1850.  Jonathan  left  a  family  of  three  sons,  Abraham  J., 
Daniel  L.  and  Peter,  and  three  daughters,  Elizabeth,  who  mar- 
ried Henry  DuBois ;  Catharine,  who  married  Wilhelmus  Du- 
Bois, and  Cornelia,  who  married  Josiah  Hasbrouck  of  Marble- 
town.  Jonathan's  son,  Abraham  J.,  married  Maria  Deyo  and 
moved  to  what  is  now  the  Cold  Spring  Corners  neighborhood. 
He  lived  for  a  while  in  a  log  house,  and  about  18 12  built  the 
stone  house  in  which  he  afterwards  resided  and  which  was 
probably  the  last  stone  house  built  in  this  town. 

The  country  about  Cold  Spring  Corners  or  Grahow,  as  it 
was  formerly  called,  was  almost  an  unbroken  wilderness  then, 
but  there  were  no  Indians  and  few  wild  animals,  though  at  a 
later  date  Mr.  Andries  Deyo  informs  us  he  has  seen  deer  pas- 
turing on  the  winter  grain.  The  stone  for  the  house  came 
from  the  Bear  Ady  and  the  mortar  used  in  laying  up  the  wall 
came  from  a  field  near  b}'.     The  Pang  Yang  settlement  was 


HISTORT  OF  NEW  PALTZ  271 

only  about  a  mile  to  the  east,  but  it  was  not  until  a  later  period, 
when  others  moved  in,  that  the  Pang  Yang  people  acquired 
a  reputation  for  thieving.  At  that  time  the  residents  there 
were  poor  but  honest  people  living  in  thatched  log  houses. 

Daniel  L.,  the  second  son  of  Jonathan  Deyo.  married  Jane 
LeFevre.  The}'  lived  on  South  street,  which  was  then  called 
Quaker  street  in  the  present  town  of  Lloyd,  where  their  sons, 
Jonathan  and  John  L.  afterwards  lived. 

Peter,  the  youngest  son  of  Jonathan  Deyo,  married  Cornelia 
Elting.  Peter  kept  his  father's  homestead,  now  the  Miss 
Smedes'  place.  He  afterwards  bought  of  Isaiah  Hasbrouck, 
father  of  Daniel  I.  Hasbrouck,  the  farm  adjoining  on  the  north, 
where  his  son  Ira  afterwards  lived  and  his  grandson  Perry 
afterwards  resided. 

Philip  Deyo 

Philip  Deyo,  the  youngest  of  the  five  brothers,  sons  of  Abra- 
ham (2),  married  Gertrude  LeFevre  of  Kettleborough  and 
lived  on  the  Paltz  Plains  where  is  now  the  Josiah  Sprague  farm. 
The  house,  part  frame  and  part  stone,  and  still  standing,  was 
built  in  the  time  of  the  Revolutionary  war  and  it  is  related  that 
nails  were  so  exceedingly  difficult  to  obtain  that  a  visit  was 
made  to  Kingston  after  that  place  was  burned  by  the  British 
and  from  the  ruins  nails  were  obtained  for  the  new  house. 
Philip  Deyo  was  a  man  of  great  intelligence  and  we  have  this 
saying  of  Josiah  DuBois,  "Philip  Deyo  knew  enough  to  be 
President  of  the  United  States."  Philip  had  a  family  of  seven 
daughters  and  only  one  son,  Andries,  who  was  the  youngest 
of  the  family.  He  married  Catharine  Elting  and  kept  the 
homestead.  Six  of  the  daughters  married  as  follows :  Eliza- 
beth married  Simon  LeFevre,  Maria  married  Abraham  J.  Deyo, 
Elsie  married  Andries  Bruvn,  Catharine  married  Andries  El- 


272  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 


THE    HOUSE    OF    HENDRICUS    DEYO    AT    BONTECOE. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  273 

ting,  Sarah  married  Solomon  LeFevre,  Cornelia  married  Jacob 
G.  DuBois. 

The  Family  of  Hendricus  Deyo^  Son  of  Pierre, 
THE  Patentee 

Hendricus  Deyo,  youngest  son  of  Pierre,  the  Patentee,  was 
baptized  at  Kingston,  October  12,  1690.  He  married  at  Kings- 
ton, December  31,  171 5,  Margaret  Von  Bummel,  who  was  bap- 
tized at  Kingston  in  1693.  They  located  at  Bontecoe,  about 
four  miles  north  of  this  village.  The  house,  probably  built 
by  Hendricus,  but  perhaps  by  his  son  Benjamin,  is  still  stand- 
ing on  the  east  bank  of  the  Wallkill  and  is,  we  think,  the  most 
antique  and  interesting  in  appearance  of  all  the  old  houses  of 
that  period.  The  homestead  was  bounded  by  the  Freers  on 
the  north,  and  by  the  LeFevres  on  the  south,  and  came  down 
in  the  Deyo  family  almost  to  the  present  day,  the  last  owner 
of  the  Deyo  name  being  Ezekiel  I.  Deyo,  son  of  Abm.  W.  Deyo. 

In  the  old  graveyard  in  this  village  stands  an  ancient  tomb- 
stone which  is  quite  certainly  that  of  Margaret  Van  Bummel, 
wife  of  Hendricus  Deyo,  son  of  Pierre,  the  Patentee.  The  in- 
scription on  this  tombstone  has  proved  quite  as  puzzling  as  the 
hieroglyphics  of  Egypt,  but  the  key,  when  found,  unlocks  the 
m\sterious  inscription  quite  as  satisfactory  as  does  Champol- 
lion's  key  the  ancient  hieroglyphics. 

The  inscription  is  as  follows : 

Anno 

1747 
-de  21  FI 

is  M.  V.  B.  M. 

E.  D.  H.  O.  S. 

H.  D.  I. 


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HISTORY  OF  XEW  PALTZ 


TOMBSTONE  OF  MARGARET  VAN  BUMMEL,  WIFE  OF  HENURICIS    DEYO 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  275 

It  must  be  remembered  that  the  New  Paltz  people  in  1747 
used  the  Dutch  language.     The  first  three  lines  are  the  date, 
the  fourth  line  the  initials  of  the  person  buried.     The  letters  of 
the  fifth   line   are   the   initials   of   the  Dutch   words   "In  Den 
Heercn   Onfslapen'— "In  the  Lord  Asleep."      The  final   line 
gives   the   initials   of  the   husband's   name,    Hendricus   Deloo. 
We  have  seen  the  name  Deyo  written  Deloo.     This  explana- 
tion of  the  inscription  is  corroborated  by  the  following  extract 
from  Rev.  Dr.  Anson  DuBois'  history  of  the  DuBois  family  at 
Catskill,  as  found  on  page  62,  as  follows:    "Cornelius    (Du- 
Bois')   record  of  his  own  wife's  death   is  peculiarly  devout: 
it  is  thus  in  Dutch,  "Ano  1778,  Mcrt  27,  is  myne  vrow  in  Den 
Hccrcn  Ontslapen."      We  would  read  it  in  English,  "March 
27,  1778,  Now  is  my  wife  sleeping  in  the  Lord." 

In  the  above  record,  as  given  by  Rev.  Dr.  Anson  DuBois, 
it  will  be  noted  that  the  same  order  is  observed  as  on  the  tomb- 
stone:  first  the  date,  then  the  statement  as  to  who  is  here 
buried,  then  the  pious  epitaph. 

Learned  persons  have  puzzled  over  this  inscription.  Much 
credit  for  its  satisfactory  solution  is  due  to  Mrs.  Ralph  LeFevre. 
Hendricus  Deyo  (i)  left  a  large  family  of  children  as  fol- 
lows: Debora,  Peter,  Jr.,  Isaac,  Benjamin,  Johannes,  Chris- 
toffel,  Hagetea,  Hendricus,  Sara  and  David.  Debora  married 
Peter  Ostrander  and  settled  with  him  near  New  Hurley.  Peter, 
Jr.,  born  in  1718,  married  Elizabeth  Helm  in  1745  and  settled 
near  Tuthill,  where  we  find  him  a  large  taxpayer  in  1765. 
Isaac,  born  in  1723,  married  Agatha  Freer.  We  know  nothing 
further  concerning  him  except  that  a  son,  David,  was  baptized 
>n  1765.  Christoffel,  born  in  1728,  married  Debora  Van  Vliet 
and  located  at  Springtown.  Their  son  David,  baptized  in  1758 
married  Rachel  Ean.  Rev.  Paul  T.  Deyo  is  their  grandson! 
Johannes,  born  in  1726,  married  Sarah  Van  Wagenen  in  1756 


276  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

and  located  at  Springtown.  Hendricus  (2),  born  in  1731,  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Beem  at  Kingston  October  13,  1753. 

We  have  no  connected  genealogy  of  the  family  of  Hendricus 
(i)  except  of  the  three  sons:  Peter,  Jr.,  Benjamin  (who  kept 
the  homestead  at  Bontecoe)  and  Hendricus  (2).  We  will  take 
up  first  the  line  of  Peter,  Jr.  But  we  must  say  that  our  infor- 
mation concerning  him  is  not  complete. 

In  a  tax  list  of  1765  we  find  Peter,  Jr.,  located  at  what  is 
now  Tuthill  and  one  of  the  original  grants  of  land  in  the  present 
town  of  Shawangunk  was  to  Peter  Deyo  and  son.  We  have 
not  learned  as  yet  who  were  Peter,  Jr.'s  children,  but  Lucas 
Deyo,  who  lived  in  1820  in  the  house  of  Philip  LeFevre  in  the 
Kettleboro  neighborhood,  was  a  son.  Lucas'  wife  was  a  Van 
Kleeck  of  Poughkeepsie.  They  had  a  large  family  of  boys  as 
follows:  Ezekiel,  Peter,  Evert,  Francis  and  Tjerck.  Lucas 
Deyo  had  a  brother,  who  was  the  father  of  the  late  Jacob  Deyo 
of  Tuthill.     We  do  not  know  his  name. 

Hendricus  (2),  who  married  Elizabeth  Beem,  is  buried  in 
the  old  Presbyterian  graveyard  at  Highland.  We  do  not  know 
where  he  lived.  He  had  only  two  children  who  married,  the 
rest  probably  dying  when  young.  Those  two  were  Hendricus 
(3),  who  was  baptized  at  Shawangunk  in  1754,  and  Joseph, 
who  was  baptized  at  Kingston  in  1765.  Of  Joseph  we  have  no 
further  account.  Hendricus  (2)  must  have  ended  his  days 
with  his  son,  Hendricus  (3),  at  the  river,  as  a  tombstone  in 
the  old  Presbyterian  graveyard  bears  the  inscription :  "Henry 
Deyo  died  Dec.  12,  1805,  M  74."  This  is  the  oldest  grave 
marked  by  a  tombstone  having  a  legible  inscription  and  this 
graveyard  is  the  oldest  in  the  town  of  Lloyd. 

Hendricus  (3)  (in  English  Henry)  located  in  the  present 
town  of  Lloyd.  He  married  Phebe  Woolsey  and  long  carried 
on  the  milling  business  at  the  Shadagee.     His  residence,  how- 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  277 

ever,  was  not  at  the  Shadagee,  but  about  two  miles  south  of 
the  present  village  of  Highland  in  a  stone  house  still  standing 
on  the  west  side  of  the  road  leading  from  Highland  to  Modena, 
a  short  distance  south  of  the  old  Presbyterian  graveyard. 
Henry  (3)  left  a  family  of  six  sons  and  two  daughters,  all  of 
whom  married  and  left  families.  The  sons  were  Joseph  H., 
Henry,  John  W.,  Thomas,  Elijah  and  Harvey.  The  daugh- 
ters were  named  Clorine  and  Elizabeth.  The  former  married 
Elidia  Watkins. 

Hendricus'  (3)  large  landed  estate  was  divided  among  his 
sons. 

His  sons,  Joseph  and  Henry,  occupied  adjoining  farms,  on 
what  is  now  the  Highland  and  Modena  turnpike.  Joseph  mar- 
ried Jane  Deyo,  daughter  of  Wm.  Deyo  of  Bontecoe.  Joseph's 
property  passed  to  his  son,  Wm.  H.  Deyo,  who  rebuilt  and 
greatly  enlarged  the  house.  The  place  is  now  occupied  by 
Geo.  C.  Brown,  who  married  Wm.  H.  Deyo's  daughter.  Jos. 
Deyo's  other  sons  were  Noah  and  George,  who  settled  in  Illi- 
nois, and  Ennis,  who  settled  near  Clintondale. 

Henry  Deyo's  farm  adjoined  that  of  his  brother  Joseph  on 
the  north.  Henry  married  Elizabeth  L.  Bevier.  They  had  a 
large  family  of  ten  children,  as  follows :  Caroline,  Luther, 
Phebe,  Alvah,  Elmira,  Delia  Ann,  Emily,  Julia,  Theora,  Eliza- 
beth. All  of  them  married.  Caroline  married  Dewitt  Ran- 
som and  after  his  death  Alden  J.  Pratt ;  Luther  married  Fran- 
ces E.  Pratt ;  Phebe  married  Abm.  Deyo ;  Alvah  married  Lydia 
Chambers ;  Elmira  married  Philip  D.  LeFevre ;  Julia  married 
Philip  LeRoy;  Delia  Ann  married  Andrew  LeFevre;  Emily 
married  Josiah  Elting ;   Elizabeth  married  Abm.  E.  Hasbrouck. 

Hendricus'  son,  John  W.,  married  Annie  Beesmer.  He 
owned  what  has  been  of  late  years  George  W.  Pratt's  mill  and 
here  he  carried  on  the  milling  business  for  a  long,  long  time. 


278  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

His  children  were  Phebe  Ann,  Henry,  Woolsey,  Emeretta  and 

Livingston.     Phebe  Ann  married  Goodrich;    Emeretta 

married  Barton  Weed :   Livingston  married Saxton. 

Thomas,  son  of  Hendricus,  married Elting,  daughter 

of  John  Ehing.  He  was  never  engaged  in  farming.  For  a 
time  he  attended  to  his  father's  mill  at  Shadegee.  At  one  time 
he  was  engaged  in  the  brick  manufacturing  business  and  like- 
wise had  a  store  at  Pell's  dock  in  partnership,  we  believe,  with 
his  brother-in-law,  Daniel  Woolsey.  By  his  first  wife  Thomas 
Deyo  had  one  son,  Maurice  W.,  from  whom  we  have  a  great 
portion  of  the  information  contained  in  this  sketch.  By  his 
second  wife,  Deborah  Brown,  Thomas  Deyo  had  several  chil- 
dren, as  follows :  Samuel,  Margaret,  Mary  Ann,  George  and 
Heckaliah, 

Elijah,  son  of  Hendricus  (3),  was  born  at  Highland  in  1798 
and  died  in  1831.  He  lived,  we  believe,  in  the  town  of  Platte- 
kill.  Elijah  married  Patty  Thomas.  Their  children  were 
Henry,  who  lived  at  Clintondale ;  Theron,  who  also  lived  at 
Clintondale  and  afterwards  at  Highland,  and  Philip  T.,  who 
has  lived  for  nearly  thirty  years  at  Binghamton  and  from  whom 
we  have  this  information  concerning  his  family. 

Harvey,  the  last  son  of  Hendricus,  married  Ellen  Tooker  and 
had  three  children,  Charles,  Anna  and  Maria. 

Going  back  now  to  the  homestead  at  Bontecoe,  Benjamin,  son 
of  Hendricus  (i),  kept  the  homestead.  He  left  four  sons, 
William,  Abram,  Benjamin  and  John  (called  Hons  in  Dutch). 

William  lived  in  what  has  been  of  late  years  the  Oscar 
Tschirkey  place.  He  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Roelif  J, 
Elting  of  this  village,  and  left  a  large  family  of  sons  and 
daughters,  as  follows :  William  W.,  Abm.  W.,  Cornelius, 
Ezekiel,  Roelif,  Maria,  Jane,  Sarah,  Bridget,  Catharine  and 
Rebecca.     All  of  these  married. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  279 

Benjamin  lived  near  Springtown.  He  was  the  father  of 
DeWitt  Deyo  of  Springtown,  and  Tjerck  and  David  of  Mid- 
dletown.  Abram  lived  on  what  is  now  the  Evert  Schoonmaker 
place.  He  married  his  cousin,  a  Freer,  and  had  but  one  child, 
who  left  no  children.  John  lived  part  of  the  time  on  the  Abm. 
W.  Deyo  place ;  part  of  the  time  on  the  Evert  Schoonmaker 
place  and  also  in  the  stone  house  east  of  the  Bontecoe  school- 
house.  His  wife  was  Catrina  Kritsinger.  His  sons  were 
Stephen,  Benjamin  I.,  John,  Levi,  Moses  and  Christian  of 
Rochester. 


28o  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 


CHAPTER  XXIV 

The  DuBois  Family  at  New  Paltz 

Louis  DuBois,  the  leader  of  the  Huguenot  settlers  at  New 
Paltz,  was  born  at  Wicres,  near  Lille,  in  the  province  of  Artois 
(in  French  Flanders),  October  27,  1626.  The  farm  of  his 
father  Cretien  is  still  pointed  out. 

Louis  moved  to  Manheim,  on  the  Rhine,  the  capital  of  the 
Palatinate  or  Paltz,  a  little  principality,  now  incorporated  in 
Baden,  and  there  he  married  Catharine  Blanshan,  the  daughter 
of  Matthew  Blanshan,  a  burgher  residing  there. 

To  Louis  DuBois  and  his  wife  there  were  born  a  numerous 
family  of  children,  as  follows :  Abraham,  Isaac,  Jacob,  Sarah, 
David,  Solomon,  Louis,  Matthew.  Other  children  died  before 
reaching  mature  years.  Of  these  children  Abraham  and  Isaac 
were  born  at  Manheim  and  the  rest  in  Ulster  county.  Man- 
heim was  at  that  time  a  refuge  for  the  Protestants  from  the 
neighboring  parts  of  France,  and  Baird  in  his  "Huguenot 
Emigration,"  says  that  the  LeFevres,  Hasbroucks,  Crispells, 
etc.,  were  associated  with  Louis  DuBois  at  Manheim.  The 
exact  date  of  the  emigration  to  America  and  the  name  of  the 
ship  are  not  known,  but  the  time  was  certainly  between  1658 
and  1661.  At  the  latter  date  he  was  residing  at  Hurley,  and 
his  third  son,  Jacob,  was  presented  for  baptism  at  the  church 
at  Kingston,  as  still  shown  by  the  church  register,  that  being 
one  of  the  earliest  entries.  In  1663,  June  10,  Hurley  and  part 
of  Kingston  were  burned  by  the  Indians,  and  the  wife  of  Louis 
DuBois,  with  three  children,  were  among  those  carried  away 
captive.     Three  months  afterwards  an  expedition  under  Cap- 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  281 

tain  Crieger  recovered  the  captives,  surprising  the  Indians  at 
their  fort,  near  the  Hogabergh,  in  Shawangunk.  According 
to  the  tradition  the  discovery  of  the  lowlands  along  the  Wallkill 
during  this  expedition  led  to  the  settlement  at  New  Paltz  in 
1678. 

Louis  DuBois  was  the  first  elder  of  the  church  here,  and 
the  first  entry  in  the  church  register  commencing  in  1683,  still 
in  existence,  is  in  his  hand  writing.  In  1686  Louis  DuBois 
returned  from  New  Paltz  to  Kingston,  where  he  bought  a 
house  and  resided  ten  years,  until  his  death  in  1696.  This 
house  stood  at  the  north-west  corner  of  John  street  and  Clinton 
avenue,  near  the  late  residence  of  F.  L.  Westbrook. 

About  two  years  before  Louis  DuBois  moved  from  Kings- 
ton to  New  Paltz  his  brother  Jacques  came  to  America.  He 
died  soon  after,  in  1676.  His  descendants  located  in  Dutchess 
county. 

Not  long  before  his  death  Louis  deeded  to  his  youngest 
son,  Matthew,  a  certain  tract  of  land  in  Kingston.  The  orig- 
inal document  is  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  Julius  Schoonmaker 
and  is  as  follows :  1 

To  all  Christian  people  To  whom  this  Shall  or  May  Come 
Lowies  dubois  of  Kingston  in  ye  County  of  ulster  and 
Catharina  his  wife  Sendeth  greeting. 

Whereas  the  said  Lowies  duboys  and  Catharine  his  Wife  for 
Divers  good  Causes  and  Considerations  them  thereunto  moving 
but  more  &  Especially  for  and  Inconsideration  of  a  Certaine 
Summe  or  quantity  of  One  thousand  and  five  hundred  Schuyp- 
ples  of  Wheat  to  them  in  hand  payd  before  the  Ensealing 
and  Delivery  of  these  presents  by  Matthew  duboys  Jongest 
Sunn  of  them  the  said  Lowies  duboys  &  Catharina  his  Wife 
have  Bargained,  Sold,  alienated  enfeofed,  assigned  and  Sett- 


282  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

over,  and  by  these  presents  doe  Bargain,  Sell,  alienate  Enfeofe 
assign  and  Settover  unto  the  Said  Matthew  Duboys  the  Right 
halfe  of  ye  Certaine  tract  or  parcell  of  Land  Situate,  Lying  & 
being  uppon  hooly  peece  betwixt  the  Land  of  Hyman  &  Jan  Roos 
and  the  Land  of  Lammert  huylandss  and  now  in  the  possession 
of  Jacob  duboys.  Likewise  a  house,  barne  &  lot  of  ground  in 
ye  towne  of  Kingstowne  betwixt  the  housing  &  ground  of  Coll. 
Henricus  Beekman  &  Saloman  Duboys.  Likewise  a  small 
piece  of  pasture  Land  to  ye  east  side  of  the  towne  of  Kings- 
towne afous'd  betwizt  ye  ground  of  sd  Henricus  Beekman  and 
Wessel  Ten  Broeck  ;  To  have  and  to  hold  the  said  tract  or  Parcel 
of  Land,  house  and  lot  of  ground  and  pasture  Land  unto  the 
Said  Matthew  Duboys  his  heirs  and  assigns  and  to  the  Only 
proper  use  benefit  and  behoofs  of  him  the  Said  Matthew  Du- 
boys his  heirs  and  assigns  for  ever,  and  the  Said  Matthew 
Duboys  to  Enter  in  peaceable  possession  of  ye  Said  Land  When 
hee  shall  Come  to  ye  age  of  one  &  twenty  years,  and  the  house, 
pasture  Land,  &c.,  O — after  the  Decease  of  them  the  Said 
Lowies  Duboys  and  Catharina  his  Wife  have  hereunto  Sett 
their  hands  and  Affixed  their  seals. 

In  Kingstowne  this  22d  day  of  February,  1695-6. 

Lowies  du  boys,  (seal) 
Catharina  duboys.  (seal) 

Signed,  Sealed  and  Delivered  in  the  presence  of 

Jan  Burhans, 
Marttys  Slecht, 
W.  D.  Myer. 

In  the  presence  of  Me 

Jacob  Rutsen. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  283 

The  last  will  of  Louis  DuBois,  as  recorded  in  the  Surrogate's 
office  of  the  County  of  New  York,  is  in  Dutch,  dated  March 
26,  1694,  and  was  proved  July  13,  1697.  A  previous  will  is 
as  follows,  made  at  the  time  of  his  removal  from  New  Paltz 
to  Kingston : 

In  the  name  of  God,  Amen,  the  one  and  thirtieth  day  of 
March,  Anno  Domini,  1686,  I,  Louis  Du  bois,  of  the  New  Paltz 
in  the  County  of  L'lster,  being  both  sound  in  body  and  of  good 
and  perfect  memory,  thanks  be  to  the  Almighty,  and  calling 
to  remembrance  the  uncertain  Estate  of  this  transitory  life, 
and  that  all  flesh  must  yield  unto  death  whom  it  shall  please 
God  to  call ;  doe  make,  constitute,  ordain  and  declare  this  my 
last  will  and  testament,  in  manner  following :  Revoking  and 
annuling,  by  these  presents,  all  and  every  testament  and  testa- 
ments, \\\\\  and  wills,  hertofore  by  me  made  and  declared  either 
by  word  or  writing,  and  this  to  be  my  last  will  and  testament. 
Imprims  :  I  will  that  all  my  just  debts  shall  be  paid  within  a 
convenient  time  after  my  decease,  and  what  there  shall  be 
found  afterwards  belonging  to  my  Estate,  shall  be  equally 
dealt  among  my  children  !  but  my  two  oldest  sons  desiring  to 
have  each  of  them  a  part  of  the  land  of  the  New  Paltz.  more 
than  the  other  sons  by  reason  their  names  are  upon  the  Patent, 
but  they  will  be  content  to  deale  equally  with  my  other  children, 
whether  in  land,  houses,  or  any  other  sort  of  goods  whatso- 
ever belonging  to  my  said  Estate,  as  well  as  the  lands  of  the 
Paltz  that  I  have  bought  for  me  and  after  my  death  and  their 
mother's  decease,  shall  be  dealt  equally  amongst  them,  (to 
wit.)  Three  parts  lying  and  being  situated  in  the  New  Paltz, 
but  if  they  (to  wit)  my  two  eldest  sons  \\\\\  each  of  them  have 
a  part  of  the  land  lying  in  the  New  Paltz,  they  may  have  it 
after  myn  and  their  mother's  death,  with  condition  they  shall 
pay  for  the  said  land  with  all  the  interest  of  the  same,  unto  the 


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other  of  my  children,  and  shall  not  inherit  any  of  the  other 
land,  houses,  or  any  other  sort  of  goods  belonging  to  my  said 
Estate,  but  them  that  have  house  lots  and  have  built  thereon, 
shall  keep  the  same  upon  condition  that  the  other  of  my  chil- 
dren shall  have  so  much  land  instead  thereof,  in  such  con- 
venient places  as  may  be  found  most  expedient  for  them  in 
any  place  belonging  to  my  said  Estate.  Myn  wife,  their 
mother,  shall  have  the  ordering  of  the  Estate,  that  is  to  say,  to 
have  the  profits  and  perquisites  of  the  same,  so  long  as  she  re- 
maineth  the  widow,  but  in  case  she  cometh  to  remarry,  that  she 
shall  have  the  one  right  half  of  the  whole  Estate,  either  lands, 
houses,  or  any  other  goods  or  chattels,  whatsoever  belong  to 
my  said  Estate,  and  the  other  half  shall  be  amongst  the  chil- 
dren aforesaid,  equally  dealt,  except  my  two  eldest  sons,  which, 
if  they  will  have  the  Lotts  above  mentioned,  must  pay  for  the 
same  with  the  interest  of  the  said  land,  and  shall  have  no  other 
part  in  my  said  Estate,  that  is  my  last  will  and  testament  and 
no  other,  in  witness  whereof  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and 
seal  the  day  and  year  first  above  written.        Louys  du  bois. 

Signed  and  sealed  in  presence  of 

Arent  Tennisson, 
Dirck  Schepmoes. 

Entered  upon  record  19th  May,  1686. 

Examined  per  John  Ward, 

D'p't  Cl'k. 

Louis  was  not  only  a  very  extensive  land  owner  but  a  money 
lender  likewise,  and  the  writer  has  in  his  possession  several 
receipts  in  his  handwriting  and  with  his  signature  for  loans 
repaid  to  Louis  in  his  later  years. 


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Some  time  after  her  husband's  death,  and  when  she  was  about 
63  years  of  age,  Louis'  widow  married  Jean  Cottin,  a  very 
\Yorthy  Huguenot,  who  kept  a  store  at  Kingston  and  had  been 
previously  the  schoohnaster  at  New  Paltz. 

In  the  year  1703  we  tind  recorded  in  the  church  book  at 
Kingston  the  following  interesting  entry  in  the  list  of  bap- 
tisms, under  date  of  September  5th : 

"Rachel  after  profession  of  her  faith  she  received 

the  sacrament  of  holy  baptism,  aged  17  years.  Besides  the 
points  required  of  her  in  the  formula  of  baptism  she  also 
promised  the  congregation  to  serve  her  mistress  Catharine 
Cottyn  faithfully  and  diligently  until  the  death  of  her  mistress 
and  after  that  to  serve  her  master  Jan  Cottyn  and  after  that 
she  shall  be  at  liberty  and  free." 

The  old  Dutch  dominie,  who  recorded  all  this  in  the  church 
book,  performed  a  valuable  deed  for  history  and  for  the  de- 
scendants of  Louis  DuBois,  the  Patentee.  Usually  the  church 
record  contained  simply  the  name  of  the  child  baptised,  the 
parents,  and  sponsors ;  but  here  we  have  the  evidence  that  the 
woman  who,  in  her  early  married  years,  saved  her  life  by 
singing  a  psalm,  while  the  savages  were  preparing  to  burn 
her  at  the  stake,  now  in  her  old  age  manumitted  her  negro 
woman.  This  is  perhaps  the  very  first  recorded  instance  in 
this  country  of  the  freeing  of  a  slave. 

Louis  DuBois,  the  Patentee,  had  been  dead  seven  years ; 
after  his  death  his  widow  had  married  that  good  old  French 
merchant  of  Kingston,  Jean  Cottin,  who  when  he  died  left  all 
his  property  to  the  church.  The  families  of  her  seven  sons, 
Abraham,  Isaac,  Jacob,  David,  Solomon,  Louis,  Jr.,  and  Mat- 
thew, were  living  at  New  Paltz,  Rochester,  Hurley  and  Kings- 
ton, but  it  was  to  none  of  these  that  her  negro  girl  should  go 


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as  a  slave.  Mrs.  Cottiii  was  an  old  woman.  It  was  not  to  be 
supposed  in  the  course  of  nature  that  she  or  her  husband  could 
live  many  years.  In  all  probability  by  the  time  the  negro  girl 
reached  the  age  of  25  she  became  a  free  woman  by  the  act  of 
her  mistress. 

We  have  said  that  Louis'  sons  were  Abraham,  Isaac,  Jacob, 
David,  Solomon,  Louis  and  Matthew. 

Of  these  sons  Matthew  settled  in  Kingston,  where  his  de- 
scendants still  reside.  David  located  in  the  town  of  Rochester, 
where  he  left  a  line  of  descendants.  Jacob  settled  on  a  farm 
of  his  father  in  old  Hurley,  where  he  left  a  large  family,  and 
his  second  son,  Louis,  settled  in  Monmouth  county,  N.  J.,  and 
was  the  father  of  Rev.  Benj.  DuBois  of  Revolutionary  fame. 
Patterson  DuBois  of  Philadelphia  is  of  Jacob's  line.  The  other 
four  sons,  Abraham,  Isaac,  Solomon  and  Louis,  Jr.,  remained 
at  New  Paltz.  Although  Isaac  was  only  about  18  years  of 
age  and  his  brother  Abm.  hardly  21,  they  were  both  associated 
with  their  father  as  .members  of  the  12  patentees  of  New  Paltz 
in  1677. 


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CHAPTER   XXV 

Abraham  DuBois,  the  Patentee 

Abraham  DuBois  married  Margaret  Deyo,  daughter  of 
Christian  Deyo,  the  Patentee.  They  left  a  family  of  children, 
the  eldest  of  whom,  also  named  Abraham,  was  baptised  in 
1685.  He  settled  in  the  Covinty  of  Somerset,  N.  J.  There  was 
but  one  other  son,  Joel,  who  died  in  1734  and  left  no  family. 
One  daughter  of  Abm.  DuBois,  the  Patentee,  married  Roelif 
Elting,  the  first  of  the  name  at  New  Paltz ;  another  daughter, 
Katharine,  born  in  1693,  married  Wm.  Donalson  and  located 
in  Lancaster  county,  Pennsylvania.  Another  daughter,  Leah, 
married  Philip  Ferrie  and  moved  with  him  to  Lancaster  county, 
Pa.,  where  her  father  had  obtained  a  patent  for  1,000  acres  of 
land.  Another  daughter,  Rachel,  married  her  cousin,  Isaac, 
son  of  Solomon  DuBois,  and  likewise  moved  to  Lancaster 
county,  Pennsylvania. 

Abm.  DuBois  was  the  last  survivor  of  the  12  patentees  of 
New  Paltz,  a  fact  that  is  stated  on  his  tombstone,  which  is  still 
standing  in  the  old  graveyard  in  this  village.     He  died  in  1731. 

Among  the  old  records  at  Albany  is  an  abstract  of  the  will 
of  Abm.  DuBois,  survivor  of  the  New  Paltz  Patentees.  The 
will,  which  was  probated  in  1731,  mentions  the  wife  Margaret, 
the  sons  Abraham  and  Joel,  the  daughters  Sara  (wife  of  Roelif 
Eltinge)  Leah  (wife  of  Philip  Ferree)  Rachel  and  Catharine. 
The  will  disposes  of  land  on  the  Raritan  in  New  Jersey,  on  the 
south  side  of  the  Paltz  River  (Walkill)  at  New  Paltz,  at  Can- 
istoga  and  house  and  lot  at  New  Paltz ;   also  personal  property. 


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The  executors  are  the  son  Abraham  and  the  son-in-law  RoeHf 
Eltinge.     Daniel  DuBois  is  one  of  the  witnesses. 

Edmund  Eltinge  had  in  his  possession  two  ancient  documents 
relating  to  Abram  DuBois  and  his  children.  One  of  them  is 
an  inventory  containing  a  "true  and  perfect  description  of  all 
ye  goods,  rights  and  credits  of  Joel  Dubois,  late  of  the  county 
of  Ulster  in  ye  province  of  New  York,  deceased,  taken  by 
Abraham  DuBois  of  ye  county  of  Summerset,  in  the  province 
of  New  Jersey,  husbandman,  the  only  brother  and  administrator 
of  the  said  Joel  DuBois,  deceased,  this  twenty-first  day  of  June 
in  the  eight  year  of  his  magisty's  reign,  anno  dom,  1734." 

The  other  paper  in  Mr.  Edmund  Eltinge's  possession  was  a 
release  from  the  heirs  of  Abraham  DuBois,  the  Patentee,  to 
Roelif  Elting  and  wife,  dated  A.  D.  1732  and  signed  by 

Wm.   Donaldson, 
Katharina  Donaldson, 
Rachel  Douboys, 
Abraham  Duboys, 
Lea  ferrie, 
Joel  Duboies, 
Philip  ferrie. 

Captain  R.  C.  DuBois,  of  Washington,  D.  C,  in  1890 
visited  New  Paltz  to  gather  material  for  a  history  of  the  family 
of  Louis  DuBois,  and  in  particular  the  descendants  of  his  son 
Abram,  the  last  survivor  of  the  New  Paltz  Patentees,  on  his 
return  stopping  in  Somerset  county,  N.  J.,  where  Abram,  son 
of  the  New  Paltz  Patentee  of  the  same  name,  removed  and 
located. 

Capt.  DuBois  says : 

I  found  the  old  stone  house  of  Abm.  DuBois,  son  of  the 
New  Paltz  Patentee,  still  standing  and  occupied,  looking  as  if 


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it  might  withstand  the  heavy  hand  of  centuries  yet  to  come. 
It  stands  within  the  shadow  of  the  mountain  from  the  heights 
of  which  Washington  watched  the  movements  of  Lord  Howe 
and  the  British  in  the  attempts  of  the  latter  to  reach  Philadel- 
phia. I  found  also  that  two  of  the  grandsons  of  Abram  the 
Second  were  in  the  service  and  on  the  right  side. 

Another  grandson  made  the  first  dies  for  the  mint  at  Phila- 
delphia. Thus  one  of  the  descendants  of  Louis  and  Abram 
DuBois  helped  to  lay  the  foundation  for  the  U.  S.  Mint,  which 
was  not  established  until  about  nine  years  later. 


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CHAPTER  XXVI 

The  Family  of  Isaac  DuBois,  One  of  the  New   Paltz 

Patentees 

Isaac  DuBois,  the  second  son  of  Louis,  was  the  youngest  of 
the  New  Paltz  patentees.  He  was  born  at  Manheim  about 
1659.  He  was  about  two  years  old  when  his  parents  came 
to  Kingston,  and  about  eighteen  years  old  when  they  came  to 
New  Paltz.  In  1683  he  married,  at  Kingston,  Mary,  daughter 
of  Jean  Hasbrouck,  the  Patentee.  Seven  years  afterwards  he 
died  "at  his  home  in  Paltz,"  as  is  briefly  stated  in  the  church 
book,  leaving  two  sons,  Daniel,  born  April  28,  1684,  and  Philip, 
born  in  1690;  another  son,  Benjamin,  having  died  young. 
Daniel's  baptism  is  the  first  one  recorded  on  the  old  French 
church  book  at  New  Paltz.  Of  the  son  Philip  we  have  no 
further  account  except  that  he  married  Esther,  daughter  of 
Peter  Gumaer  of  IMinnisinck,  settled  at  Rochester  and  left  no 
son.  One  daughter,  Esther,  married  Louis  Bevier  of  Marble- 
town.  Daniel  married,  June  8,  171 3,  Mary,  daughter  of  Simon 
LeFevre,  the  Patentee. 

The  following  release  from  Mary,  widow  of  the  Patentee, 
to  her  son  Daniel  is  found  among  the  old  papers  in  the  family : 

Know  all  men  by  these  presents  that  I  Mary  Dubois  of  the 
new  Paltz  in  County  of  Ulster  widdow  and  Relict  of  Isaac 
Dubois  late  of  the  same  place  deceased  for  divers  good  Causes 
me  thereunto  moving  but  more  and  Especially  for  a  Compe- 
tent sume  of  good  and  Lawful  money  to  me  in  hand  paid  by 
my  son  Daniel  Dubois  of  the  new  paltz  aforesaid  have  given 
granted   Released   devised   and   forever   quit   claimed   and   do 


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hereby  Release  and  forever  quit  claim  unto  the  sd  Daniel 
Dubois  his  heirs  and  assigns  forever  all  my  right  title  claim 
interest  and  demand  whatsoever  which  I  now  have  or  might 
could  or  ought  to  have  of  out  in  or  to  all  and  singular  the  real 
estate  of  lands  and  buildings  situate  and  being  within  the 
bounds  and  limits  of  the  township  of  new  paltz  which  did 
belong  unto  my  said  deceased  husband  in  his  lifetime  to  have 
to  hold  the  same  unto  the  said  Daniel  Dubois  his  heirs  and 
assigns  forever  to  the  sole  and  only  proper  use  benefit  and 
behoof  of  him  the  said  Daniel  Dubois  his  heirs  and  assigns 
forever  In  witness  whereof  the  said  Mary  Dubois  hath  here- 
unto putt  her  hand  and  scale  in  the  new  paltz  this  fourteenth 
day  of  February,  annoy  Dom.  1718-9. 

Mary  Dubois, 
her  M  mark. 

Sealed  and  delivered  In  the  presence  of  us, 

Solomon  dubois, 
Louis  bevier  le  jun, 
W.  Nottingham. 

Daniel,  Son  of  Isaac 

In  1705  Daniel  built  the  old  stone  house  or  fort  which  is  still 
standing,  with  its  iron  figures,  showing  the  date  of  erection, 
and  the  port  holes  in  the  eastern  walls  for  safety  against  In- 
dian attacks,  and  the  window  high  up  on  the  western  wall. 
We  find  Daniel's  name  in  the  list  of  freeholders  in  1728;  also 
in  the  release  from  the  proprietors  of  the  Paltz  Patent  to  Solo- 
mon DuBois,  in  1729.  Daniel  died  in  1755.  His  tombstone 
in  the  old  graveyard  in  this  village  bears  simply  the  date  and 
the  initials  D.  D.  B. 


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296  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Among  the  old  family  papers  is  found  a  will  of  Daniel,  in 
French,  dated  in  1729.  The  writing  is  very  plain  and  legible. 
Another  will,  in  English,  is  dated  1747  and  is  as  follows: 

In  the  Name  of  God  amen  the  twelve  day  of  September  in 
the  year  of  our  Lord  Christ  one  thousand  seven  hundred  & 
forty  seven  I  Daniel  Dubois  of  the  new  palyes  in  the  County 
of  Ulster  and  province  of  New  York  being  sick  of  body  but 
sound  memory  and  understanding  Praised  be  God  for  it  Calling 
to  mind  the  mortality  of  my  body  and  knowing  that  it  is  ap- 
pointed for  all  men  once  to  die  and  being  Desirous  to  Settle 
things  in  order  Do  Revoke  all  former  wills  and  Testaments  by 
me  in  any  ways  and  manner  before  this  time  made  named 
willed  Devised  and  bequeathed  Ratified  and  Confirm  this  and 
no  other  to  be  my  last  will  and  Testament  That  is  to  say  Prin- 
cipaly  and  first  of  all  I  Give  and  bequeath  my  Immortal  Soul 
into  the  hands  of  almighty  God  my  Creator  that  Gave  it  hoping 
by  the  meritorious  Death  and  passion  of  Jesus  Christ  my  sole 
Saviour  and  only  Redeemer  to  Receive  pardon  and  full  Re- 
mission for  all  my  Sins  and  my  body  to  the  Earth  from  whence 
it  Came  to  be  buried  in  Christian  Like  &  Decent  manner  at  the 
Discretion  of  my  Executors  herein  named  &  nominated  nothing 
Doubting  but  I  shall  Receive  the  same  again  at  the  General 
Day  of  Resurrection  by  the  almighty  power  of  God,  and  as 
touching  such  worldly  Estate  as  it  hath  pleased  God  to  bless 
me  with  in  this  world  I  give  Devise  and  Dispose  of  the  same 
in  the  following  manner  and  form  Imprimis  I  do  order  and 
appoint  that  my  Just  and  Honest  Debts  be  by  my  Executors 
within  Convenient  time  paid  and  satisfied  Item  it  is  my  will 
and  order  that  my  two  sons  Benjamin  and  Isaac  Dubois  Shall 
have  as  good  an  outfit  as  my  Son  Simon  has  had  Item  1  give 
and  Bequeath  unto  Maritie  my  dearly  beloved  wife  all  my  whole 
Estate  real  and  personal  during  her  natural  Lifetime  and  after 


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her  decease  to  be  divided  among  my  children  as  Shall  be  here- 
after ordered  and  mentioned  in  this  my  last  will  and  Testament 
Item  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  eldest  Son  Benjamin  Dubois 
his  heirs  and  assigns  for  Ever  first  out  of  my  stock  of  horses 
one  horse  the  choice  of  all  my  horses  in  Consideration  as  being 
my  eldest  son  on  which  account  he  shall  not  have  or  pretend 
to  have  any  thing  more  by  any  ways  or  pretences  whatsoever 
Item  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  Three  Sons  all  the  rest  of 
of  my  stock  of  horses  to  be  Equally  divided  amongst  them  share 
and  share  alike  Item  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  four  chil- 
dren all  my  Remainder  and  Remainders  of  all  my  Estate  Real 
and  personal  to  be  equally  divided  amongst  them  share  and 
share  alike  Each  and  equal  fourth  part  of  all  my  Estate  that 
is  to  say  to  my  Son  Benjamin  Dubois  his  heirs  and  assigns  for 
Ever  one  fourth  part  of  my  Estate  to  my  son  Simon  Dubois 
his  heirs  and  assigns  for  Ever  one  fourth  part  of  my  Estate 
to  my  son  Isack  Dubois  his  heirs  and  assigns  for  Ever  one 
fourth  part  of  my  estate  to  my  daughter  Elizabeth  wife  of 
Abraham  doyoe  to  her  heirs  and  assigns  for  Ever  one  fourth 
part  of  my  estate  Item  it  is  my  will  and  order  that  if  any  of 
my  children  shall  come  to  die  without  having  any  Lawful 
children  then  that  share  or  fourth  part  shall  be  divided  into 
Three  equal  Shares  amongst  the  rest  of  my  children  to  them 
their  heirs  and  assigns  for  Ever  and  in  case  any  of  the  Brothers 
or  Sisters  being  dead  and  Leaving  children  behind  them  their 
children  shall  have  their  fathers  or  mothers  share  shall  be 
divided  amongst  the  Children  share  and  share  alike  Item  I 
do  order  constitute  and  appoint  my  wife  Marietie  and  my  four 
children  as  follows  —  Benjamin  Dubois  Simon  Debois  Isack 
Dubois  and  my  daughter  Elizabeth  doyoe  above  named  to  be 
my  Executors  of  this  my  last  will  and  Testament  and  that 
every  part  and  parcel  hereof  may  be  performed  and  fulfilled 


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In  witness  whereof  I  have  hereunto  put  my  hand  and  seal  the 
day  and  year  above  written. 

Signed  sealed  published  pronounced  and  declared  by  the 
Said  Daniel  DuBois  to  be  his  last  will  and  testament  In 
the  presence  of 

Samuel  Bevier 

daniel  hasbrouck       Daniel  Dubois  [s] 

Charles  Brodhead 

Josia  Eltinge. 

Simon  DuBois 

Daniel  left  three  sons,  Simon,  Isaac  and  Benjamin,  and  one 
daughter,  Elizabeth,  who  married  Abraham  Deyo  (2)  and 
lived  with  him  in  this  village.  We  know  nothing  further 
concerning  Isaac.  Simon  married  Catharine  LeFevre  and  kept 
the  homestead  of  his  father.  Benjamin  married  Maria  Bevier 
and  lived  either  at  Springtown  or  in  the  stone  house  still  stand- 
ing on  the  farm  adjoining  the  Peter  D.  LeFevre  place  on  the 
south.  In  the  list  of  slaveholders,  in  1755,  Simon  DuBois  is 
mentioned  as  the  owner  of  three  male  and  three  female  slaves 
and  Benjamin  the  owner  of  three  slaves.  In  the  tax  list  of 
1765  we  find  Simon  assessed  for  £42  and  Benjamin  for  £29. 
We  find  Simon's  name  as  one  of  the  Duzine  in  1772.  The  old 
homestead  in  this  village  has  remained  in  the  possession  of 
Simon's  family  until  the  present  day.  We  have  in  our  pos- 
session an  ancient  paper,  being  the  official  record  of  the  town 
election  at  New  Paltz,  in  1749,  which  was  held  at  the  house 
of  Simon  DuBois,  and  contains  his  signature.  It  is  endorsed 
"Paltz  election  1749,  filed  May  2d."  It  is  in  English  and  a 
transcript  is  as  follows : 

At  the  annual  election  of  the  freeholders  and  Inhabitants  of 
the  township  of  the  New  Paltz  on  the  first  Tuesday  of  April 


300  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Annoq :  Dom :  1749  the  following  persons  were  duely  chosen 
and  elected  by  a  plurality  of  \^oices  of  said  towns  freeholders 
to  serve  the  said  town  in  the  soovrall  offices  which  they  were 
chosen  is  as  followeth  V't : 

Constable — Jacobus  Bovier. 
Supervisor — Abraham  Hardonborgh. 
Evort  terwelleeo. 


Assessors    ,    -r    •      t-i  • 

Josias  JLltuige. 

Collector — Noah  Eltinge. 

Surveyors  of  Highw^ay — Petrus  Low. 

(   Abraham  Rosa. 
Overseers  of  the  Poor   -{    ,,     ,        r      r 

I  Abraham  Lesfover. 

I    Josias  Eltinge. 

Fence  Mewers   a    Isaac  Freer. 

(.   Hendrikus  Dubois. 

The  Election  was  Koop  By  me  the  under  Written  Simon 
Dubois  as  Constable  Pme.  Simon  Dubois. 

There  are  a  number  of  other  papers  of  Simon  DuBois  that 
have  come  down  in  the  family  until  the  present  day  and  have 
been  stored  in  the  old  trunk  for  perhaps  150  years.  Simon 
Dubois'  sons  were  Joseph,  Daniel  (called  Velche),  who  kept 
the  homestead  in  this  village ;  Isaac  and  Andries,  the  two  latter 
being  twins.  Simon  also  had  one  daughter,  Cornelia,  w^ho  mar- 
ried Josaphat  Hasbrouck,  and  another  daughter,  Mary,  who 
married  Jacobus  Rose. 

Daniel  married  Catharine  Bessimer.  They  had  no  children. 
The  old  homestead  in  his  day  is  described  as  an  old-fashioned 
one-story  house  with  a  basement,  the  entrance  to  which  was 
directly  off  the  street.  An  old  gentleman  informs  us  that 
when  he  was  a  bov  there  was  no  fire  in  the  church  on  Sundays 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  301 

and  it  was  customary  for  people  to  have  foot-stoves  to  keep 
warm  while  attending  Divine  service.  At  the  DuBois  house 
a  good  fire  of  hickory  wood  was  kept  burning  on  Sunday  morn- 
ing that  people  might  have  good  coals  to  put  in  the  foot-stoves. 

Isaac,  son  of  Simon  and  brother  of  Daniel,  married  Rebecca 
Deyo.  They  lived  for  a  time  at  what  has  been  of  late  years 
the  Wm.  E.  DuBois  place,  where  they  had  a  grist  mill.  They 
then  moved  to  Chenango  county,  but  not  liking  the  country 
there  moved  back  to  Ulster  county.  It  is  related  that  Mrs. 
DuBois  in  going  to  Chenango,  aided  by  pushing  on  the  wagon 
at  different  places,  and  in  returning  was  so  desirous  of  getting 
back  to  Ulster  county  that  she  lent  her  aid  in  the  same  manner. 
After  coming  back  from  Chenango  Isaac  built  what  is  now  the 
Nathan  Townsend  house  at  Centerville,  where  he  lived  a  long 
time  and  ended  his  days.  This  house  was  built  of  stone,  but 
has  been  since  sided  over. 

In  the  Revolutionary  War  Isaac  served  as  a  private  in  Capt. 
Abraham  Deyo's  company  in  the  Third  Ulster  County  Regi- 
ment. Isaac  DuBois  left  four  sons  :  Joseph,  who  lived  on  South 
street  in  the  town  of  Lloyd  and  afterwards  moved  to  Michigan ; 
Simon,  who  kept  his  father's  homestead,  now  the  Nathan 
Townsend  place  at  Centerville ;  Daniel  who  took  the  place  of 
his  uncle  Daniel  in  this  village ;  and  Henry  I.,  w4io  lived  at 
Ohioville.  Simon,  at  Centerville,  was  twice  married.  By  his 
first  wife  he  had  one  son,  Abraham,  who  sold  the  house  to 
Nathan  Townsend  and  bought  a  farm  in  the  Grahow  neigh- 
borhood. By  his  second  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Poyer, 
Simon  had  two  daughters. 

Daniel  DuBois  always  lived  in  the  homestead  of  his  fathers 
in  this  village  which  had  come  to  him  from  his  uncle  Daniel. 
He  married  ^Magdalene  Hasbrouck.  Daniel's  children  were 
John  W.,  Daniel,  Alelissa,  who  married  Benjamin  Relyea,  and 


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Mary,  whose  heirs  now  own  and  occupy  the  old  homestead, 
Daniel  rebuilt  the  old  stone  house,  but  the  walls  of  the  lowei 
portion  of  the  house  have  been  left  unchanged  and  the  port 
holes  in  the  eastern  and  northern  walls  remain  to  the  present 
day. 

Andries  DuBois 

Isaac's  twin  brother,  Andries,  located  at  Highland  where  he 
had  a  mill,  now  the  Philip  Schantz  mill.  His  wife  was  Mary 
Deyo,  sister  of  his  brother  Isaac's  wife.  Andries  was  a  stone 
mason  and  with  his  own  hands  built  the  stone  house  in  which 
he  lived  and  which  is  still  standing.  Andries  left  but  one  son, 
Joseph,  who  died  in  the  army  in  the  war  of  1812,  leaving  one 
daughter,  who  married  Daniel  Tooker  of  Marlborough.  An- 
dries had  four  daughters :  Phebe,  marr-ied  Job  G.  Elmore ; 
Ellen,  married  Reuben  Deyo ;  Elizabeth,  married  Samuel  Dun- 
can ;  Rachel,  married  Arthur  Doren  and  kept  the  mill,  and 
Catharine,  married  Dr.  Deyo  and  after  his  death  Isaac  Craft. 

Hon.  Andrew  E.  Elmore,  of  Fort  Howard,  Wis.,  was  born 
in  the  old  stone  house  of  his  grandfather,  Andries  DuBois, 
and  was  named  for  him.  From  Mr.  Elmore  we  have  our  in- 
formation concerning  this  branch  of  the  family.  At  the  age  of 
eighty-one  Mr.  Elmore  visited  the  National  capital,  and  on  his 
return  stopped  at  Highland  to  visit  his  old  home.  He  likewise 
drove  to  New  Paltz  to  see  friends  and  to  take  another  look  at 
the  old  DuBois  house,  the  house  of  his  mother's  ancestors,  and 
in  the  attic  of  which,  before  it  was  rebuilt,  he  had  slept  when 
a  child. 

Joseph  DuBois 

Joseph,  the  youngest  son  of  Simon  and  brother  of  Daniel, 
Isaac  and  Andries,  married  Marv  Hardenburgh  and  lived  about 


HISTORY  OF  N  h\V  PALTZ  303 

two  miles  north  of  this  village  on  what  has  been  known  of  late 
years  as  the  Moses  P.  LeFevre  place.  Joseph  had  one  son, 
Hardenburgh,  and  one  daughter  who  married  Daniel  Bevier 
of  Ireland  Corners.  Hardenburgh  kept  store  for  a  time,  about 
1830,  in  what  is  now  the  Huguenot  bank  building. 

Benjamin  DuBois 

We  will  now  go  back  to  Benjamin,  grandson  of  Isaac  the 
Patentee  and  son  of  Daniel.  Benjamin  left  his  brother  Simon 
in  possession  of  the  homestead  in  this  village  and  located  on 
the  other  side  of  the  Wallkill  in  the  Springtown  neighborhood. 
His  wife  was  Maria  Bevier.  Benjamin's  children  were  Daniel, 
who  married  Catharine  LeFevre ;    Anna,  who  married  Petet 

Freer;    Abraham,   who  married  Bevier,   and   Samuel, 

who  married  Jane  LeFevre.  All  located  in  the  town  of  New 
Paltz  as  it  then  existed,  and  in  the  Springtown  neighborhood 
their  descendants  lived, — some  of  them  till  the  present  time. 
Benjamin's  oldest  son,  Daniel,  married  Catharine  LeFevre  and 
lived  in  the  old  stone  house  adjoining  the  Peter  D.  LeFevre 
place  on  the  south,  and  here  his  only  son,  Abraham,  lived  after 
him.  A  little  story  that  dates  back  about  100  years  illus- 
trates the  customs  of  those  times.  Daniel's  cousin  Isaac,  son 
of  Simon,  had  come  to  visit  him.  Each  had  a  horse  of  which 
he  was  proud  and  each  claimed  that  his  own  horse  was  the 
better  of  the  two.  So  to  settle  the  question  the  two  cousins, 
both  of  whom  were  then  old  men,  decided  to  have  a  test  on  the 
ice  on  the  Wallkill  at  once.  The  horses  were  hitched  up  forth- 
with, but  the  question  as  to  which  had  the  better  horse  was 
never  settled  as  one  horse  fell  into  an  air  hole  and  was  drowned. 

Abraham,  who  was  Daniel's  only  son,  married  Anna  Le- 
Fevre of  Bloomingdale.  He  died  in  middle  age.  His  sons 
were  Daniel  A.,  Simon  L.,  Benjamin  and  Samuel.     Abraham 


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had  a  daughter  who  married  Maurice  Hasbrouck,  another 
married  Alexander  Elting  and  another  married  Mathusalem 
Wurts.  The  two  last  named  moved  to  the  vicinity  of  Auburn 
in  western  New  York.  The  fourth  daughter,  Margaret,  re- 
mained unmarried  and  was  the  last  survivor  of  the  family. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  305 

CHAPTER  XXVII 

Solomon  DuBois,  Son  of  Louis  the  Patentee 

Solomon  DuBois  was  born  in  1670,  while  his  parents  re- 
sided in  Hurley.  He  married,  about  1692,  Tryntje  Gerritson, 
who  was  the  daughter  of  Gerrit  Cornelissen.  Solomon  built 
his  house  near  where  Capt.  W.  H.  D.  Blake  now  resides.  He 
died  in  1759  at  the  great  age  of  89  years.  We  do  not  know 
where  he  is  buried.  Solomon  was  a  man  of  much  influence, 
was  an  officer  in  the  New  Paltz  church,  occupied  civil  trusts, 
and  accumulated  much  landed  property  not  only  at  New  Paltz, 
but  in  Greene  county  and  at  Perkiomen,  Chester  county,  now 
Lancaster  county.  Pa.  Louis  DuBois,  the  Patentee,  received 
June  2,  1688,  from  Gov.  Dongan,  a  patent  for  a  large  tract  of 
land,  on  which  his  sons  Solomon  and  Louis  Jr.  located,  lying 
on  both  sides  of  the  Wallkill.  Solomon's  house,  built  on  this 
tract,  was  quite  probably  the  first  house  built  outside  of  the 
village.  From  a  tax  list  laid  by  the  provincial  government, 
which  included  a  tax  on  chimneys,  it  appeared  that  Solomon's 
house  had  two  chimneys. 

Outside  of  our  village  there  is  no  place  in  Southern  Ulster 
of  more  interest  to  the  antiquarian  than  this  farm  occupied  by 
Capt.  W.  H.  D.  Blake.  This  neighborhood  was  called  by  our 
grandfathers  by  the  Indian  name  of  Poughwoughtenonk.  Here, 
on  the  patent  granted  to  Louis  DuBois,  his  sons,  Solomon  and 
Louis,  Jr.,  lived.  Here  stood  the  Conferentie  church  just 
before  the  Revolution.  Across  the  Wallkill,  at  the  mouth  of 
the  Plattekill,  was  the  last  Indian  village  in  this  vicinity.  The 
homestead  of  Louis  DuBois,  Jr.,  who  resided  a  short  distance 


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south,  was  broken  up  and  passed  out  of  the  family  long,  long 
ago.  The  site  of  the  house  even  can  not  be  determined.  But 
the  homestead  of  his  brother  Solomon  descended  from  genera- 
tion to  generation  of  DuBoises  till  about  1880. 

Josiah  DuBois  is  still  well  remembered.  He  lived  to  be  87 
years  of  age  and  in  his  olden  days  loved  to  tell  of  the  days  of 
our  forefathers.  The  writer  has  still  a  very  distinct  recol- 
lection of  a  visit  to  Uncle  Josiah's  home  in  his  early  childhood 
and  of  the  stories  he  told  of  the  old  times  and  old  people. 
Even  to  the  present  day  a  considerable  portion  of  the  stories 
of  the  olden  times  are  related  on  the  authority  of  Josiah  DuBois. 

The  homestead  at  Poughwoughtenonk  has  passed  out  of  the 
possession  of  the  DuBois  family,  but  it  has  a  worthy  owner  in 
Capt.  W.  H.  D.  Blake,  who  seems  to  possess  all  the  love  of  the 
ancient  traditions  of  Josiah  DuBois,  who  in  1822  built  the 
brick  house  in  which  Capt.  Blake  now  resides. 

Near  the. bank  of  the  Wallkill  a  short  distance  up  the  stream 
is  the  cellar  of  the  house  of  Solomon  DuBois.  The  knocker 
on  the  door  always  bore  the  initials  S.  D.  B.  From  Solomon 
this  house  passed  to  his  son,  Cornelius,  Sr.,  who  left  a  rather 
singular  will,  providing  that  his  only  son,  Cornelius,  Jr.,  should 
have  all  his  real  estate  during  his  life  time,  but  after  his  death 
his  six  sisters  or  their  heirs  should  have  their  share.  The 
landed  estate  amounted  to  about  3,000  acres,  lying  on  both 
sides  of  the  Wallkill.  One  of  the  daughters  of  the  first  Cor- 
nelius, named  Sarah,  had  married  Jacob  Hasbrouck  of  Marble- 
town.  Under  the  arrangement  for  the  division  of  the  Pough- 
woughtenonk estate  her  son,  Dr.  Cornelius  Hasbrouck,  the 
father  of  Mrs.  Peter  Barnhart,  deceased,  of  New  Paltz,  be- 
came the  owner  of  this  old  house,  which  was  torn  down  in  his 
time. 

Solomon    left   a    family  of   four   sons   and   four   daughters. 


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The  sons  were  Isaac,  who  settled  at  Perkiomen,  Pa.,  Benjamin, 
who  settled  at  Catskill,  and  Cornelius  and  Hendricus,  who 
settled  on  their  father's  estate  in  Ulster  county.  Solomon's 
daughters  married  as  follows :  Jacomyntje  married  her  cousin 
Barent,  son  of  Jacob ;  Sarah  married  Simon  Van  Wagenen, 
New  Paltz ;  Helena  married  Josiah  Elting  of  New  Paltz,  and 
Catharine  married  Peter  Low  of  New  Paltz. 

The  name  of  Solomon  DuBois  appears  with  the  title  of 
lieutenant  in  the  documentary  history  of  New  York,  Vol.  Ill, 
page  972,  and  he  is  credited  with  active  military  service. 

Solomon's  son  Isaac,  who  settled  at  Perkiomen,  Lancaster 
county,  Pennsylvania,  married  his  cousin  Rachel,  daughter  of 
Abraham,  the  Patentee.  They  left  no  sons,  but  had  a  family 
of  four  daughters,  Catharine,  Margaret,  Rebecca  and  Eliza- 
beth. One  of  the  descendants  of  Isaac  DuBois  is  Mr.  Samuel 
E.  Gross  of  Chicago,  who  has  shown  himself  one  of  the  warm- 
est friends  of  the  New  Paltz  Huguenot  Memorial  Society. 

Solomon's  son  Benjamin  married,  in  1721,  Catharine  Suy- 
lant  and  settled  at  Catskill  in  what  was  then  a  portion  of 
Albany  county  about   1727. 

They  had  a  large  family  of  children,  several  of  whom  were 
born  before  their  location  at  Catskill.  The  sons  were  Petrus, 
Benjamin,  Solomon,  Huybartus,  Cornelius  and  Isaac. 

The  DuBois  family  flourished  at  Catskill.  But  it  is  not  the 
purpose  of  this  book  to  trace  the  fortunes  of  the  New  Paltz 
families  outside  of  Ulster  county. 

A  carefully- written  history  of  the  descendants  of  Benjamin 
DuBois  of  Catskill  has  been  published  by  one  of  their  number, 
Rev.  Dr.  Anson  DuBois,  who  is  spending  an  honored  old  age 
at  Newburgh. 

We  resume  now  the  thread  of  our  narrative  concerning  the 
family  at  Poughwoughtenonk. 


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REV.    DR.    ANSON   DU  BOIS 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  309 

The  matter  of  making  good  the  title  of  Louis  DuBois,  Jr., 
and  Solomon  DuBois  to  the  tract,  on  which  they  resided,  as 
far  as  any  possible  claims  by  the  proprietors  of  the  Paltz  patent 
were  concerned,  was  perfected  in  1729,  as  shown  by  an  ancient 
quit  claim  in  possession  of  the  late  Edmund  Eltinge  in  which 
it  is  stated  that  for  the  sum  of  sixpence  the  owners  of  the  Paltz 
patent  release  unto  Solomon  and  Louis  DuBois  all  claims 
upon  the  tract  granted  unto  Louis  DuBois,  of  Kingston,  de- 
ceased, by  Thomas  Dongan,  late  Governor,  lying  on  both  sides 
of  the  Paltz  river  and  extending  from  the  lands  of  said  Paltz 
to  the  lands  of  James  Graham  and  John  Delavoll.  (That  is 
the  Guilford  Patent.)     This  document  is  signed 

Jacob  Hasbrouk,  Solomon  Hasbroucq, 

Daniel  Hasbroucq,  Isaac  lefevre, 

Daniel  DuBois,  Jan  een, 

Samuel  Bevier,  Abraham  Doiau, 

Andre  lefevre,  Louis  bevier, 

jean  lefevre,  his 

Hugo  X  ffrear. 
mark 

(These  names  are  interesting  as  showing  the  quaint  orthog- 
raphy of  those  days,  showing  also  who  were  the  Dusine  in 
1729.) 

The  Descendants  of  Solomon  DuBois 
AT  Poughwoughtenonk 

Solomon  DuBois,  as  we  have  stated,  left  two  sons,  Cornelius 
and  Hendricus,  who  settled  on  the  ancestral  acres.  The  for- 
mer married  Margaret  Houghtaling.  He  inherited  3,000  acres 
from  his  father's  estate  which  was  called  Poughwoughtenonk, 


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and  here  he  resided.  He  left  a  family  of  three  sons,  Wilhel- 
mus,  Josiah  and  Cornelius,  and  six  daughters.  The  last  named 
son  was  the  only  one  who  married  and  outlived  his  father. 

In  Solomon's  will,  which  was  made  in  1756  and  admitted  to 
probate  in  1759,  he  gives  to  his  four  granddaughters,  children 
of  his  son  Isaac,  all  the  land  at  Perkiomen,  Pa.,  to  his  son 
Benjamin  his  land  at  Catskill,  but  requiring  him  to  pay  iioo 
divided  equally  between  his  daughter  Helena,  wife  of  Josiah 
Elting,  and  the  children  of  his  daughter  Catharine,  wife  of 
Peter  Low.  The  will  gives  the  son  Cornelius  the  lands  occu- 
pied by  him  on  the  patent  granted  to  his  father  and  likewise 
a  moiety  of  the  New  Paltz  patent,  but  requires  him  to  pay  iioo 
to  his  sisters  or  their  heirs.  The  will  gives  to  the  son  Hen- 
dricus  the  lands  in  his  possession  within  the  patent  granted  to 
the  testator's  father,  Louis  DuBois,  the  Patentee,  also  a  moiety 
of  the  New  Paltz  patent,  but  requires  him  to  pay  £100  to  his 
sisters.  The  testator  provides,  moreover,  that  if  any  of  his 
children  or  grandchildren  shall  commence  a  law  suit  against 
other  of  his  children  on  account  of  dissatisfaction  with  the 
will  they  shall  forfeit  their  share  of  the  estate.  The  sons, 
Benjamin  and  Hendricus,  and  John  Elting  of  Kingston  are 
appointed  executors  of  the  will. 

The  six  daughters  married  as  follows:  Janitje  married 
Major  Jacob  Hasbrouck  of  New  Paltz,  Catharine  married 
Col.  Jonathan  Hasbrouck  of  Newburgh,  Rachel  married  Col. 
Lewis  DuBois  of  Marlborough,  Leah  married  Cornelius  Wyn- 
koop  of  Hurley,  Sarah  married  Jacob  Hasbrouck  of  Marble- 
town  and  Jacomintje  married  Andries  Bevier  of  W'awarsing. 
Cornelius,  Jr.,  occupied  his  father's  homestead.  In  the  Revo- 
lutionary war  he  served  as  quartermaster  in  the  4th  Regiment 
of  Militia,  of  which  his  brother-in-law  Jonathan  Hasbrouck  of 
Newburgh,   was  colonel.     He  married  Gertrude  Bruyn.     He 


HISTORY  OF  XEW  PALTZ  311 

left  one  son,  Josiah,  who  married,  and  a  family  of  daughters, 
who  married  as  follows :  Jane  married  Jacob  Hardenburgh 
of  New  Paltz,  Margaret  married  Abni.  J.  Hardenburgh  of 
Shawangunk,  Sarah  married  John  N.  LeFevre  of  Kettleboro, 
Hannah  married  Andries  J.  LeFevre  of  Kettleboro,  Mary  mar- 
ried Wm.  McDonald  of  W'awarsing. 

Josiah  DuBois  in  his  younger  days  carried  on  the  mercantile 
business  in  what  is  now  the  Memorial  House. in  this  village  in 
partnership  with  Col.  Josiah  Hasbrouck,  whose  daughter,  Eliza- 
beth, he  married  as  his  first  wife.  About  1822  he  left  New 
Paltz  and  moved  to  the  ancestral  acres  where  he  erected  the 
fine  brick  house,  still  standing,  and  here  he  lived  until  his 
death  in  1868,  at  the  great  age  of  87  years.  After  the  death 
of  his  first  wife  he  married  Catharine  Winfield,  of  Peconosink 
in  the  town  of  Shawangunk.  The  children  by  the  first  wife 
were  Sarah,  who  married  Rev.  Mr.  Easton,  and  Pamela,  who 
married  Abner  Hasbrouck.  The  children  by  the  second  wife 
were  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Dr.  Isaac  Reeve;  Gilbert,  Edward, 
Josiah,  Antoinette  and  Jane,  wife  of  Dr.  William  Pierson. 

Hendricus  DuBois 

Going  back  now  to  Hendricus,  the  other  son  of  Solomon, 
we  find  that  he  married  Janet je  Houghtaling.  He  lived  on 
what  is  now  known  as  the  Capt.  Jacob  M.  DuBois  place. 
Hendricus  had  a  family  of  four  sons,  Solomon,  Philip,  Ma- 
thusalem  and  Henry  (sometimes  called  Hendricus),  and  four 
daughters,  Catharine,  Leah,  Rachel  and  Dina,  all  of  whom 
married  as  follows  :  Catharine  married  Matthew  DuBois,  Leah 
married  Christopher  Kiersted,  Rachel  married  John  A.  Har- 
denburgh and  Dinah  married  Abram  Elting. 

In  the  building  of  the  Conferentia  church,  which  was  situ- 
ated near  the  residence  of  his  brother,   Cornelius,  Hendricus 


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DuBois  and  Noah  Elting  were  the  most  Hberal  contributors 
•ind  in  the  organization  of  this  church  Hendricus  took  a  very 
active  part,  a  meeting  being  held  at  his  house  August  29,  1767, 
for  the  purpose  of  organizing  this  church.  Both  Hendricus 
and  CorneHus  were  men  of  large  means. 

The  family  of  Hendricus  DuBois  were  noted  for  their  great 
size,  and  the  saying  is  still  remembered  of  an  old  negro  man 
named  Frank,  \yho  lived  to  be  about  100  years  of  age,  that 
more  large  people  had  come  out  of  his  house  than  out  of  any 
other  house  in  the  country. 

'  Three  of  Hendricus'  sons,  Solomon,  Mathusalem  and  Henry, 
served  in  the  Revolutionary  war.  The  first  named  had  his  knee 
injured  in  some  way  in  the  army  and  remained  lame.  His 
knee  would  click  as  he  walked,  for  which  reason  he  was  some- 
times called  "Clinker."  Their  brother  Philip  kept  a  public 
house  at  Liberty ville,  and  his  widow,  whose  maiden  name  was 
Anna  Hue,  continued  it  after  his  death  in  Revolutionary  times. 
Methusalem  was  a  captain  in  the  army  and  was  stationed  at 
Newburgh.  In  "New  York  in  the  Revolution"  his  name  ap- 
pears as  ensign  in  the  4th  Ulster  County  Militia.  He  was 
twice  married,  his  first  wife  being  Gertrude  Bruyn  and  his 
second  Catharine  Bevier.  We  have  more  stories  concerning 
Mathusalem  than  of  almost  any  man  of  that  period,  although 
we  have  no  account  of  the  battles  in  which  he  was  engaged. 
After  the  war  he  was  usually  called  "Old  Captain."  He  lived 
in  a  house  part  wood  and  part  stone,  torn  down  about  1830, 
on  the  place  lately  owned  by  his  grandson,  Zachariah.  The 
sword  which  he  carried  in  the  army  came  down  to  his  grand- 
son, Peter  W.,  of  Liberty  ville,  who  allowed  it  to  be  taken  to 
Indiana  by  one  of  the  family.  In  those  days  there  was  much 
game  in  the  country,  and  it  is  related  that  Captain  Mathusalem 
was  coming  afoot  to  church   (of  course  we  mean  the  Confer- 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  313 

entia  church  near  Mr.  Blake's  present  residence),  when  he  saw 
a  deer  lying  asleep  by  the  side  of  a  log,  and  that  he  seized  the 
deer,  and  though  a  little  dog  that  was  with  him  kept  snapping 
at  his  legs,  while  busy,  he  took  out  his  pocket  knife,  with  which 
he  dispatched  him.  He  did  not  go  to  church  that  day,  but  car- 
ried the  deer  home.  While  Captain  DuBois  was  stationed  at 
Newburgh  the  Indians  burned  Wawarsing,  and  it  was  thought 
that  they  would  cross  the  mountains.  It  is  related  that  an  old 
colored  woman  in  the  place  kept  a  pot  of  water  boiling  for  two 
or  three  days,  in  order  to  give  the  redskins  a  warm  reception, 
but  they  did  not  come. 

Captain  Mathusalem  had  two  sons,  Wilhelmus  (father  of 
Peter  W.)  and  Philip  (father  of  Zach.),  by  his  second  wife. 
By  his  first  wife  he  also  had  two  sons,  Abram,  who  went  west, 
and  Cornelius,  who  lived  where  his  grandson,  the  late  Henry 
M.,  resided. 

A  short  distance  from  the  residence  of  the  "Old  Captain" 
w^s  that  of  his  brother,  Henry  (or  Hendricus),  who  was  an 
adjutant  in  the  patriot  army  in  the  regiment  commanded  by 
Lewis  DuBois  of  Marlborough.  His  wife  was  Rebecca  Van 
Wagenen.  Their  children  were  Garret,  Mathusalem,  Mary, 
Jane  and  Rebecca.  Garret  lived  where  Garret  L.  DuBois  lately 
lived,  on  the  east  bank  of  the  Wallkill.  Mathusalem  lived 
where  his  father  and  his  grandfather  had  lived  before  him  and 
his  son,  Capt.  Jacob  M.,  lived  after  him.  Jane  married  Z. 
Freer,  the  father  of  Henry  D.  B.  Rebecca  married  her  cousin, 
Cornelius,  father  of  Mathusalem  and  grandfather  of  Henry  M., 
who  occupied  the  old  homestead,  where  his  father  and  hi? 
grandfather  lived  before  him. 


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CHAPTER    XXVIII 

The   Family  of   Louis  DuBois,  Jr.,   Son   of  Louis 
THE  Patentee 

Louis  DuBois,  Jr.,  was  born  in  1677,  and  in  1701  married 
Rachel  Hasbrouck.  He  settled  on  a  portion  of  the  same  tract 
as  his  brother  Solomon,  which  had  been  granted  by  patent  to 
their  father,  the  original  Louis.  Where  Louis,  Jr.,  built  his 
house  we  do  not  know,  but  it  was  somewhere  on  the  County 
House  plain  a  little  south  of  his  brother's.  The  locality  where 
Louis,  Jr.,  located  was  called  until  quite  recently  by  the  Indian 
name  of  Nescatack,  changed  in  modern  times  to  Libertyville. 
In  an  ancient  document  the  name  of  Louis,  Jr.,  appears  with 
the  title  of  Captain,  but  we  have  no  information  as  to  any  mili- 
tary service  performed  by  him.  Louis  DuBois,  Jr.,  left  three 
sons,  Jonathan,  Nathaniel  and  Louis.  He  also  had  threee 
daughters,  Maria,  Mary  and  Catharine.  The  first  named  mar- 
ried Johannes  Hardenburgh  of  Rosendale. 

Solomon  and  Louis  DuBois,  Jr.,  sold  to  Roelif  Eltinge,  in 
1726,  the  land  where  Edmund  Eltinge  resided  and  the 
original  deed  was  still  in  I\Ir.  Eltinge's  possession.  It  read  as 
follows : 

To  all  Christian  people  to  whom  this  present  writing  shall 
or  may  come.  Lewis  DuBois  and  Solomon  DuBois,  both  of 
the  New  Paltz,  for  divers,  good  causes  and  considerations, 
them  thereunto  moving,  have  remised,  released,  and  forever 
quit-claimed  and  by  these  presents  for  themselves  and  their 
heirs   do  fully,   freely,   clearly,   and  absolutely  remise,  release 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  315 

and  forever  quit-claim  unto  Roelif  Elting,  of  the  same  place, 
yeoman,  in  his  full  and  peaceable  possession  and  to  his  heirs 
and  assigns,  forever,  all  such  right,  estate,  title,  interest  and 
demand,  forever,  as  they  the  said  Lewis  DuBois  and  Solomon 
DuBois,  had  or  ought  to  have,  of  out,  or  in,  to  all  that  certain 
tract  or  parcel  of  land  which,  lying  and  being  at  the  New  Paltz 
aforesaid,  on  the  west  side  of  the  Paltz  Kil  on  the  grant,  piece 
now  in  possession  of  the  said  Roelif  Eltinge  and  likewise  all 
the  land  on  the  east  side  of  the  said  Kill,  now  in  possession,  of 
the  said  Roelif  Eltinge,  together  with  the  house,  barn,  orchards, 
pastures  and  all  and  every  thing  appurtenances,  thereunto  be- 
longing or  in  any  wise  appertaining  to  have  and  to  hold  the 
above  remised  and  released  premises,  with  all  and  every  the 
appurtenances,  thereunto  belonging  unto  the  said  Roelif  El- 
tinge, his  heirs  and  assigns,  forever,  so  that  neither,  they  the 
said  Lewis  DuBois  and  Solomon  DuBois  nor  their  heirs,  nor 
any  other  person  from,  by  or  under  them,  shall  claim,  chal- 
lenge or  demand  any  right,  title  or  interest  into  or  to  the  prem- 
ises or  any  part  thereof. 

Feb.  4,  1726-7. 
Witnesses  : — 

Jregan  Tappen, 
Geo.   vanWagonen. 

Acknowledgement  signed  by  Abraham  Gaasbeck  Chambers, 
Judge  of  the  supreme  court  of  common  pleas. 

Gil  Livingston,  Clerk. 
There  seems  to  have  been  some  misunderstandins:  as  to  the 


3i6  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

exact  boundary  between  the  Paltz  patent  and  the  DuBois  patent 
occupied  by  Louis  and  Solomon,  and  Mr.  Samuel  B.  Stillwell 
had  among  his  papers,  a  document  in  the  hand  writing  of 
the  late  Josiah  DuBois,  and  copied  in  1850  by  him  from  the 
original,  bearing  date  in  1729  and  establishing  the  line  as 
follows : 

Pursuant  to  his  excellencies  w^arrant  dated  the  13th  day  of 
November  last  to  me  directed,  I  have  by  the  mutual  consent 
and  agreement  of  Solomon  DuBois  and  Lewis  DuBois,  own- 
ers of  a  tract  of  land  adjoining  to  the  south  bounds  of  the  lands 
of  the  New  Paltz  and  of  Abm.  DuBois,  Jacob  Hasbrouck, 
Daniel  Hasbrouck  and  likewise  other  proprietors  and  owners 
of  the  said  New  Paltz,  surveyed  the  south  bounds  of  the  lands 
of  the  said  New  Paltz  as  follows,  viz :  Beginning  at  a  certain 
high  point  in  the  hills  lying  on  the  west  side  of  the  New  Paltz 
River  and  from  thence  runs  south  thirty-five  degrees  east  to 
a  stone  set  in  the  ground  on  the  east  side  of  the  highway,  and 
at  the  west  end  of  a  small  gully,  wdiich  falls  in  the  Paltz  River 
and  lyes  between  the  fence  of  the  lands  of  the  said  New  Paltz 
and  the  lands  of  the  said  Solomon  DuBois  and  Lewis  DuBois 
which  stone  was  allowed  by  both  parties  to  have  been  placed 
there  as  a  mark  of  the  boundaries  between  the  land  of  the  said 
Solomon  and  Lewis  DuBois  and  the  lands  of  New  Paltz  and 
from  the  said  stone  down  the  said  gully  two  chains  and  46 
links  to  the  Paltz  river,  then  crossing  the  said  river  runs  from 
the  opposite  side  thereof  south  56  degrees  and  40  minutes  east 
to  the  south  side  of  Geffrow's  hook  and  the  north  east  cornet 
of  John  Barbour's  land  on  Hudson  River.  Given  under  my 
hand,  this  7th  day  of  April  in  the  second  year  of  his  majesty's 
reign,  Anno  Dom.  1729. 

Copy Caldwallader  Golden,  Jr. 


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P.  S.  The  stone  referred  to  is  marked  on  the  north  side 
P.  L.  (meaning  I  think  Paltz  limits)  on  the  south  side  D.  D.  B. 
There  are  more  such  stones  on  the  same  hne,  on  the  east  side 
of  the  Wallkill,  if  not  lost. 

Louis,  Son  of  Louis,  Jr. 

The  pamphlet  published  in  i860  by  Robert  Patterson  DuBois, 
of  New  London,  Penn.,  and  Wm.  E.  DuBois,  of  Philadelphia, 
containing  the  history  of  a  number  of  the  descendants  of  Louis 
DuBois,  the  Patentee,  has  only  this  to  say  about  Louis,  Jr., 
and  his  descendants : 

"Louis,  who  was  born  about  1677.  Having  received  infor- 
mation from  some  of  his  descendants,  we  can  speak  more  fully 
in  regard  to  this  line.  It  appears  that  Louis  was  married  to 
Rachel  Hasbrouck  in  1701.  How  many  children  they  had  is 
not  known,  only  that  there  was  one  son  named  Louis,  who  was 
born  about  171 7,  married  Charity  Andrevelt  and  settled  in 
Staten  Island.  This  last  Louis  had  six  children,  viz.,  Louis, 
Matthias,  Augustus,  John,  Charles  and  Elizabeth.  Matthias, 
the  second  of  these,  who  was  born  in  1747  and  died  in  1820, 
had  by  his  first  wife,  Catharine  Carshun,  Mary,  Louis,  Daniel, 
Matthias  and  John ;  and  by  his  second  wife  three  daughters, 
Ann,  Lockley  and  Susan.  He  removed  with  all  his  family, 
about  the  year  1792,  from  Staten  Island  to  Nanticoke,  Broome 
county,  N.  Y.,  where  several  branches  of  his  family  now  reside. 
In  1847  John,  the  only  surviving  child  of  Matthias'  first  wife, 
was  living  in  Tioga,  N.  Y.,  and  about  70  years  of  age.  He  was 
the  father  of  twelve  children,  most  of  whom  lived  in  Tioga 
county,  N.  Y.,  and  two,  viz.,  John  and  Matthias,  were  living 
in  Williamsport,  Pa.  It  was  through  this  last  named  and  his 
father  that  these  facts  were  procured." 


3i8  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Jonathan,  Son  of  Louis,  Jr. 

Jonathan,  son  of  Louis,  Jr.,  married  Elizabeth  LeFevre, 
daughter  of  Andries  LeFevre.  They  probably  occupied  the 
house  of  his  father,  but  we  have  no  testimony  on  that  score 
except  that  they  lived  in  that  same  neighborhood.  They  had 
a  family  of  three  sons,  Louis  J.,  Andries  and  Nathaniel,  and 
three  daughters,  Rachel,  Cornelia  and  Maria.  Cornelia  mar- 
ried Cornelius  \>rnooy  and  Maria  married  Abm.  Bevier  and 
both  settled  in  the  New  Hurley  neighborhood. 

The  will  of  Jonathan,  which  was  made  in  1746  and  admitted 
to  probate  in  1749,  gives  to  his  eldest  son,  Louis  J.,  his  large 
Dutch  Bible  as  a  birthright ;  it  gives  to  his  wife  Elizabeth  all 
his  estate  during  her  widowhood,  but  in  case  she  should  marry 
again  she  is  required  to  give  to  the  children  all  the  estate  except 
one  negro  girl  and  such  cows  and  household  goods  as  she  had 
when  she  married ;  after  his  wife's  marriage  or  death  he  gives 
to  his  eldest  son,  Louis  J.,  all  his  land  on  the  south  east  side 
of  the  Paltz  river,  but  he  is  required  to  pay  to  his  brothers, 
Andries  and  Nathaniel,  and  to  his  sisters,  Rachel,  Cornelia  and 
Maria,  £250  current  money  of  New  York,  to  be  equally  divided 
between  them ;  to  the  youngest  son,  Jonas,  the  will  gives  all 
the  land  on  the  north  west  side  of  the  Paltz  river,  but  he  is 
required  to  pay  to  his  brothers,  Andries  and  Nathaniel,  and  his 
sisters,  Rachel,  Cornelia  and  ]^Iaria,  the  sum  of  £450.  In  case 
the  wife  shall  die  or  marry  before  the  sons,  Louis  and  Jonas, 
come  of  age  the  farms  shall  be  rented  by  the  executors  and  the 
proceeds  applied  to  the  bringing  up  and  educating  the  children ; 
to  the  four  sons  are  bequeathed  all  horses,  wagons  and  farming 
utensils,  and  to  the  three  daughters  all  household  goods  and 
furniture.  All  the  residue  of  his  estate  is  divided  equally  be- 
tween the  sons  and  daughters.  The  testator's  brother,  Na- 
thaniel DuBois,  and  his  brother-in-law,  Johannes  Hardenburgh, 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  319 

and  Wessel  Brodhead  are  appointed  executors.  The  will  is 
witnessed  by  Cornelius  DuBois,  Evert  Terwilliger,  Jr.,  and 
J.  Bruyn. 

We  have  no  farther  account  of  Jonathan's  son  Jonas.  He 
probably  died  young. 

Jonathan's  son  Andries  married  Sarah  LeFevre,  of  New 
Paltz  village,  and  settled  at  Wallkill,  in  those  days  sometimes 
called  New  Hurley,  where  his  brick  house  is  still  stand- 
ing and  was  the  first  house  of  brick  in  this  part  of  the 
country. 

Andries'  sons  were  Simon  L.,  Sen.,  Jonathan  and  Andries. 
He  had  one  daughter,  Elizabeth,  who  married  Johannes  Le- 
Fevre, of  Kettleborough,  and  another  daughter,  Elsie,  who 
married  Philip  LeFevre,  of  Kettleborough.  Andries,  son  of 
the  Andries  who  built  the  brick  house,  moved  to  New  Paltz 
village  and  occupied  the  old  LeFevre  homestead  here,  which 
stood  in  the  north  part  of  the  present  church  yard.  This 
property  came  to  him  from  his  uncle,  Andries  LeFevre,  who 
left  no  children.  When  the  present  brick  church  was  erected, 
in  1839,  this  LeFevre  house  was  torn  down.  Andries  moved 
to  Put  Corners  into  the  stone  house  now  owned  by  Mr.  Jacob 
Champlin.  His  sons  were  Louis,  who  occupied  his  father's 
residence ;  Nathaniel,  who  located  at  Shivertown,  and  Jonathan, 
who  lived  just  north  of  this  village.  The  descendants  of 
Simon  L.,  Sen.,  still  reside  at  Wallkill.  He  had  but  one  son, 
Simon  L.,  Jr. 

Nathaniel  DuBois,  son  of  Jonathan  and  grandson  of  Louis, 
Jr.,  did  not  marry.  He  built  the  first  mill  at  Libertyville. 
Jonathan's  son,  Louis  J.,  lived  in  Revolutionary  times  where 
Henry  L.  DuBois  lately  resided.  His  wife  was  Catharine 
Brodhead.  The  house  in  which  they  lived  is  still  standing  and 
is  probably  the  oldest  frame  house  in  this  part  of  the  country. 


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HOUSE   OF   CAPT.    LOUIS   J.    DU  BOIS 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  32^ 

It  has  been  re-sided,  but  the  great  beams  are  as  of  old.  It  has 
always  been  in  the  possession  of  the  DuBois  family.  Louis  J. 
was  commissioned  as  captain  of  the  ist  New  Paltz  company 
of  the  3rd  Ulster  County  Regiment,  October  25,  1775.  We 
have  no  account  of  the  service  that  he  rendered  in  this  capacity 
to  the  patriotic  cause  during  the  Revolutionary  war.  He  has 
a  great  number  of  descendants  in  this  vicinity.  Louis  J.'s 
children  were  as  follows :  Wessel,  Jonas,  Charles,  Louis, 
Jonathan,  Elizabeth  and  Anna. 

Wessel,  the  eldest  son,  has  no  descendants  here.  He  lived 
in  a  house,  torn  down  long  ago,  on  the  present  C.  L.  Van  Orden 
place.  His  son  Jonathan  lived  on  the  other  side  of  the  moun- 
tain. Eli  DuBois,  of  Ellenville,  and  ex-supervisor  Louis,  of 
Denning,  were  grandsons  of  Wessel. 

Jonas  lived  where  Louis  L.  DuBois  now  resides.  He  had 
ten  children,  of  whom  ex-supervisor  George,  of  this  town,  was 
the  last  survivor.  The  other  children  were  L.  Nathaniel  of 
Walden,  Louis  I.,  LeFevre,  James,  Wessel,  Deyo,  David 
Eliza,  wife  of  Anthony  Crispell,  and  Maria,  wife  of  Jacob 
Ostrander. 

Charles  carried  on  the  milling  business  at  Libertyville  and 
was  a  prominent  and  highly  respected  man.  His  children  were 
Stephen  G.,  Catharine,  wife  of  Abiel  Hand,  Rebecca,  Henry, 
Louis,  Derick  W.,  Jacob  and  Zacharias.  The  two  last  named 
settled  in  Michigan. 

Jonathan  lived  in  Springtown.  He  was  elected  county  judge 
in  1821.  Jonathan's  children  scattered.  Two  sons,  John  and 
Brodhead,  settled  in  Michigan.  Another  son,  George,  became 
a  minister  and  was  located  at  Tarrytown.  Three  daughters 
became  the  wives  of  Benjamin  Van  Wagenen,  Derick  W.  El- 
ting  and  Alexander  Hasbrouck. 


322  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Louis  located  in  the  mountains.  His  children  were  Coe, 
Katy  Ann  and  Rachel. 

Elizabeth  married  Rev.  Stephen  Goetchius,  who  was  pastor 
of  the  church  at  New  Paltz  from  1775  to  1796.  They  left  a 
family  of  children. 

i\nna  became  the  second  wife  of  Jacob  J.  Hasbrouck.  They 
left  a  large  family  of  children. 

Altogether  the  grandchildren  of  Louis,  who  grew  up,  num- 
bered about  fifty. 

About  1870  the  descendants  of  Louis  DuBois  held  a  picnic 
in  the  grove  on  the  bank  of  the  Wallkill,  on  the  farm 
now  owned  by  Louis  L.  DuBois,  and  the  attendance  was  very 
large. 


Nathaniel,  Son  of  Louis,  Jr. 

Nathaniel  DuBois,  son  of  Louis,  Jr.,  located  at  Blooming 
Grove,  now  Salisbury  Mills,  in  Orange  county.  Nathaniel's 
wife  was  Gertrude  Bruyn,  whom  he  married  in  1726.  He  left 
three  sons,  Lewis,  Zachariah  and  Jonas,  and  three  daughters, 
one  of  whom,  Rachel,  became  the  wife  of  Andries  LeFevre, 
one  of  the  two  brothers  who  were  the  first  settlers  at  Kettle- 
borough.  Another  daughter,  Hester,  became  the  wife  of  Col. 
Jesse  WoodhuU. 

Nathaniel's  son  Lewis  settled  in  Marlborough  and  his  house, 
which  is  still  standing,  was  the  first  house  on  the  river  front. 
He  served  in  the  army  during  a  great  portion  of  the  Revolu- 
tionary war,  including  the  invasion  of  Canada,  where  he  was 
promoted  from  captain  to  major  and  he  afterwards  became 
colonel  of  the  5th  Continental  Regiment,  receiving  his  com- 
mission November   17,   1776.     His  tombstone  is  still  pointed 


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out  in  the  graveyard  of  the  old  Presbyterian  church  at  Marble- 
borough.     He  died  in  181 2. 

Nathaniel's  son  Zachariah  also  rendered  service  in  the  Revo- 
lutionary war  as  a  major  and  was  taken  prisoner  when  the 
British  captured  Fort  Montgomery. 


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HOUSE   OF    COL.    LEWIS   DU  BOIS   AT    MARLBOROUGH 


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CHAPTER   XXIX 

Military  Service  of  Col.  Lewis  DuBois 

The  following-  account  of  the  service  and  military  career  of 
Col.  Lewis  DuBois  during  the  Revolutionary  war  was  written 
by  Mr.  Robert  E.  Deyo,  of  New  York : 

During  the  summer  of  1775  there  was  great  excitement  in 
the  Province  of  New  York  over  the  proposed  expedition  for 
conquering  Canada.  The  troops  from  New  York  were  com- 
manded by  General  Montgomery.  One  of  the  regiments  was 
the  Third  of  the  New  York  line,  whose  colonel  was  James 
Clinton,  a  brother  of  Gov.  George  Clinton.  Of  one  ot  the 
companies  of  this  regiment  Lewis  DuBois  was  captain.  His 
commission  was  issued  June  28,  1775.  On  August  21  the 
muster  roll  of  his  company  was  returned  and  filed.  The  term 
of  enlistment  was  for  six  months.  This  company  was  known 
as  the  Dutchess  Company,  and  its  officers  were  :  Captain,  Lewis 
Dubos ;  first  lieut.,  Elias  Van  Benschoten ;  second  lieut.,  An- 
drew T.  Lawrence ;    vice,  Cornelius  Adriance,  resigned. 

]\Tr.  Ruttenber  says  :  "These  regiments  were  more  especially 
recruited  for  the  invasion  of  Canada,  a  popular  craze  at  that 
time  which  did  much  to  fritter  away  the  resources  of  the  colo- 
nists and  yielded  no  other  return  than  the  development  of 
capacities  for  leadership  and  experience  in  the  service.  It  was 
a  severe  school,  but  men  marched  to  it  with  a  shout.  They  were 
well  armed  and  uniformed.  *  *  *  The  Third  or  Ulster 
Regiment  had  gray  coats  with  green  cuffs  and  facings.  Their 
breeches  and  waistcoats  were  of  Russia  drilling,  the  former 
were  short  (to  the  knee)   and  the  latter  long  (to  the  hips). 


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Their  stockings  were  long  (to  the  knee)  of  coarse  woolen 
homespun,  low  shoes,  linen  cravats  and  low-crowned,  broad- 
brimmed  felt  hats. 

"The  New  York  regiments  were  brigaded  under  General 
Montgomery  and  were  with  him  in  all  his  movements.  At 
Point  aux  Trembles,  on  the  ist  of  December,  the  entire  force 
under  his  command  had  dwindled  down  to  about  900  effective 
men.  In  fruitless  attempts  to  force  an  entrance  into  Quebec, 
three  weeks  were  wasted  and  then  an  assault  made.  Mont- 
gomery, at  the  head  of  his  New  York  men,  descended  from  the 
Plains  of  Abraham  in  the  neighborhood  of  St.  John's  and  St. 
Louis  gates  and  Cape  Diamond  bastion.  At  the  narrowest  point 
under  Cape  Diamond  the  British  had  planted  a  three-gun  bat- 
tery. On  the  river  side  was  a  precipice,  and  on  the  left  rough 
crags  of  dark  slate  towered  above  them.  The  guard  at  the 
battery  in  front  stood  ready  with  lighted  matches.  Mont- 
gomery halted  a  moment  to  reconnoitre  and  then  into  the  jaws 
of  death  charged  the  900  over  heaps  of  ice  and  snow.  When 
within  forty  paces  of  the  battery,  its  fire  was  opened  on  the 
advancing  column  and  a  storm  of  grape  shot  swept  the  narrow 
pass  and  continued  for  ten  minutes.  Montgomery  and  both 
his  aids  and  several  privates  were  killed — the  unwounded  living 
fell  back." 

After  this  repulse  our  little  army  lay  before  Quebec  all  of 
the  winter  of  1775-6.  Of  what  occurred  we  know  but  little. 
While  in  the  field  Lewis  DuBois  was  raised  from  captain  to 
major.  General  Benedict  Arnold  wrote  to  the  President  of 
Congress  a  long  letter  dated  from  "Camp  before  Quebec,  i 
February,  1776."  In  this  among  other  things  he  states  the 
reason  why  a  certain  Major  Brown  should  not  be  promoted 
and  ends  up  by  saying :  "This  transaction.  Colonel  Campbell, 
Major  Dubois  and  several  gentlemen  were  knowing  to." 


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This  extract  is  only  important  as  showing  that  on  February 
I,  1776,  he  was  already  a  major.  On  March  8,  1776,  he  was 
made  a  major  in  Col.  John  Nicholson's  regiment  raised  in 
Canada  out  of  the  four  New  York  regiments  which  originally 
went  there,  the  term  of  their  enlistment,  being  for  only  six 
months,  having  expired. 

General  George  Clinton  writes  in  1776: 

"Major  Dubois  is  highly  recommended  to  Congress  as  well 
by  the  general  officers,  as  the  Committee  who  lately  returned 
from  Canada.  I  wish  and  believe  young  Richard  Piatt  may 
be  properly  provided  for  in  the  (new)  regiment.  He  was  with 
Major  Dubois  and  Capt.  Bruyn  at  Point  Lacoy  at  the  engage- 
ment between  our  people  and  a  number  of  Canadians  in  which 
the  latter  was  defeated,  and  behaved  well  as  Major  Dubois  can 
testify." 

At  the  same  time  that  Lewis  Dubois  was  in  Canada  with 
Montgomery,  he  was  second  major  in  Col.  Jonathan  Has- 
brouck's  militia  regiment.  The  other  officers  were  :  Lieutenant- 
colonel,  Johannis  Hardenbergh,  Jr. ;  first  major,  Johannes  Jan- 
sen,  Jr.;  second  major,  Lewis  DuBois ;  adjutant,  Abraham 
Schoonmaker ;  quartermaster,  Isaac  Belknap.  This  regiment 
was  organized  September  2,  1775.  The  commissions  of  the 
officers  were  dated  25th  of  October,  1775. 

At  the  time  of  the  return  of  the  expedition  which  went  to 
Canada,  there  were  four  regiments  of  the  line  enlisted  for  three 
years  or  during  the  war,  existing  in  the  State  of  New  York. 
It  was  determined  to  raise  a  fifth.  The  preliminary  step 
seems  to  have  led  to  a  clash  of  authority  between  the  Conti- 
nental Congress  and  the  Provincial  Congress.  On  the  26th  of 
June,  1776,  John  Hancock,  president  of  the  Continental  Con- 
gress, wrote  a  letter  to  the  Provincial  Convention  in  which  was 


328  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

enclosed  a  notice  that  Lewis  DuBois,  major  in  the  Canada  ser- 
vice, was  commissioned  June  25,  1776,  by  the  Continental 
Congress,  with  instruction  to  raise  a  regiment  for  three  years 
or  during  the  war,  to  be  the  Fifth  Regiment  of  the  New  York 
line,  and  that  the  Continental  Congress  had,  on  June  26th, 
appointed  the  other  officers  for  the  regiment  as  follows : 

Lieutenant-colonel,  Jacobus  S.  Bruyn;  major,  William  Go- 
forth  ;  captains,  David  DuBois,  Elias  Van  Benschoten,  Thomas 
DeWitt,  Isaac  Wool,  Philip  D.  B.  Bevier,  Richard  Piatt,  Albert 
Pawling,  Cornelius  T.  Jansen. 

First  lieutenants,  James  Gregg,  Aaron  Austin,  Jonathan 
Piercy,  Evans  Wherry,  Garret  Van  Wagenen,  Henry  \'"anden- 
burg,  Nathaniel  Conklin,  Henry  Dodge. 

Second  lieutenant,  ist  Company,  Dan.  Gano;  surgeon,  John 
Coates,  and  adjutant,  Henry  DuBois. 

Commissions  were  to  be  given  as  soon  as  the  full  comple- 
ment of  men  had  been  raised. 

In  the  letter  which  enclosed  this  list.  President  Hancock  says : 

"You  will  perceive  by  the  enclosed  resolves  which  I  do  myself 
the  honor  of  transmitting  in  obedience  to  the  commands  of 
Congress,  they  have  appointed  not  only  the  field  officers  in  the 
regiment  to  be  raised  in  your  colony,  but  likewise  a  number  of 
subalterns.  The  reason  that  induced  Congress  to  take  that 
step,  as  it  is  a  deviation  from  rule,  should  be  particularly  men- 
tioned. I  am  therefore  directed  to  inform  you,  that  in  conse- 
quence of  their  being  furnished  with  a  list  of  officers  who  had 
served  in  Canada,  they  had  been  enabled  to  appoint,  and  in  fact 
have  only  appointed,  such  as  were  recommended  and  appointed 
by  the  Provincial  Congress  of  your  Colony,  and  have  served 
faithfully  in  the  last  summer  campaign  and  through  the  winter. 
It  is  apprehended  therefore  that  the  Congress  have  only  pre- 


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vented  (forestalled)  you  in  their  appointments  and  that  the 
same  gentlemen  would  have  met  with  your  approbation  for 
their  services  to  their  country ;  added  to  this  the  last  intelli- 
gence from  Canada  showing  our  affairs  to  be  in  the  most 
imminent  danger  rendered  the  utmost  dispatch  necessary,  that 
not  a  moment's  time  might  be  lost. 

"The  other  officers  of  the  battalion  I  am  to  request  you  will 
be  pleased  to  appoint  and  exert  every  nerve  to  equip  the  bat- 
talion as  soon  as  possible.  As  an  additional  encouragement 
the  Congress  have  resolved  that  a  bounty  of  ten  dollars  be  given 
every  soldier  who  shall  enlist  for  three  years." 

Of  the  officers  named,  Richard  Piatt,  Aaron  Austin,  Jonathan 
Piercy,  Garret  Van  Wagenen  and  Dan  Gano,  resigned  because 
they  considered  themselves  slighted  by  the  positions  assigned 
them.  In  addition,  the  Provincial  Convention  considered  that 
the  Continental    Congress   was   unwarrantably  interfering. 

In  the  proceedings  of  the  Provincial  Convention,  November 
21,  1776,  the  committee  appointed  to  carry  into  execvition  the 
resolves  of  Congress  relative  to  the  new  arrangement  of  officers, 
reported  through  Robert  Yates,  chairman,  that  they  had  com- 
pleted an  arrangement  of  officers  for  the  four  battalions  or- 
dered to  be  raised  in  this  State,  and  further  that  in  forming  their 
report  so  far  as  the  officers  of  Col.  DuBois'  regiment  are  con- 
cerned in  it,  your  committee  considered  that  they  were  entitled 
to  no  other  rank  than  what  they  held  prior  to  their  appointment 
in  that  regiment,  which  was  done  without  the  recommendation 
or  intervention  of  the  Convention  of  this  State,  contrary  to  the 
uniform  practice  in  all  similar  cases  and  in  prejudice  of  other 
officers  of  higher  rank  and  equal  merit.  That  your  committee 
were  constrained  by  those  principles  to  omit  Col.  DuBois'  name 
in  the  present  arrangement.  That  Col.  DuBois  has  been  well 
recommended  to  this  committee  as  an  exceeding  good  officer 


330  HISTORY  OF  XEJJ'  PALTZ 

capable  of  commanding'  a  regiment  with  credit  to  himself  and 
advantageous  to  his  country. 

That  from  the  quota  of  this  State  being  assessed  as  low  as 
four  battalions,  many  good  officers  will  be  unprovided  for. 
That  sundry  applications  have  been  made  to  your  committee 
for  commissions  by  young  gentlemen  of  fortune  and  family, 
whose  services  your  committee  are  under  the  disagreeable 
necessity  of  declining  to  accept. 

That  your  committee  are  clearly  of  opinion  that  another  bat- 
talion might  be  raised  in  this  State,  and  they  therefore  earnestly 
recommend  it  to  the  convention  to  use  their  influence  with  the 
General  Congress  to  obtain  their  permission  and  order  for  that 
purpose,  and  that  Col.  Dubois  command  the  said  battalion  so 
to  be  raised  and  to  have  the  rank  of  fourth  colonel  of  New 
York  forces. 

Thereupon  it  was.  among  other  things, 

"Ordered,  that  a  letter  be  written  to  the  Hon.  the  Continental 
Congress  requesting  their  approbation  of  the  resolutions  for 
raising  a  fifth  battalion  in  this  state  to  be  commanded  by  Col. 
Louis  Dubois,  and  another  letter  to  General  Washington  re- 
questing his  countenance  to  that  measure." 

These  efforts  were  successful. 

The  Fifth  Regiment  was  finally  organized  with  the  following 
officers : 

Louis  Dubois,  colonel;  Jacobus  Bruyn.  lieutenant-colonel; 
Samuel  Logan,  major;  Henry  Dubois,  adjutant;  Nehimiah 
Carpenter,  quartermaster ;  Samuel  Townsend,  paymaster ;  John 
Gano,  chaplain  ;  Samuel  Cook,  surgeon  ;  Ebenezer  Hutchinson, 
surgeon's  mate. 

Captains,  Jacobus  Rosecrans,  Jas.  Stewart,  Amos  Hutchins, 


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Philip  D.  Bevier,  Thomas  Lee,  Henry  Goodwin,  John  F.  Ham- 
track,  John  Johnston. 

First  heutenants,  Henry  Dodge,  John  Burnett,  Patten  Jack- 
son, Thos.  Brinkley,  Henry  Pawhng,  Samuel  Pendleton, 
Francis  Hanmer,  Henry  Vandenburgh. 

Second  lieutenants,  Samuel  Dodge,  Alex.  McArthur,  John 
Furman,  Samuel  English,  Daniel  Birdsall,  Ebenezer  Mott, 
James  Betts. 

Ensigns,  Henry  Swartout,  John  McClaughry,  Edward 
Weaver,  Jacobus  Sleight,  Thomas  Beynx,  Abraham  Lent, 
Henry  J.  Vandenburgh. 

The  commission  of  Col.  Dubois  was  dated  November  17, 
1776.  While  the  Fifth  Regiment  was  forming  he  was  too 
zealous  to  remain  inactive.  The  British  were  then  in  posses- 
sion of  New  York.  The  Patriot  army  was  in  the  vicinity  ot 
White  Plains.  On  the  28th  of  January,  1777,  William  Duer, 
in  a  letter  to  General  Washington,  dated  from  camp  in  West- 
chester county,  says : 

"  *  *  Col.  Dubois  who  has  come  down  with  the  York 
militia  as  a  volunteer  and  who  has  repeatedly  offered  his  ser- 
vice to  destroy  King's  bridge,  will,  I  fear,  return  to-morrow, 
despairing  to  see  anything  effectual  done." 

Early  in  1777  the  Fifth  Regiment  was  ordered  to  garrison 
duty  at  Fort  Montgomery.  On  April  30th  of  that  year  a 
court  martial,  of  which  Col.  Lewis  Dubois  was  president,  was 
there  convened  by  order  of  Brig.-Gen.  Geo.  Clinton,  for  the 
trial  of  all  such  persons  as  should  come  before  them  charged 
with  levying  war  against  the  State  of  New  York  within  the 
same,  adhering  to  the  King  of  Great  Britain  and  owing  alle- 
giance or  deriving  protection  from  the  laws  of  the  said  State 
of  New  York.     This  court  recommended  that  eleven  men  who 


332  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

were  tried  before  them  should  be  hanged.     Others  were  ac- 
quitted or  designated  for  milder  punishment. 

We  shall  not  recapitulate  the  incidents  which  led  up  to  the 
assault  on  Fort  Montgomery  by  the  British,  nor  to  the  details 
of  that  fight.  These  are  accessible  in  any  good  history.  With 
regard  to  Col  Lewis  Dubois'  share  in  this  fight,  Mr.  Rutten- 
ber  says : 

"His  services  in  the  army  were  held  in  high  esteem  by  his 
contemporaries;  Col.  Dubois'  (Fifth)  regiment  was  especially 
the  regiment  of  this  (Newburgh)  district  both  in  its  member- 
ship and  in  its  services.  It  was  stationed  in  the  Highlands  in 
the  spring  of  1777  and  was  there  when  Forts  Clinton  and  Mont- 
gomery were  taken  by  the  English  forces  in  October  of  that 
year.  Through  a  mistaken  conclusion  arising  from  the  fact 
that  they  were  clothed  in  bunting  shirts  such  as  farmers'  ser- 
vants in  England  wear,  its  dead  in  that  action  were  ranked  as 
militia  by  the  British.  The  facts  are  that  the  brunt  of  the 
desperate  and  heroic  resistance  which  was  made  fell  on  Col. 
Lewis  Dubois'  regiment,  shared  by  Lamb's  artillery.  The  re- 
turns of  Col.  Dubois'  Fifth  as  they  stand  on  its  roll  book,  are : 
taken  prisoners,  Lieut.  Col.  Jacobus  Bruyn,  Major  Samuel 
Logan,  Quartermaster  Nehemiah  Carpenter,  Captain  Henry 
Goodwin,  Lieutenants  Alex.  McArthur,  Patten  Jackson,  Henry 
Pawling,  Solomon  Pendleton.  Second  Lieuts.  Samuel  Dodge, 
John  Furman,  Ebenezer  Mott.  Ensigns  Henry  Swartout,  John 
McClaughry,  Abm.  Leggett.  Sergeant  Henry  Schoonmaker. 
"Missing  in  action"  is  written  against  the  name  of  ninety-six 
of  the  privates  or  not  less  than  one-third  of  the  whole  strength 
of  the  regiment  at  that  time.  These  men  did  not  run — they 
were  overwhelmed.  Wliile  all  of  them  were  not  killed,  many 
were,  and  their  bodies  pierced  by  the  bayonet  for  no  gun  was 
fired   by   the   assaulting   column — found   resting   place   in   the 


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waters  of  "bloody  pond,"  where  in  the  succeeding  spring,  with 

an  arm,  a  leg  or  a  part  of  the  body  above  the  surface 
they  presented  the  scene  which  Dwight  describes  as  'mon- 
strous.' " 

In  this  engagement  Col.  Dubois  received  a  bayonet  wound  in 
the  neck,  as  appears  by  a  letter  from  Gen.  Putnam  to  Gen. 
Gates,  hereafter  quoted  from.  This  shows  the  desperate  char- 
acter of  the  fighting. 

The  course  of  those  who  escaped  appears  quite  clearly  from 
an  account  of  it  by  Rev.  John  Gano,  chaplain  of  the  regiment, 
who  wrote : 

"The  dusk  of  the  evening,  together  with  the  smoke  and 
rushing  in  of  the  enemy,  made  it  impossible  for  us  to  dis- 
tinguish friend  or  foe.  This  confusion  gave  us  an  opportunity 
of  escaping  through  the  enemy  over  the  breastwork.  Many 
escaped  to  the  water  and  got  on  board  a  scow  and  pushed  off. 
Before  she  had  got  twice  her  length  w^e  grappled  one  of  our 
row-galleys  into  which  we  all  got  and  crossed  the  river.  We 
arrived  safe  at  New  Windsor,  where,  in  a  few  days  after  we 
were  joined  by  some  more  of  our  army  who  had  escaped  from 
the  forts." 

Gen.  Clinton,  writing  to  Gen.  Washington,  says : 

"Many  officers  and  men  and  myself  having  the  advantage 
of  the  enemy  by  being  well  acquainted  with  the  ground,  were 
so  fortunate  as  to  effect  our  escape  under  cover  of  the  night 
after  the  enemy  were  possessed  of  all  the  works." 

It  is  not  true,  as  often  asserted,  that  Col.  Lewis  Dubois 
was  taken  prisoner  at  Fort  Montgomery.  Maj.  Zachary  Du- 
bois, of  Col.  Jesse  Woodhull's  regiment  of  Orange  county 
militia,  a  brother  of  Col.  Lewis  Dubois,  was  taken  a  prisoner 


334  HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z 

and  removed  to  New  York.  Some  glimpse  of  what  happened 
to  the  Major  after  his  capture  is  had  from  the  following  docu- 
ments. 

Memorandum  of  Zachariah  DuBois  of  Capture  and 
Imprisonment 

Monday  the  6th  Oct.  1777,  then  I  was  taken  prisoner  at 
Fort  Montgomery  and  kept  there  till  the  eighth  day,  then  I 
was  taken  aboard  the  Archer  ship,  a  transport,  there  kept  till 
the  tenth,  then  taken  to  the  old  City  Hall,  there  kept  till  the 
twelfth,  then  taken  to  the  Provost,  there  kept  till  the  ist  day 
of  November,  then  got  on  parole  on  Long  Island,  Bedford,  till 

the  ,  then  moved  to  New  Utritch,  and  there  staid  till 

the  twenty-eighth,  then  they  sent  us  on  board  the  transport 
ship  Judith,  and  there  kept  till  the  loth  day  of  December, 
then  to  our  old  quarters  at  New  Utritch,  etc. 

PAROLE 

I,  Zachariah  Dubois,  of  Goshen,  in  the  Province  of  New 
York,  having  leave  from  General  Sir  Henry  Clinton,  to  go  out 
of  this  city  in  order  to  effect  the  exchange  of  myself  for  Maj. 
Thomas  Aloncrief.  do  hereby  pledge  my  faith  and  word  of 
honor,  that  I  will  not  do  or  say  anything  contrary  to  the  in- 
terest of  his  Majesty  or  his  Government,  and  that  if  the  ex- 
change of  the  above  person  for  myself  cannot  be  effected  within 
twenty  days,  I  will  return  back  to  my  captivity  in  this  city. 

Given  under  my  hand  in  New  York,  this  fourth  day  of 
August,    1776. 

Witness :    Thos.  Clark. 

Zachariah  Dubois. 

A  true  copy,  John  Winslow, 

D.  Com.  Prs. 


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DISCHARGE   AND    PAROLE 

This  is  to  certify  that  Zachariah  Dubois,  Major  in  Colonel 
WoodhuU's  regiment  of  militia  in  the  state  of  New  York,  and 
made  prisoner  by  the  enemy  at  the  reduction  of  Fort  Mont- 
gomery, was  this  day  regularly  discharged  for  Maj.  Moncrief, 
in  the  service  of  the  King  of  Great  Britain. 


Elizabethtown,  Aug.  6,  1778. 


Jno.   Beatty, 

Com.  Gen.  Pris'rs. 


After  the  first  shock  of  defeat  the  disaster  was  found  not  to 
be  serious  as  at  first  supposed.  General  Putnam,  writing  to 
General  Washington  under  dateof  Fishkill,80ctober,  1777,  says  : 

"I  have  the  pleasure  to  inform  you  that  many  more  of  our 
troops  made  their  escape  than  what  I  was  at  first  informed  of. 
Colonel  Dubois  who  is  one  of  the  number,  this  day  collected 
near  200  of  his  regiment  that  got  off  after  the  enemy  were  in 
the  Fort." 

General  Putnam,  writing  to  General  Gates  from  Fishkill, 
eleven  o'clock  a.  m.,  9  October.  1777,  says: 

"Colonel  Dubois,  who  had  a  wound  with  a  bayonet  in  his 
neck,  has  mustered  near  200  of  his  men,  who  were  with  him 
in  the  action,  many  of  whom  have  slight  wounds  with  bayonets 
and  swords  but  are  in  high  spirits." 

From  General  Putnam,  Governor  Clinton  obtained  Col. 
Webb's  brigade  and  with  them  crossed  the  river  to  New 
Windsor,  Orange  county,  on  October  8th,  the  second  day  after 
the  battle.  On  the  same  day  Governor  Clinton  wrote  to  the 
Legislature  from  his  headquarters  at  the  house  of  Mrs.  Falls, 
which  still  stands  in  Little  Britain  Square,  that  "not  more  than 


336  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

eleven  officers  of  Col.  Dubois'  regiment  are  missing,  200  of 
his  men  including  non-commissioned  officers,  have  already 
joined  me  at  this  place;  many  more  of  them  may  be  hourly 
expected  as  we  have  heard  of  their  escape." 

By  alarms  and  signal  guns  the  militia  that  had  not  been  in 
the  action  were  brought  together  and  by  the  time  the  British 
had  destroyed  the  obstructions  to  the  navigation  of  the  river 
a  respectable  force  was  again  under  the  Clintons'  command 
on  the  west  shore.  On  the  eastern  side  Putnam  was  pro- 
tecting the  army  stores  at  Fishkill  and  at  points  above. 

While  the  British  were  removing  the  obstructions  to  navi- 
gation and  awaiting  the  return  of  a  reconnoitering  party  which 
started  up  the  river  on  the  nth.  General  Clinton  was  collect- 
ing his  little  force  at  New  Windsor. 

On  the  loth,  one  Daniel  Taylor  was  arrested  near  the  camp. 
He  was  a  bearer  of  a  message  from  the  British  General  Sir 
Henry  Clinton,  to  Burgoyne,  then  sorely  pressed  by  General 
Gates  at  Saratoga,  although  Sir  Henry  was  not  aware  of  Bur- 
goyne's  sorry  plight. 

"The  letter  from  Clinton  to  Burgoyne,"  writes  General 
George  Clinton,  "was  enclosed  in  a  small  silver  ball  of  an  oval 
form  about  the  size  of  a  fusee  bullet,  and  shut  with  a  screw 
in  the  middle.  When  he  was  taken  and  brought  before  me  he 
swallowed  it.  I  mistrusted  this  to  be  the  case  from  informa- 
tion I  received  and  administered  to  him  a  very  strong  emetic 
calculated  to  act  either  way.  This  had  the  desired  effect ;  it 
brought  it  from  him;  but  though  closely  watched  he  had  the 
art  to  conceal  it  a  second  time. 

"I  made  him  believe  I  had  taken  one  from  Capt.  Campbell, 
another  messenger  who  was  on  the  same  business ;  that  I 
learned  from  him  all  I  wanted  to  know,  and  demanded  the 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  337 

ball  on  pain  of  being  hung  up  instantly  and  cut  open  to  search 
for  it.     This  brought  it  forth." 

The  contents  of  this  letter  are  as  follows : 

"Fort  Montgomery,  Oct.  8,  1777. 

"Nous  y  void  (here  we  are)  and  nothing  now  between  us 
but  Gates.  I  sincerely  hope  this  little  success  of  ours  may 
facilitate  your  operations.  In  answer  to  your  letter  of  the 
28th  Sept.  by  C.  C.  I  can  only  say  I  cannot  presume  to  order, 
or  even  advise  for  reasons  obvious.  I  heartily  wish  you 
success.  Faithfully  yours, 

"Gen.  Burgoyne.  H.  Clinton." 

Dr.  Moses  Higby,  residing  at  New  Windsor,  administered 
the  emetic  which  afforded  such  convincing  proof  of  Taylor's 
employment.  Many  interesting  facts  concerning  the  curious 
personality  of  the  doctor  will  be  found  in  Eager's  History  of 
Orange  County. 

On  October  14th,  a  general  court  martial  met  for  the  trial 
of  Taylor  by  order  of  General  Clinton.  The  following  docu- 
ment from  the  "Clinton  papers"  gives  the  names  of  those  con- 
stituting the  court  and  is  an  official  record  of  the  proceedings : 

"At  a  general  court  martial  held  at  the  Heights  of  New 
Windsor  the  14th  of  October,  1777,  by  order  of  Brigadier 
General  George  Clinton,  whereof  Colonel  Lewis  Dubois  was 
President : 

Major  Bradford,  Capt.  Galespie, 

Maj.  Huntington,  "      Conklin, 

Capt.  Savage,  "      Wood, 

"      Watson  "      Hamtramk, 

"      Wyllis,  "      Lee, 

"      Ellis,  "      Huested. 


338  HISTORY  OF  NEJV  FALTZ 

(In  Eager's  Orange  County,  it  is  stated  that  John  \\'ood- 
worth  was  Judge  Advocate.) 

"Daniel  Taylor,  charged  with  lurking  about  the  camp  as  a 
spy  from  the  enemy,  confined  by  order  of  General  Clinton,  was 
brought  before  said  court,  and  to  the  above  crime  the  prisoner 
plead  not  guilty,  but  confessed  his  being  an  express  from  Gen. 
Clinton  to  Gen.  Burgoyne,  when  taken.  And  that  he  had  been 
employed  as  an  express  also,  from  Gen.  Burgoyne  to  Gen. 
Clinton,  and  was  taken  in  the  Camp  of  the  Army  of  the  United 
States,  near  New  Windsor,  by  Lieut.  Howe.  Taylor  likewise 
confessed  his  being  a  first  Lieutenant  in  Capt.  Stewart's  Com- 
pany in  the  9th  regiment  of  the  British  Troops,  and  but  one 
man  in  company  when  taken.  The  prisoner  plead  that  he  was 
not  employed  as  a  spy,  but  on  the  contrary  was  charged  both 
by  Gen.  Clinton  and  Gen.  Burgoyne  not  to  come  near  our 
camp;  but  meeting  accidentally  with  some  of  our  troops  in 
British  uniform,  he  was  thereby  deceived  and  discovered  him- 
self to  them. 

"The  court  after  considering  the  case,  were  of  the  opinion 
that  the  prisoner  is  guilty  of  the  charge  brought  against  him 
and  adjudged  him  to  suffer  death,  to  be  hanged  at  such  time 
and  place  as  the  General  shall  direct. 

A  true  copy  of  the  proceedings : 

Test.  Lewis  Dubois,  Col. 

President." 

When  the  little  anny  of  Governor  Clinton  moved  down  the 
Wallkill  on  the  15th.  to  save  Kingston,  Taylor  was  taken  along, 
his  name  appearing  every  day  in  the  guard  reports.  A  general 
order  issued  on  the  morning  of  the  destruction  of  Kingston, 
determined  his  fate. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  339 

It  was  not,  however,  carried  into  effect  on  the  17th,  as 
directed;  no  doubt  the  attention  of  the  troops  was  taken  up 
with  matters  at  Kingston.  He  was  still  under  guard  on  the 
morning  of  the  i8th,  after  which  his  name  ceases- to  trouble 
the  officer  in  charge. 

In  a  MS.  journal  kept  by  a  person  in  Clinton's  force,  prob- 
ably a  chaplain,  is  this  entry : 

"October  i8th,  Saturday,  Mr.  Taylor,  a  spy  taken  in  Little 
Britain,  was  hung  here.  Mr.  Romain  and  myself  attended  him 
yesterday,  and  I  have  spent  the  morning  in  discoursing  to  him, 
and  attended  him  at  the  gallows.  He  did  not  appear  to  be 
either  a  political  or  gospel  penitent." 

Tradition  has  it  that  Taylor  was  hanged  on  an  apple  tree 
near  the  village  of  Hurley. 

Having  anticipated  somewhat,  in  order  to  keep  the  story  of 
the  capture,  trial  and  execution  of  Taylor  together,  we  must 
now  go  back.  The  British  reconnoitering  party,  which  started 
on  the  nth  of  October,  ascended  the  river  to  within  three 
miles  of  Poughkeepsie  and  returned  in  safety,  having  burned 
several  buildings  and  old  vessels  along  the  shore.  The  report 
favored  an  advance  of  the  whole  force  which  accordingly 
started  from  Peekskill  October  14th. 

On  October  15th,  at  nine  o'clock  a.  m.,  General  George 
Clinton  wrote  to  Kingston  from  Headquarters  near  New  Wind- 
sor that  twenty  sail  of  the  enemy's  shipping  had  been  dis- 
covered in  the  river  below  Butter  Hill  (Storm  King).  After 
speaking  of  matters  which  need  not  here  be  recapitulated,  the 
letter  proceeds  as  follows : 

"Since  w^riting  the  above  the  enemy's  fleet  consisting  of 
thirty  sail  have  passed  Newburgh  and  with  crowded  sail  and 
and  fair  wind  are  moving  quick  up  the  river ;  the  front  of  them 


340  HISTORY  OF  XEJV  PALTZ 

are  already  at  the  Danskaninier.  There  are  eight  large  square- 
rigged  vessels  among  them  and  all  appear  to  have  troops  on 
board.  ]My  troops  are  parading  to  march  to  Kingston.  Our 
route  will  be  through  Shawangunk  to  prevent  delay  in  crossing 
the  Paltz  (W'allkill)  river.  I  leave  Col.  Woodhull's,  AIc- 
Claughry's  and  part  of  Hasbrouck's  regiment  as  a  guard  along 
the  river.  *  *  *  i  -^yjn  be  with  you  if  nothing  extra  hap- 
pens before  day ;    though  my  troop  cannot." 

What  a  thrilling  sight  it  must  have  been  to  see  thirty  vessels, 
eight  of  them  square-rigged,  crowded  with  troops  whose  gay 
uniforms  vied  with  the  gaudy  splendors  of  an  American  autumn 
sailing  in  a  compact  mass  with  colors  flying,  sails  distended, 
waves  dancing  and  sparkling  as  the  great  flotilla  moves 
through  Xewburgh  Bay  and  Danskammer  Point.  This  is  a 
picture  over  which  the  imagination  lingers,  especially  with 
those  whose  good  fortune  it  has  been  to  have  seen  at  the  cor- 
responding season,  the  georgeous  ampitheatre  within  which  this 
scene  was  set. 

The  force  which  moved  wnth  Geo.  Clinton  in  his  effort  to 
prevent  the  burning  of  Kingston  was  about  1,000  men,  com- 
posed of  the  skeleton  regiments  of  Cols.  Lewis  Dubois,  Webb, 
Sutherland  and  Ellison,  with  a  part  of  Hasbrouck's,  and  what 
remained  of  Lamb's  artillery.  Only  a  portion  of  the  advance 
guard  got  near  enough  to  Kingston  to  behold  the  village  in 
flames  and  the  enemy  retiring  to  his  shipping. 

The  British  reached  the  landing  place  for  Kingston  on  the 
evening  of  the  15th,  the  town  being  burned  on  the  i6th.  On 
the  way  up  they  fired  their  cannon  at  the  houses  of  known 
rebels  on  either  shore.  Attention  was  paid  to  the  house  of  Col. 
Dubois,  which,  although  not  in  sight  of  the  river,  was  within 
easy  cannon  shot  of  it,  the  firing  point  being  selected  from  the 
mouth  of  a  brook  emptying  into  the  river,  which  was  within 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  341 

close  range  of  the  house.  This  cannonade  was  harmless,  but 
that  the  intention  of  the  firing  party  was  serious  is  evidenced 
by  the  cannon  balls  which  have  from  time  to  time  been  dug 
out  of  a  bank  of  earth  a  short  distance  west  of  the  house. 
One  of  these,  weighing  245^  pounds  and  the  heaviest  among  a 
large  collection,  is  now  deposited  at  Washington's  Headquarters 
in  Newburgh. 

General  Clinton's  little  army  was  still  at  Hurley  on  October 
20th,  as  appears  by  the  report  of  the  Officer  of  the  Day. 

Ruttenber  says  : 

"During  the  winter  of  1777-8,  Dubois'  regiment  was  in  bar- 
racks at  Fishkill.  Its  condition  there  was  deplorable.  In  Jan- 
uary, 1778,  General  Putnam  writes,  'Dubois'  regiment  is  unfit 
to  be  ordered  on  duty,  there  being  not  one  blanket  in  the  regi- 
ment. Very  few  have  either  a  shoe  or  a  shirt  and  most  of 
them  have  neither  stockings,  breeches  or  overalls.  Chastellux 
writes  that  many  were  absolutely  naked,  being  only  covered 
by  straw  suspended  from  the  waist.  The  losses  in  stores  at 
Fort  Montgomery  brought  on  this  destitution  very  largely. 
It  did  not  continue  long  after  Putnam  called  Gov.  Clinton's 
attention  to  it.'  " 

"In  July,  1778,  the  five  New  York  regiments  were  brigaded 
under  Gen.  James  Clinton." 

This  brigade  took  a  very  active  part  in  the  expedition  against 
the  Indians  in  the  western  part  of  this  State  in  1779.  General 
Sullivan  w^ith  the  main  body  of  the  army,  which  did  not  in- 
clude Clinton's  brigade,  started  from  the  vicinity  of  Easton, 
Pennsylvania,  and  penetrated  the  wilderness  to  the  vicinity  of 
Elmira.  Gen.  Clinton's  force  included,  besides  his  own  bri- 
gade, some  regiments  from  other  states,  the  whole  command 
amounting  to  about  t,6oo  men. 


342  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

The  roster  of  the  Fifth  New  York  regiment  on  this  expe- 
dition was  as  follows : 

Lewis  DuboiS;  Col. 

Henry  Dubois,  Adjt.  and  Col. 

Henry  Dodge,  Adjt.  and  Lieut. 

Michael  Connolly,  Paymaster  and  2nd  Lieut. 

James  Johnston,  O.  M.  and  Ensign. 

Samuel  Cooke,  Surgeon. 

Ebenezer  Hutchinson,  Surgeon's  Mate. 

James  Rosekrans,  Capt. 

John  F.  Hamtranck,  Capt. 

John  Johnson,  Capt. 

Philip  DuBois  Bevier,  Capt. 

James  Stewart,  Capt. 

Henry  W.  Vanderburgh,  Lieut. 

Daniel  Birdsall,  2nd  Lieut. 

James  Betts,  2nd  Lieut. 

Barthal  Vanderburgh,  Ensign. 

Francis  Hanmer,  Ensign. 

Henry  Vanderburgh,  Ensign. 

About  the  middle  of  June,  1779,  Clinton,  in  order  to  join 
Sullivan,  began  transporting  his  force  from  the  Mohawk  river 
by  the  way  of  Canajoharie  and  Springfield  to  Lake  Otsego, 
the  headwaters  of  the  Susquehanna. 

On  this  part  of  the  trip  we  catch  a  glimpse  of  Col.  DuBois 
in  the  following  extract  from  the  diary  of  Lieut.  Beatty  of 
the  4th  Penna.  Line,  part  of  Clinton's  force. 

Monday,  June  28,  1779.  "This  day  the  Col,  and  a  number 
of  officers  with  m}self  went  to  see  Col.  Dubois  and  his  officers 
who  were  encamped  at  Low's  Grove  on  the  upper  landing, 
found  them  all  very  well  and  they  provided  a  very  good  dinner 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  343 

for  us  suitable  to  the  place  and  time,  there  was  about  fifty 
officers  dined  together.  After  dinner  we  had  a  song  or  two 
from  different  officers  and  returned  home  a  little  before  sun- 
down. We  were  all  very  sociable  at  dinner  and  spent  our 
time  with  the  officers  very  agreeable." 

Clinton  remained  at  Lake  Otsego  from  the  3d  of  July  to  the 
9th  of  August  awaiting  orders  from  Gen.  Sullivan.  When 
these  orders  came  Clinton  moved  forward  and  effected  a  junc- 
tion with  Sullivan.  In  organizing  for  the  fighting  and  devas- 
tation which  followed,  the  hazardous  position  of  commanding 
the  right  flank  was  assigned  to  Col.  Dubois,  who  had  under 
him  two  companies  of  the  German  battalion  and  200  picked 
men  in  addition.  The  army  of  Sullivan  far  outnumbered  that 
of  the  Indians  under  the  celebrated  Chief  Brant,  aided  by  a  few 
British  regulars  and  tories.  The  enemy  made  but  one  serious 
effort  to  check  the  invaders.  Behind  a  hastily  constructed 
rampart,  in  the  vicinity  of  Elmira,  they  made  a  stand,  but  were 
soon  driven  away.  In  this  engagement  Col.  Dubois  partici- 
pated. The  victorious  army  then  turned  northward,  and  car- 
ried out  the  purpose  of  the  expedition  by  burning  many  vil- 
lages and  destroying  all  food  supplies.  It  was  a  work  of 
devastation,  and  many  there  be  that  say  the  measure  was  un- 
necessarily harsh.  Be  that  as  it  may,  the  power  of  the  Indians 
in  this  State  was  broken  by  this  expedition  of  Gen.  Sullivan. 

Lewis  Dubois  resigned  his  commission  as  colonel  December 
29,  1779.  This  seems'  to  have  been  brought  about  by  the 
dwindling  of  all  the  regiments  in  the  New  York  brigade,  for 
in  the  subsequent  year  the  ist  and  3rd  regiments  were  consoli- 
dated into  one  regiment,  known  as  the  ist,  under  Col.  Van 
Schaick,  and  the  2nd,  4th  and  5th  and  Col.  Livingston's  regi- 
ment into  another,  known  as  the  2nd,  under  Col.  Philip  Van 
Cortlandt. 


344  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

There  remains  for  consideration  such  information  as  could 
be  gathered  concerning'  the  descendants  of  the  children  of  Col, 
Lewis  Dubois! 

I — Nathaniel  Dubois,  his  first  child,  died  April  i8,  1788,  in 
the  30th  year  of  his  age.  He  left  one  daughter,  Hannah,  who 
was  his  only  child.     Nothing  is  known  of  her  history. 

2 — Wilhelmus  lived  and  died  on  the  tract  of  land  near  Marl- 
borough village,  given  to  him  by  his  father's  will.  It  ran  from 
the  village  to  the  road  known  as  West  street  and  along  the  latter. 
His  wife  was  ]\Iary  Hudson.  They  had  four  children,  John, 
Cornelius,  Elizabeth  and  Nathaniel. 

John  married  Rebecca  Wygant  and  had  four  children.  Wil- 
liam, Matthew  Wygant,   Maria  and  Ann  Eliza. 

Cornelius  had  three  wives  and  ten  children.  Alary,  Elizabeth, 
Sarah,  Deborah  Ann,  Jane,  Caroline,  Charlotte,  Daniel  Asa 
and  Ann  Amelia. 

Elizabeth  married  John  W.  Wygant  and  had  seven  children, 
William  D.,  Asa,  Cornelius.  Ostrom,  Mary  Jane,  J.  Ward  and 
Elizabeth. 

Nathaniel  married  Deborah  Ann  Bloomer  and  had  eleven 
children,  Fletcher,  Charles  Augustus,  Elizabeth  Wygant,  Mary 
Louisa,  Eugene,  Hudson,  Emma,  Ann  Amelia,  Theron,  Luther 
and  Dallas. 

3 — Mary,  the  first  daughter,  married  Asa  Steward.  She  was 
living  in  the  town  of  Minisink  as  late  as  181 1.  She  had  two 
daughters,  Elizabeth  and  Margaret. 

4 — Rachel,  the  first  daughter  by  his  second  wife,  married  Cor- 
nelius  Low,  by  whom  she  had  one  daughter,  Cornelia,  born 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  345 

]\larch  5,   1792.     Rachel  Low  died  November  6,  1793,  in  her 
23rd  year. 

Nothing  is  known  of  the  career  of  her  daughter,  CorneUa 
Low.  CorneHus  Low  is  said  to  have  been  a  prominent  man  of 
Kingston  and  to  have  taken  up,  with  others,  large  tracts  of 
land  in  Wawarsing. 

5 — Lewis  (4)  was  born  December  20,  1774,  and  was  bap- 
tized at  New  Marlborough  by  Rev.  Samson  Occum.  He  was 
married  to  Annie  Hull,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  Hull.  January 
3,  1809.  She  was  born  February  15,  1787.  He  died  August 
22,   1831.     His  children  were  as  follows: 

Rachel  Margaret,  born  October  i,  1809.  married  to  Lewis 
W.  Young  June  28.  1827.  She  died  at  Newburgh  March  21, 
1890.     Her  children  were  Juliet,  Henrietta  and  Jas.  Henry. 

Lewis  (5),  born  June  28,  1811,  married  Jane  Thorn.  He 
died  December  11,  1854.  He  had  one  child,  a  son  named 
Charles,  who  died  about  1870,  leaving  issue. 

Amanda,  born  January  25,  1813,  married  Samuel  Harris  in 
183 1.  She  died  October  25,  1875.  Mr.  Harris  purchased  the 
Dubois  homestead  at  a  partition  sale  held  in  1842,  and  his  son 
William  now  resides  on  it.  The  children  of  Samuel  Harris 
and  Amanda  Dubois  Harris  were  Francis,  Emily,  Ida,  Jessie 
and  William. 

Melissa,  born  May  20,  1814,  married  William  C.  Goddard 
and  died  March,  1892.  She  lived  in  Brooklyn,  New  York, 
after  her  marriage.  Her  children  were  Edward,  William, 
Emily  and  Adeline. 

Nathaniel  Hull,  born  December  27,  181 5.  He  had  two  chil- 
dren, a  son  Solomon,  who  died  in  infancy,  and  a  daughter, 
Julia  Ferris.     He  is  still  living  at  Marlborough,  Ulster  county. 


346  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Elizabeth,  born  June  i,  1817,  died  August  17,  1819. 

Daniel  Lockwood,  born  August  29,  1819,  died  July  6,  1862. 
Never  married'^. 

Clementine  Williams,  born  June  4,  1821,  married  January 
14,  1845,  to  Reuben  H.  Rohrer,  of  Lancaster,  Pa.,  where  she 
lived  and  died.  Her  children  were  four  sons,  Dubois,  Reuben 
S.,  Leland  and  Mifflin. 

Cornelia  Bruyn,  born  November  9,  1822,  married  May  6, 
1840,  to  Nathaniel  Deyo,  M.  D.  She  died  at  Newburgh,  De- 
cember 16,  1876.  Her  children,  who  lived  to  maturity,  were 
Evelina,  Robert  Emmet,  Frank  DeWitt,  Nathaniel  Dubois, 
John,  Van  Zandt  and  Cornelia  Ann. 

Daniel  Lockwood  (2),  born  August  29,  1819,  died  July  6, 
1862,  unmarried. 

Anna,  born  November  18,  1826,  married  June  16,  185 1,  to 
Henry  E.  Leman,  of  Lancaster,  Pa.,  where  she  died  April  22, 
1873.  Her  children  were  Henry  E.,  Samuel  W.,  Adelia,  Lewis 
D.  and  James  C. 

Marcus  Dougherty,  born  June  4,  1828,  now  living  at  New 
Windsor,  Orange  count}',  unmarried. 

6 — Margaret,  born  January  29,  1776,  and  was  baptized  at 
New  Marlborough  by  Rev.  Mr.  Carr  from  Goshen.  She  died 
May  6,  1855. 

She  married  Daniel  Lockwood  about  1790  and  had — 

Rachel  Lockwood,  born  xA.ugust  26,  1792,  and  died  Decem- 
ber 29,  1793. 

Lewis  D.  Lockwood,  born  August  8,  1794;  died  May  3, 
1874. 

Daniel  Lockwood,  born  August  8,  1797. 

Eli  T.  Lockwood,  born  April  14,  1800;  died  January  27,  1848. 

Charles  Lockwood,  born  November  17,  1802;  died  July  i, 
1829. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  347 

Nathaniel  D.  Lockwood,  born  February  6,  1804;  "was 
drowned  on  fast  day,"  January  12,  181 5. 

Daniel  Lockwood,  the  first  husband  of  Margaret  Dubois, 
died  November  27,  1804. 

On  August  25,  1 8 14,  she  married  Gen.  Nathaniel  Dubois, 
the  son  of  her  uncle  Zachary,  and  had — 

Isaac  Dubois,  born  July  12,  1815;   died  August,  18,  1876. 

Edwin  Lockwood  Dubois,  born  October  2,  1817;  died  Feb- 
ruary 5,  i860. 


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HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 


THE    OLD    FREER    HOUSE    AT    NEW    PALTZ 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  349 

CHAPTER  XXX 

The  Freer  Family  at  New  Paltz 

The  Freer  family  of  New  Paltz  and  elsewhere  in  the  United 
States  is  descended  from  Hugo  Freer,  one  of  the  New  Paltz 
patentees. 

Hugo  was  one  of  the  last  of  the  little  band  to  arrive  at 
Kingston.  There  is  no  mention  of  his  name  previous  to  the 
purchase  of  the  New  Paltz  patent  from  the  Indians  in  1677. 
He  probably  had  just  arrived  in  the  country  at  that  time. 
He  was  accompanied  by  his  wife,  Mary  Haye,  and  their  three 
eldest  children,  Hugo,  Abraham  and  Isaac. 

In  the  papers  that  have  come  down  to  the  present  time  there 
are  more  in  the  French  language  among  the  descendants  of 
Hugo  Freer  than  of  any  of  the  other  Patentees,  which  seems 
to  indicate  that  he  had  not  been  very  long  absent  from  his 
native  country  when  he  came  to  New  Paltz. 

When  the  church  was  organized  at  New  Paltz  in  1683  Hugo 
Freer  was  chosen  deacon,  and  in  1690  he  was  elder  in  the 
church.  This  would  show  that  he  was  a  man  of  known  piety 
and  excellent  standing  among  the  brethren  in  the  little  com- 
munity. 

Most  of  the  other  settlers  at  New  Paltz  were  related  by 
marriage.  But  neither  Hugo  the  Patentee  nor  any  of  his  chil- 
dren married  New  Paltz  people.  A  good  portion  of  the  chil- 
dren and  grandchildren  of  Hugo  the  Patentee  married  and 
settled  outside  the  bounds  of  the  New  Paltz  patent,  going  to 
Kingston,  to  Dutchess  county  and  elsewhere.  Still  among  his 
numerous  descendants  many  remained  at  New  Paltz. 

During  the  first  century  after  the  settlement  there  was  per- 


350  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

haps  no  family  that  furnished  a  larger  proportion  of  eminent 
men  than  the  descendants  of  Hugo  Freer  the  Patentee. 

The  Freers-  of  colonial  days  had  means  and  piety  as  well. 
The  Bontecoe  Freers,  cultivating  the  lowlands  on  the  Wallkill 
in  the  great  bend  of  the  stream,  above  Dashville  Falls,  would 
walk  barefoot  five  miles  to  church  at  New  Paltz  in  summer, 
putting  on  their  shoes  when  near  the  village.  But  when  the 
time  came  to  put  up  the  new  stone  church  in  1772,  the  Freer 
family  contributed  considerably  more  than  one-fourth  of  the 
whole  amount  needed,  and  two  of  the  name  served  on  the 
building  committee. 

Tradition  states  that  one  year  the  Freers  paid  the  whole 
amount  of  the  quit  rent  due  from  the  New  Paltz  settlers  to 
the  colonial  government  and  in  return  received  200  acres  of 
land  at  Mud  Hook,  near  the  north  west  corner  of  the  New 
Paltz  Patent. 

In  the  Revolutionary  war  the  Freers  furnished  a  large  number 
of  officers  and  men,  the  list  including  Col.  John  Freer  and  Capt. 
Jacobus  Freer  of  Dutchess  county  and  Lieuts.  Daniel  Freer 
and  Anthony  Freer  of  Ulster,  also  about  a  score  of  private 
soldiers. 

At  the  commencement  of  the  last  century  Samuel  Freer  of 
Kingston  was  for  many  years  a  noted  newspaper  man,  editing 
the  Gazette.  If  not  the  very  first,  he  is  at  least  the  best  re- 
membered editor  of  the  first  quarter  of  the  last  century.  He 
used  to  carry  his  papers  on  horseback  to  his  patrons  at  New 
Paltz  and  elsewhere,  and  it  is  related  that  when  asked  if  he  had 
news  to  tell  would  answer  in  Dutch.  "Always  news  when  the 
paper  comes." 

In  the  second  war  with  England,  Capt.  Zachary  Freer  of  New 
Paltz  served  as  a  captain,  his  regiment  being  stationed  on 
Long  Island. 


HISTORY  OF  NEJV  PALTZ  351 

The  Freers  left  the  village  at  an  early  date.  Not  a  single 
tombstone  bearing  the  name  or  initials  of  any  member  of  the 
family  is  to  be  found  in  the  old  graveyard  here.  The  old  home- 
stead in  this  village  passed  from  Hugo  Freer,  senior,  son  of 
the  Patentee,  to  his  son-in-law,  Johannis  Low,  whose  de- 
scendants occupied  it  for  a  long  time. 

The  Freers  scattered  widely  during  the  colonial  period,  and 
for  that  reason  it  has  been  difficult  to  trace  their  history.  The 
family  was  most  numerous  at  Bontecoe.  The  old  graveyard 
there  is  probably  next  to  that  in  this  village  the  oldest  in  the 
Patent.  Among  the  Bontecoe  Freers  the  name  of  their  an- 
cestor Hugo  was  continued  from  generation  to  generation,  but 
has  now  died  out  and  the  last  Hugo  in  this  vicinity  died  at 
his  home  at  Bontecoe  at  a  good  old  age  about  1850. 

In  the  old  days  it  was  not  customary  for  laymen  to  take  part 
in  the  services  in  church.  It  is  stated  that  the  only  man  to 
raise  his  voice  in  public  prayer  in  the  New  Paltz  church 
at  about  1820  was  Jonathan  Freer  of  the  Ohioville  neigh- 
borhood. 

None  of  the  Freers  of  the  early  days  were  merchants,  as  fai 
as  we  know,  and  none  of  them  made  or  sold  whiskey,  that  we 
are  aware  of. 

The  Freer  homestead  in  this  village  is  the  northernmost  of 
the  old  stone  houses  on  Huguenot  street.  It  is  still  occupied 
as  a  residence,  is  in  a  good  state  of  repair  and  has  not  been 
changed  much  since  the  olden  times,  except  that  the  great 
beams  have  been  cut  down  and  there  is  no  longer  a  great  fire- 
place. The  house  is  about  40  feet  in  length  and  35  in  width, 
including  a  small,  frame  addition  in  the  rear. 

Hugo  Freer,  the  Patentee,  was  twice  married,  his  first  wife 
being  Mary  Haye  and  the  second  Jannitje  Wibau.  The  chil- 
dren of  Hugo,  the  Patentee,  were :    Hugo,  Senior,  Abraham, 


352  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Isaac  (who  died  when  i8  years  old),  Jacob,  Jean,  Mary  and 
Sarah.  The  first  named  daughter  married  Lewis  Viele  of 
Schenectady,  and  the  other  married  Tennis  Clausen  Van  Volgen 
of  the  same  place.  The  three  eldest  sons  of  Hugo,  the  Paten- 
tee, located  at  New  Paltz  and  Jean  moved  to  Kingston. 

]\Iary,  the  daughter  of  Hugo  the  Patentee  and  wife  of  Lewis 
Viele  of  Schenectady,  sold  her  one-sixth  part  of  her  father's 
estate  to  her  brother  Hugo  for  £83,  as  is  shown  by  a  document 
dated  17 10,  which  among  many  other  papers  of  Hugo  Freer, 
Senior,  has  come  down  to  the  present  day  and  is  now  in  the 
possession  of  the  writer. 

Jean  Freer,  son  of  the  Patentee,  who  had  located  at  Kings- 
ton, also  sold  to  his  brother  Hugo,  Senior,  his  share,  one-sixth 
part,  of  the  estate  of  their  father.  The  sale  was  made  in  1713 
and  the  price  paid  was  iSo. 

Hugo,  Senior,  Son  of  Hugo,  Patentee 

Hugo,  Senior,  eldest  son  of  the  Patentee,  was  married  in 
1690  to  Mary  LeRoy,  by  Rev.  Pierre  Dailie. 

In  June,  171 5,  Hugo,  Senior,  and  his  sons,  Hugo,  Junior, 
Isaac  and  Simon,  who  moved  to  Dutchess  county,  obtained  a 
patent  for  1,200  acres  of  land  about  three  miles  south  east  of 
this  village  and  near  the  Paltz  patent.  On  this  tract  Isaac 
located  and  it  has  come  down  in  his  family  to  the  present  day. 

Hugo,  Senior's,  name  appears  in  the  list  of  those  who  built 
the  first  stone  church,  in  1720,  and  he  and  his  eldest  son,  Hugo, 
Junior,  are  assigned  seats  in  the  church.  In  the  list  of  free- 
holders in  1728  appear  the  names  of  his  sons  Hugo,  Junior, 
and  Isaac. 

From  the  "New  Paltz  Orders"  in  1710  it  is  evident  that 
Hugo,  Senior,  resided  in  the  northern  part  of  the  village.     The 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  353 

exact  location  and  other  facts  are  set  forth  in  a  release  granted 
to  his  13  children  in  1732  as  follows : 

This  indenture  made  the  29th  day  June,  in  the  sixth  year  of 
the  reign  of  our  sovereign,  George  the  second,  by  the  grace 
of  God,  of  Great  Britain  France  and  Ireland,  king,  defender  of 
the  faith,  &c.,  Anno  Domini,  1732,  between  Hugo  Freer  senior, 
of  the  New  Paltz,  in  the  county  of  Ulster  and  province  of  New 
York,  yeoman,  of  the  first  part,  and  Hugo  junior,  Isaac,  Simon, 
Jonah,  Mary  wife  of  Isaac  LeFevre,  Sarah  wife  of  Evert  Ter- 
williger,  Esther  wife  of  John  Terpening,  Catharine  wife  of 
Isaac  Van  Wagonen,  Dina  wife  of  Michael  Van  Kleeck^ 
Rachel  wife  of  Hendrick  TerBoss,  Janitje,  Rebecca  (after- 
wards wife  of  Johannes  Low)  and  Elizabeth  all  of  them 
sons  and  daughters  of  Hugo  Freer  senior  of  the  other 
part,  witnesseth,  that  in  consideration  of  the  sum  of  five 
shillings,  current  money  of  New  York  to  him  in  hand  paid 
by  the  said  13  children  he  hath  granted  to  the  said  4  sons 
and  9  daughters  all  that  certain  lot  of  land  in  the  New  Paltz 
Patent,  near  the  north  end  of  the  town  (village)  of  New 
Paltz,  on  the  east  side  of  the  street^  being  bounded  to  the 
west  by  the  street  aforesaid,  to  the  south  by  the  house  lot 
of  Daniel  Hasbrouck,  to  the  east  by  Andries  Lefever,  to  the 
north  by  the  said  Andries  Lefever  and  the  street  aforesaid, 
together  with  all  buildings,  houses,  barns,  stables,  yards,  gar- 
dens, orchards  and  other  improvements ;  also  all  that  other 
certain  piece  of  land  lying  and  being  within  the  limits  an^ 
bounds  of  the  New  Paltz,  bounded  to  the  east  by  the  said  street, 
to  the  south  by  the  house  lots  of  Daniel  DuBois,  to  the  west 
by  the  said  lots  in  Wassamakos  land,  and  to  the  north  by  lot 
of  Mattys  Sleght,  and  also  all  that  other  lot  or  piece  of  ground 
being  a  lot  which  the  said  Hugo  Freer  senior  hath  purchased 


354  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

of  Anthony  Crispell,  deceased  lying  on  the  east  side  of  said 
street,  being  bounded  to  the  west  by  the  street  aforesaid,  to  the 
south  by  a  lot  of  Andries  Lefever,  to  the  east  by  the  said  An- 
dries  Lefever  and  to  the  north  by  a  lane  that  leads  to  Daniel 
Hasbrouck's  mill ;  also  all  that  certain  lot  lying  in  the  great 
pature  within  the  bounds  of  the  patent  of  New  Paltz  bounded 
on  the  west  by  the  road  that  leads  to  Walravens  bourey,  to  the 
south  by  a  lot  of  John  Terpening,  to  the  east  by  the  Paltz 
common  or  undivided  lands,  and  to  the  north  by  a  lot  of  Daniel 
DuBois,  and  also  all  that  four-sixth  the  parts  of  him  the  said 
Hugo  Freer,  senior  of  the  one-twelfth  part  of  the  undivided 
lands  there  now  are  lying  undivided  and  in  common  within  the 
limits  and  bounds  of  the  Patent  of  New  Paltz  aforesaid,  which 
was  granted  by  the  said  letters  patent  unto  Hugo  Freer,  de- 
ceased, together  with  all  ponds,  pools,  etc.,  etc.,  *  *  yield- 
ing and  paying  therefor  unto  the  said  Hugo  Freer  senior  his 
heirs  or  assigns  the  rent  of  one  pepper  corn  only  on  the  first 
day  of  May  next  ensuing  if  demanded.     *     *     *     * 

Hugo  Freer,  Senior, 
his  mark. 

The  most  extensive  and  interesting  collection  of  papers  in 
archaic  French  that  has  come  down  to  the  present  day  is  that 
once  the  property  of  Hugo  Freer,  Senior,  which  has  come  down 
in  the  family  of  his  son  Jonah,  and  passed  from  father  to  son 
in  that  family. 

An  Ancient  and  Interesting  Letter 

Perhaps  the  most  interesting  document  in  the  Freer  collection 
-bf  ancient  papers  is  a  letter  written  in  1699  to  Mrs.  Hugo  Freer, 
Sen.,  by  her  uncle,  Jean  Giron  of  Quebec,  now  framed  in  glass 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z 


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LETTER  FROM   JEAN   GIRON   TO    HUGO   FREER^    SR.,   AND    WIFE 


356  HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z 

and  deposited  in  the  Memorial  House.  Through  the  kindness 
of  Mr.  Alfred  LeRoy  Becker  of  Buffalo  we  are  enabled  to 
publish  a  full  translation.  Mr.  Becker  writes  concerning  this 
letter : 

"It  is  addressed  to  'My  nephew  Huge  and  my  niece  Huge' 
by  which  the  writer  means  Hugo  Freer,  Sr.,  son  of  the  patentee, 
and  his  wife,  Marie  Anne  LeRoy,  whom  he  married,  according 
to  the  record  of  the  New  Paltz  church,  June  7,  1690.  The 
letter  was  written  nine  years  later,  but  news  of  the  marriage 
had  apparently  only  just  reached  the  writer.  The  letter  is 
written  in  a  fair  if  cramped  hand,  but  it  shows  an  almost  total 
lack  of  knowledge  of  how  to  spell,  so  that  it  has  been  extremely 
difficult  to  make  the  translation  which  is  eiven  herewith. 


De  quebet  Le  tme  aouiest  1699. 

Mon  niueur  (neveu)  huge  Et  ma  niesse  huge. 

Jes  (J'ai)  bien  hu  (eu)  de  la  Joies  davoier  resu  une  lestre 
De  vous  par  laquelle  vous  memandes  que  vous  Este  bien 
maries  Jeannoris  (J'en  aurais)  ancore  (encore)  bein  plus 
si  ses  toy  (c'estoit)  que  vous  fusies  maries  a  notre  religion 
si  sestoy  (c'estoit)  p  *  *  *  *  *  (hole  in  MS.  Should 
"par  le"  be  supplied?)  Constanteman  (consentment)  de  votre 
beauperre  Et  bellemerre  (.)  vous  me  mandes  que  votre  perre 
Et  votre  merre  mon  EsCrit  (m'ont  escrit)  mes  Je  ne  nannes 
poien  ou  (Je  n'en  ai  point  eu?)  de  nouuelle  (.)  Je  vous  pris  (,) 
si  vous  trouues  Do  Cazion  (D'occasion)  de  nous  mande  Car 
nous  serion  bien  hesze  (aise)  de  savoier  de  vous  nouuelle  (,) 
moy  Et  votre  tante  (.)  votre  frere  Et  votre  berleseur  (belles- 
oeur)  vous  salus  Et  moy  Et  votre  tante  nous  vous  saluon  Je 
demeure  votre  seruiteur    Jean  giron. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  357 

Translation. 

Quebec,  August  17th,  1699. 
My  nephew  Huge  and  my  niece  Huge : 

I  have  indeed  been  rejoiced  to  have  received  a  letter  from 
you  by  which  you  inform  me  that  you  are  well  married.  I 
should  be  still  more  rejoiced  if  it  was  that  you  were  married 
in  our  religion,  if  it  was  by  the  consent  of  your  father-in-law 
and  mother-in-law.  (That  is,  if  by  the  consent  of  Hugo  Freer's 
father  and  mother,  she  was  married  to  him  according  to  the 
forms  of  the  Catholic  church.)  You  inform  me  that  your 
father  and  mother  have  written  me,  but  I  have  had  no  news  of 
them  whatever.  I  beg  of  you,  if  you  find  occasion,  to  write  to 
us,  for  we  should  be  very  glad  to  have  news  of  you, — your 
aunt  and  I.  Your  brother  and  your  sister  salute  you  and  your 
aunt  and  I,  we  salute  you.     I  remain,  your  servant, 

Jean  giron. 

"Jean  Giron  came  from  France  to  Canada  and  bought  a  farm 
on  the  River  St.  Charles,  near  Quebec.  He  married  one  of 
three  orphan  sisters  who  came  to  New  France  in  this  year, 
Madeleine  Des  Chalets.  He  was  from  Creances,  bishopric  of 
Coutances,  in  Manche,  the  long  finger  with  Cherbourg  at  the 
tip  which  points  from  the  north  of  France  into  the  English 
Channel.  In  the  same  year  Simeon  Le  Roy,  who  was  a  master 
carpenter,  bought  land  next  to  his  brother-in-law  on  the  River 
St.  Charles.  He  remained  in  Quebec  until  1679  or  later,  but 
in  1681  he  had  removed  to  Montreal.  While  he  was  in  Canada 
he  appears  to  have  been  a  Catholic,  for  all  his  children  were 
baptized  by  the  priests.     In  1682  he  was  in  Albany,  and  there- 


358  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

after  he  lived  in  Kingston,  where  he  was  as  late  as  170 1.  In 
1704,  however,  he  probably  left  there  and  he  was  a  witness  at 
the  baptism  of  ^  one  of  his  grandchildren  on  Staten  Island,  in 
1706  or  1707.  Through  his  son  Francis  he  was  the  head  of 
the  Le  Roy  family,  originally  of  Dutchess  county,  and  through 
his  son  Leonard,  or  "Jo"^^"  ^s  the  Dutch  called  it,  corrupting 
the  French  sound,  he  was  the  head  of  the  "Laraway"  family, 
originally  of  Schoharie  county.  All  of  his  children,  except 
Jean,  who  is  mentioned  in  the  letter  and  remained  in  Canada, 
married  either  Huguenots  or  Hollanders  and  became  Protes- 
tants." 

In  the  will  of  Hugo  Freer,  Senior,  which  was  written  in 
1728,  a  number  of  years  before  his  death,  he  appointed  his 
brothers,  Abraham,  Jacob  and  Jean,  and  his  friend,  Aart  Van 
Wagenen,  as  executors. 

Nearly  all  of  the  Freers  in  this  vicinity  are  descended  from 
Hugo,  Senior.  His  brother  Jean  went  to  Kingston.  His 
brother  Abraham  lived  in  New  Paltz,  as  we  have  stated,  for  a 
time,  but  his  sons  scattered,  one  going  to  Dutchess  county  and 
another  to  Minnisink.  The  remaining  brother  of  Hugo,  Senior, 
Jacob,  located  on  the  west  side  of  the  Wallkill,  near  the  Bonte- 
coe  school  house  and  his  descendants  lived  in  that  locality  and 
on  the  Rosendale  Plains. 

The  sons  of  Hugo,  Senior,  located  as  follows  :  Hugo,  Junior, 
near  the  north  borders  of  the  patent;  Isaac  on  the  1,200  acre 
tract  obtained  by  patent;  Jonah  at  "Kleyne  Bontecoe,"  at  the 
present  R.  V.  N.  Beaver  place,  near  Springtown.  Simon  went 
to  Dutchess  county.  The  sons  of  Hugo,  Senior,  married  as 
follows:  Hugo,  Junior,  who  was  born  in  1691,  married,  in 
1715,  Bridgen  Terpening;  Isaac,  who  was  born  in  1693,  mar- 
ried, in  1723,  Mary  Deyo,  daughter  of  Pierre  the  Patentee; 
Jonah  married,  in  1727,  Catharine  Stokhard.  who  was  born  in 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  359 

Germany.  Simon  married,  in  1720,  Mariten  Wamboon  at 
Kingston.  The  sons  of  Hugo  Freer,  Junior,  who  married 
Bridgen  Terpening  and  located  at  Bontecoe,  near  the  present 

school  house,   were  Hugo,   who  married  Van   Aken; 

John,  who  married  Hagetta  Deyo,  in  1749;  Benjamin,  who 
married  Elizabeth  Terwilliger,  and  Garret,  who  married  Maria 
Freer,  in  1748.  In  the  list  of  taxpayers  in  1765  we  find  the 
names  of  Hugo  Freer,  Junior,  and  his  sons,  Hugo,  John,  Ben- 
jamin and  Garret.  The  three  first  named  lived  at  Bontecoe. 
Neither  Benjamin  or  John  left  children.  Garret  is  the  ancestor 
of  Ezekiel  Freer  of  the  Grahow  neighborhood.  Hugo  lived 
in  the  Jeremiah  Freer  place  of  modern  times. 

In  the  list  of  soldiers  in  the  Revolutionary  war  appear  the 
names  of  Hugo,  John,  Garret  and  Benjamin  Freer  in  the  First ^ 
or  Northern  Regiment. 

In  the  subscription  list  for  the  building  of  the  second  stone 
church  at  New  Paltz,  in  1772,  appear  the  names  of  Hugo, 
John,  Benjamin  and  Garret  Freer,  Jr.  Hugo  Freer  subscribed 
£25,  being  one  of  the  largest  subscriptions  made.  Hugo  Freer 
and  Garret  Freer,  Jr.,  were  members  of  the  building  com- 
mittee. 

The  last  Hugo  at  Bontecoe,  who  wrote  his  name  Hugo  B., 
died  about  1850  and  was  the  son  of  the  Hugo  above  named 
and  grandson  of  Hugo,  Jr.  He  lived  in  the  house,  part  stone 
and  part  frame,  a  short  distance  southwest  of  the  Bontecoe 
school  house.  He  inherited  the  farm  from  his  uncle,  Benjamin, 
who,  as  we  have  said,  left  no  children. 

All  of  the  Bontecoe  Freers  are  not  of  this  line,  a  considerable 
portion  being  descended  from  Jacob  Freer,  son  of  Hugo  the 
Patentee,  who  owned  land  on  the  west  side  of  the  Wallkill  on 
the  north  bounds  of  the  Patent  and  probably  located  there  some 
years  before  his  nephew,  Hugo,  Junior. 


36o  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Isaac,  Son  of  Hugo,  Senior 

Isaac,  the  second  son  of  Hugo  Freer,  Senior,  married  Mariten 
Deyo  and  located  on  the  tract  of  1,200  acres  where  Zach.  Freer, 
deceased,  Hved.  Isaac's  name  appears  in  the  Hst  of  Captain 
Hoffman's  Company  in  1716,  also  in  the  list  of  soldiers  enrolled 
in  this  town  in  1738.  His  old  stone  house  was  burned  down 
about  1880.  It  is  said  that  his  house  at  first  consisted  of  one 
room  only,  others  being  afterwards  added.  The  sons  of  Isaac 
Freer  (i)  were  Isaac,  born  in  1734,  and  Daniel,  Jr.,  born  in 
1743.  He  had  several  daughters.  Isaac  Freer  and  his  wife 
Maritje  united  with  the  church  at  New  Paltz  in  1752.  Isaac's 
son  Isaac  married  Hester  Jansen.  Daniel  married,  in  1765, 
Annitje  Deyo.  In  the  Revolutionary  war  Daniel  was  lieutenant 
in  the  First  Company,  Third  Regiment  Ulster  County  Militia, 
and  the  names  of  Isaac  and  Thomas  Freer  appear  as  privates 
in  the  same  regiment.  In  the  list  of  subscriptions  to  the  build- 
ing of  the  second  stone  church,  in  1772,  appear  the  names  of 
Isaac  Freer  for  £15,  Daniel  Freer  £2.15  and  Daniel  Freer,  Jr., 
for  £10.  The  sons  of  Isaac  Freer  and  Hester  Jansen  were 
Thomas,  born  in  1760;  Isaac,  born  in  1765;  Zacharias,  born 
in  1769.  The  last  named  kept  the  old  homestead  and  married 
Rachel  DuBois,  daughter  of  Hendricus  DuBois  of  Noscatack. 
Their  children  were  Thomas,  Henry  D.  B.,  Johannes,  Isaac 
and  Maria.  In  the  war  of  181 2  Zacharias  Freer  was  a  captain, 
his  regiment  being  stationed  in  Long  Island.  Zacharias  held 
the  old  stone  homestead  of  the  family  and  from  him  it  passed 
into  the  possession  of  his  son,  Henry  D.  B.  It  was  burned 
about  1880  and  whatever  old  papers  were  in  the  house  were 
lost  in  the  fire. 


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JoNAS^  Son  of  Hugo,  Senior 

Jonas,  son  of  Hugo,  Senior,  married  Catharine  Stokhard, 
who  was  of  German  birth,  and  hved  at  "Kleyne  Bontecoe," 
near  Springtown,  on  what  is  now  the  R.  V.  N.  Beaver  place ; 
Jonas'  name  appears  in  the  Hst  of  soldiers  in  this  town  in  1738. 
In  the  tax  list  of  1765  he  is  set  down  for  £25,  which  indicates 
that  he  was  in  pretty  comfortable  circumstances  for  those  days. 
In  his  will,  executed  in  1775,  Jonas  disposes  of  his  property  as 
follows :  after  providing  for  his  widow,  Catharine,  he  gives 
to  his  son,  Jonas,  the  farm  on  which  the  son  then  lived  on  the 
east  side  of  the  Wallkill.  This  passed  from  Jonas  (2)  to  his 
son  Elias,  and  then  to  Elias'  sons,  Stephen  and  Peter  W.  A. 
Jonas  ( I )  in  his  will  gives  to  his  son  Simon  the  tract  on  which 
the  testator  lived  at  Kleyne  Bontecoe;  to  his  sons,  Johannes 
and  Elisa,  land  on  the  Swartekill,  in  the  town  of  Newburgh, 
which  he  had  bought  of  John  Preevost.  This  was  on  what  is 
now  called  South  street,  in  the  present  town  of  Lloyd.  To  his 
remaining  son,  Petrus,  is  given  in  Jonas'  will  the  place  on 
which  he  lived,  which  was  purchased  of  Christian  Deyo,  and 
i6o  of  money.     Petrus  moved  to  Dutchess  county. 

We  have  not  traced  the  history  of  this  branch  of  the  family 
further,  except  in  the  case  of  Johannes  (in  English  John), 
who  located  near  the  present  Clintondale  depot  on  land  which 
his  father  had  bought  of  John  Preevost.  He  wrote  his  name 
Johannes,  Jr.  His  wife  was  Sarah,  daughter  of  Abm.  Bevier, 
of  New  Paltz.  His  second  son,  Martinas,  born  in  1762.  emi- 
grated, about  1800,  to  western  New  York  and  subsequently  to 
Ohio.  Attorney-General  Romeo  H.  Freer,  of  Harrisville,  West 
Virginia,  and  Attorney  Charles  Freer,  of  Warren.  Ohio,  are 
grandsons  of  Martinas. 

The  most  extensive  collection  of  ancient  papers  that  we  have 


362  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

found  anywhere  has  come  down  in  the  family  of  Jonas  Freer. 
This  collection  includes  letters,  wills,  receipts,  deeds,  etc. 
Some  of  the  papers  are  in  English,  some  in  Dutch  and  many 
in  French.  Quite  a  number  are  dated  previous  to  1700.  One, 
dated  in  1691,  bears  the  signature  of  Rev.  Pierre  Daillie,  the 
first  pastor  of  the  New  Paltz  church;  another,  dated  in  1699, 
bears  the  signature  of  his  successor.  Rev.  David  Bonrepos. 
There  are  in  the  collection  three  papers,  in  French,  in  the  hand 
writing  and  bearing  the  signature  of  Louis  DuBois  the  Paten- 
tee, who  died  in  1696.  Another  paper,  in  English,  dated  1710, 
is  in  the  handwriting  and  bears  the  signature  of  Roelif  Eltinge, 
the  first  of  the  line  at  New  Paltz,  but  at  that  time  still  residing 
in  Kingston  and  already  a  Justice  of  the  Peace.  Other  papers 
bear  the  signatures  of  the  Patentees  Abraham  Hasbrouck  and 
Louis  Bevier;  another  has  the  signature  of  Moses  Cantine, 
ancestor  of  the  Cantine  family.  One  of  the  most  interesting 
papers  is  a  tax  list  of  the  precinct  in  1712,  in  English,  which 
show^s  that  four  of  the  Patentees  were  living  at  that  time, 
namely,  Louis  Bevier,  Abraham  Hasbrouck,  Jean  Hasbrouck 
and  Abraham  DuBois.  A  number  of  these  papers  have  been 
framed  in  glass  and  placed  in  the  New  Paltz  Memorial  House. 
The  most  ancient  papers  in  the  collection  were  once  the  prop- 
erty of  Hugo,  Sen.  Two  letters,  both  in  French,  are  addressed 
to  him  personally :  one,  dated  in  1699,  congratulates  him  on  his 
marriage ;  the  other,  written  20  years  later,  speaks  of  the  ship- 
ment of  peas  and  other  farm  produce.  When  Hugo,  Senior, 
died  these  old  papers  were  taken  to  the  residence  of  his  son 
Jonas  at  Kleyne  Bontecoe,  who  added  to  the  collection  what- 
ever valuable  papers  he  had  of  his  own. 

From  Jonas  Freer  these  papers  evidently  passed  into  the 
possession  of  his  son  Jonas  (2),  who  lived  where  his  son  Elias 
and  his  grandson  Stephen  afterward  resided.     In  each  genera- 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  '    363 

tion  such  papers  as  were  considered  valuable  were  added  to 
the  collection. 

Jonas  (2)  left  four  sons:  Elias,  Simeon,  Joshua  and  Jona- 
than, Jr.  He  also  left  three  daughters  that  married,  becoming 
the  wives  of  Philip  Schoonmaker,  Abm.  P.  Schoonmaker  and 
Archa  P.  Van  Wagenen. 

Abraham,  the  Son  of  Hugo  the  Patentee 

We  will  pass  now  to  the  history  of  Abraham,  son  of  Hugo 
the  Patentee.  Abraham  married,  in  1694,  Aagien  Titesort. 
In  1705  he  resided  at  Bontecoe,  south  of  the  present  school- 
house,  opposite  the  piece  of  lowland  called  the  Half  Moon. 
Abraham's  name  appears  in  the  list  of  those  who  built  the  first 
stone  church,  in  1720.  In  the  list  of  freeholders,  in  1728,  his 
name  does  not  appear.  He  probably  moved  away,  as  we  find 
in  1723  that  he  transferred  his  two  seats  in  the  church  to  his 
brother,  Hugo,  Senior.  Abraham's  sons  were  Hugo  Ab., 
Abraham,  Jr.,  Solomon,  William  and  Philip.  Hugo  Ab.  mar- 
ried Marytje  Dewitt,  at  Kingston,  in  1720.  His  name  appears 
as  a  soldier  in  Captain  Hoffman's  company  in  1716.  Solomon 
married  Claritje  Westvaal  and  located  at  Minnisink. 

Solomon's  son  Johannes  married  Hester  Lounsberry.  His 
family  Bible,  dating  back  to  1749,  was  in  the  possession  of  his 
great-great-grandson,  Nathan  M.  Freer,  late  of  Chicago. 

Johannes'  son,  John  J.,  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution  and 
died  at  New  Paltz  in  1828.  The  Bible  afterwards  came  into 
the  possession  of  John  J.'s  son,  Elias,  who  died  at  Lxjckport, 
111.,  in  1868,  and  then  passed  into  the  possession  of  his  son, 
S.  C.  Paine  Freer,  a  prominent  citizen  of  Chicago  and  father 
of  Nathan  J\I.  Freer,  lately  deceased. 

WiUiam,  son  of  Abraham,  married,  in  1729,  Maryanette 
Van  Kuvkendall  of  Minnisink.     He  is  set  down  as  living  at 


364  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

New  Paltz.  Their  sons  were  Benjamin,  Jacob  and  Abraham. 
Philip  moved  to  Dutchess  county,  and  in  1735  married  Catha- 
rine Scharp  of  Claverack.  Abraham,  Jr.,  in  1720,  married,  at 
Kingston,  Janitje  Degraff.  He  then  Uved  at  New  Paltz.  In 
1734  he  married  at  Poughkeepsie  (where  he  evidently  then 
resided)  as  his  second  wife,  Johanna  Louis,  widow  of  Peter 
Van  Borne.  They  had  a  son,  Johannes  (in  English  John) 
baptized  in  1739.  This  is  undoubtedly  the  Col.  John  Freer 
who  commanded  the  4th  Dutchess  County  Regiment  in  the 
Revolution.  Abraham,  Jr.,  had  another  son,  Thomas,  bap- 
tized in  1747,  in  Poughkeepsie.  The  Freer  family  increased 
in  numbers  in  Poughkeepsie,  and  a  portion  of  that  city  was 
called  Freertown  down  to  modern  times.  At  Rhinebeck  also 
the  names  of  a  number  of  Freers  are  recorded  in  the  church 
record. 

Jacob,  Son  of  Hugo  the  Patentee 

Jacob  Freer,  son  of  Hugo  the  Patentee,  was  born  in  1679. 
He  married,  in  1705,  Aritje  Van  Wagen.  He  owned  land  at 
Bontecoe,  in  1730,  on  the  west  side  of  the  Wallkill,  adjoining 
the  tract  belonging  to  the  Fans  and  still  known  as  the  Half 
Moon,  and  he  probably  lived  there.  His  name  appears  as  one 
of  those  who  built  the  old  stone  church  at  New  Paltz  in  1720; 
also  as  one  of  the  soldiers  in  Capt.  Hoffman's  company  in  171 5, 
and  as  one  of  the  freeholders  in  the  town  in  1728.  Jacob's 
sons  were  Abraham  and  Isaac  (twins)  ;  Jacob,  born  in  1742; 
Daniel  and  Cornelis.  The  son,  Jacob,  Jr.,  lived  in  the  same 
neighborhood.  His  name  appears  on  the  tax  list  of  the  pre- 
cinct of  New  Paltz,  in  1765,  for  £12.  In  the  building  of  the 
second  stone  church  at  New  Paltz,  in  1772,  Jacob  Freer,  Jr., 
contributed  £\2  and  Jacob  J.  Freer  £3  los.  In  1775  the  name 
of  Jacob  Freer,  Jr.,  appears  as  one  of  the  consistory  of  the  New 
Paltz  church.     His  wife  was  Sarah  Freer. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  365 

Jean,  Son  of  Hugo  the  Patentee 

Jean,  the  youngest  son  of  Hugo  Freer,  the  Patentee,  was 
born  in  1682.  He  married  Rebecca  Van  Wagenen  about  1707. 
He  was  a  resident  of  Kingston  in  1720,  as  is  shown  by  a  bond 
given  by  him  to  his  brother,  Hugo,  Senior,  in  that  year,  now 
in  possession  of  the  writer.  Jean's  name  does  not  appear  in 
the  list  of  those  who  built  the  first  stone  church  at  New  Paltz 
in  1 718,  nor  in  the  list  of  freeholders  of  the  town  in  1728.  He 
doubtless  moved  to  Kingston  when  a  young  man  and  continued 
to  reside  there. 

The  children  of  Jean  Freer  and  Rebecca  Van  Wagenen  were 
Sara,  born  1708;  Gerrit,  born  1711;  Jannitje,  born  1714; 
Marytje,  bom  17 16;  Jacob,  born  17 19;  Rebecca,  born 
1726. 

Gerritt's  name  appears  on  the  list  of  foot  soldiers  in  Kings- 
ton, in  1738.  He  married,  in  1735,  Elizabeth  Van  Vliet.  They 
had  one  son,  William. 

Jacob  married,  in  1754,  Annitje  Van  Aken  of  Kingston.  In 
the  record  on  the  church  book  Jacob  is  said  to  have  been  of 
Wagondahl  (the  old  name  for  Creek  Locks).  The  children 
of  Jacob  Freer  and  Annitje  Van  Aken  were  Jan,  born  in  1755 ; 
Jacob,  born  in  1758;  Peter,  born  in  1760;  Gerrit,  born  in 
1765;  Annitje,  born  in  1776. 

Gerritt  married,  in  1786,  Gertje  Van  Vliet.  Both  are  set 
down  in  the  marriage  as  then  residing  in  Kingston.  They 
resided  at  New  Salem,  where  their  son,  John  G.,  afterwards 
lived  and  carried  on  the  milling  business. 

The  children  of  Gerritt  J.  Freer  and  Geritje  Van  Vliet  were 
Selitje,  born  in  1787;  Lidia,  born  July  3,  1791  ;  Jan  (in  Eng- 
lish John),  born  March  29,  1793;  Blondini,  born  1796;  Gerrit, 
born  in  1798;    Cornelia,  born  in  181 1;   William,  bom  in  1804. 


Z66  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

John  wrote  his  name  John  G.  He  married  Dina  Rose  and 
resided  on  the  farm  of  his  father  at  New  Salem.  He  was  en- 
gaged with  his  father  in  the  milling  business  in  his  early  years 
near  New  Salem,  in  the  town  of  Esopus,  and  also  owned  the 
Eddyville  ferry.  In  1826  he  built  a  stone  house  still 
standing. 


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THE  ABRAHAM   HASBROUCK   HOUSE     IN   THIS  VILLAGE 


368  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 


CHAPTER  XXXI 

The  Family  of  Abraham  Hasbrouck,  the  Patentee 

Abraham  Hasbrouck,  the  Patentee,  has  a  numerous  line  of 
descendants  in  Ulster,  Orange  and  Dutchess  counties. 

The  two  brothers,  Abraham  and  John  (in  French  Jean) 
Hasbrouck  (or  Broecq,  as  the  name  was  sometimes  written), 
were  natives  of  Calais.  Like  others  of  the  Paltz  patentees, 
they  emigrated  to  Manheim,  in  the  Palatinate,  which  was  in 
those  days  the  great  harbor  of  refuge  for  the  Huguenots  fly- 
ing from  persecution  in  France.  Abraham  Hasbrouck,  like- 
wise, probably  resided  in  Holland.  Quite  certain  it  is  that  he 
lived  for  a  time  in  England  and  served  in  the  English  army. 
He  received  his  commission  as  lieutenant  of  a  company  of  foot 
for  New  Paltz  and  Kingston,  August  30,  1685.  In  1689  he 
was  appointed  as  "captain  of  foot  at  Ye  Paltz,  Ulster  county." 

Under  the  date  of  1700  in  a  foot  company  appear  the  names 
of  the  following  officers :  Abm.  Hasbrouck,  captain ;  Moses 
Quantin,  lieutenant ;   Lewis  Bevier,  ensign. 

In  the  records  of  the  Kingston  church,  under  date  of  1676, 
appears  the  following  marriage  entry :  "Abraham  Hasbroocq 
of  Calls  and  Maria  Deyo  (of)   Moeterstat  in  Duyslant." 

Before  coming  to  New  Paltz,  and  while  residing  at  Hurley, 
he  was  appointed  Justice. 

Tradition  states  that  Abraham  Hasbrouck  served  in  the  Eng- 
lish army  with  Gov.  Edmund  Andross,  and  that  it  was  owing 
to  his  influence  with  the  Colonial  Governor  that  the  Huguenots 
obtained  the  grant  of  so  large  and  fine  a  tract  of  land  at  New 
Paltz. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  369 

In  the  diary  of  Col.  Abraham  Hasbrouck  of  Kingston,  who 
was  a  grandson  of  Abraham  Hasbrouck  the  Patentee,  it  is 
stated  that  his  grandfather  left  Mannheim,  where  he  resided  with 
his  father,  went  to  Rotterdam  and  thence  to  Amsterdam,  where 
he  embarked  for  England  in  April,  1675.  From  England  he 
sailed  to  Boston,  from  thence  he  proceeded  to  Esopus,  where 
he  found  his  brother  Jean,  who  had  come  to  America  three 
years  before. 

Quite  possibly  Abraham  may  have  served  in  the  EngUsh 
army  and  then  gone  back  to  his  home  in  Mannheim  before  he 
left  that  place  for  the  new  world.  Abraham  reached  Esopus 
in  July,  1675.  The  next  year  he  married,  at  Hurley,  Maria 
Deyo,  daughter  of  Christian  Deyo,  a  young  woman  with  whom 
he  had  been  acquainted  in  the  Palatinate  and  who  was  one  o£ 
the  passengers  with  him  on  the  passage  across  the  ocean  to 
America. 

Abraham  died  March  7,  171 7,  in  an  apoplectic  fit.  His  wife 
died  March  2-],  1741,  in  her  88th  year.  They  left  a  family 
of  five  sons,  Joseph,  Solomon,  Daniel,  Jonas  and  Benjamin, 
and  one  daughter,  Rachel,  who  married  Louis  DuBois,  Jr. 

Joseph  married  Ellsje  Schoonmaker  and  located  at  Guilford. 
Solomon  married  Sarah  Van  Wagenen  and  located  about  13^ 
miles  north  of  this  village.  Daniel  married  Wyntje  Deyo  and 
kept  his  father's  homestead.  Jonas  probably  died  young. 
Benjamin  married  Jannitje  DeLong  and  moved  to  Dutchess 
county. 

The  home  of  Abraham  the  Patentee,  in  this  village,  was  built 
directly  across  the  street  from  the  present  Reformed  (Dutch) 
church.  The  old  stone  house,  still  standing,  was  possibly  built 
by  Abraham,  but  perhaps  by  his  son  Daniel,  in  whose  line  it 
has  come  straight  down.  There  is  no  date  on  the  old  stone 
house  to  mark  the  time  of  its  erection.     Like  other  of  the  ancient 


370  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

houses  in  this  villa^^e,  it  had  formerly  a  sub-cellar,  which  has 
been  filled  in  during-  the  last  century. 

The  house'  is  about  sixty  feet  in  length  and  thirty  in  width. 
It  has  evidently  been  erected  at  different  times,  the  northern 
part  at  a  later  date  than  the  other  portion.  There  are  initials 
on  the  stones  at  the  northeast  and  southwest  corners  of  the 
building,  but  so  worn  by  the  elements  that  it  is  impossible  to 
decipher  them.  This  house  has  not  been  modernized  since  its 
erection.  The  chimney  in  the  north  end  is  built  in  the  wall. 
There  is  a  cellar  kitchen  in  this  portion  of  the  building.  One 
or  two  rooms  have  been  finished  oft'  in  the  loft.  It  is  one  of 
the  most  antique  in  appearance  of  the  old  houses  in  our  village. 
It  is  still  occupied  and  still  a  comfortable  house. 

Daniel,  Son  of  Abraham  the  Patentee 

Daniel,  born  in  1692,  kept  his  father's  homestead  in  this 
village.  We  find  his  name  in  the  list  of  freeholders  in  1728, 
also  in  the  list  of  slave  owners  in  1755.  He  did  not  marry 
until  in  1734,  when  42  years  of  age.  His  wife  was  Wyntje 
Deyo,  daughter  of  Abm.  Deyo  of  this  village,  who  was  the  son 
of  Pierre  Deyo  the  Patentee.  Daniel  had  a  large  family  of 
sons  and  daughters  and  the  name  Daniel  has  been  handed  down 
in  this  branch  of  the  Hasbrouck  family  until  the  present  day. 
Daniel  died  in  1759.  His  widow  long  survived  him  and  con- 
tinued to  occupy  with  her  six  sons  the  .old  stone  house,  still 
standing,  opposite  the  Reformed  church.  Daniel  Rose,  who 
is  a  descendant  of  Daniel  Hasbrouck,  has  in  his  possession  an 
abstract  of  his  will,  dated  January  26,  1754.  The  will  gives 
to  each  of  his  sons,  Jonas,  Josaphat,  David,  Isaiah,  Benjamin 
and  Zachariah,  one-sixth  of  his  property;  to  the  daughter, 
Elsie,  who  married  Peter  Smedes,  three  milch  cows  and  £200 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  371 

of  New  York  currency.  The  will  directs  that  the  widow  shall 
retain  possession  of  the  property,  both  real  and  personal,  as 
long  as  she  remains  a  widow,  but  that  if  she  marries  again  she 
shall  give  up  possession  of  the  property  to  the  children.  In 
the  tax  list  of  1765  we  find  the  property  all  assessed  to  Wyntje 
Hasbrouck,  and  she  was  one  of  the  wealthiest  residents  of  the 
community.  The  old  homestead  in  this  village  passed  into 
the  possession  of  Daniel's  son,  Isaiah,  who  married  Mary  Be- 
vier,  who,  like  her  mother-in-law,  was  left  a  widow  with  a 
large  family  of  children.  The  children  of  Isaiah  Hasbrouck 
were  Ezekiel,  Isaiah,  Josiah,  Noah,  Elsie  and  Ivlary.  The  last 
named,  who  did  not  marry,  owned  the  old  homestead  until  her 
death,  about  1880.  The  brothers,  Isaiah  and  Josiah,  settled  in 
Sullivan  county.  Noah  lived  where  his  son-in-law,  Abm.  R. 
DuBois,  afterwards  resided. 

From  Alary  Hasbrouck  the  old  homestead  passed  into  the 
possession  of  Isaiah  Hasbrouck,  who  now  owns  it. 

Josaphat,  another  of  the  sons  of  Daniel  Hasbrouck,  married 
Cornelia  DuBois.  They  have  but  one  descendant  of  the  male 
line  living  at  the  present  day,  that  is  Daniel  A.  Hasbrouck  of 
this  village,  who  is  the  only  great-grandson.  However,  Josa- 
phat and  his  wife,  Cornelia  DuBois,  left  three  sons,  Zachariah, 
Simon  and  Andries.  The  two  first  mentioned  did  not  marry 
and  lived  in  the  Clintondale  neighborhood  in  the  house  still 
owned  by  the  family  with  their  brother,  Andries,  who  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Hasbrouck.  Zachariah  lived  to  a  vigorous  old 
age  and  is  well  remembered  by  the  people  of  the  present 
generation. 

Jonas,  another  son  of  Daniel,  lived  on  the  other  side  of  the 
mountains  and  married  Catharine  DuBois ;    he  left  three  sons, 

Josaphat,  who  married  DuBois ;    Daniel,  who  married 

Margaret    Schoonmaker,   and    Isaiah,   who  married   Elizabeth 


372  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Westbrook  and  lived  where  Perry  Deyo  lately  resided.  Daniel 
I.,  of  Gardiner,  is  their  son. 

Daniel's  soft  David  married  Maritje  Houghland.  They  lived 
in  what  is  now  the  Lewis  H.  Deyo  house,  near  Butterville. 
They  had  but  one  son,  William,  who  did  not  marry.  David 
died  March,  1806,  and  is  buried  in  the  southwest  portion  of 
the  old  graveyard  in  this  village.  In  the  same  portion  of  the 
graveyard  and  enclosed  in  an  iron  railing,  are  the  graves  of 
his  nephews,  Daniel  and  Isaiah,  and  their  wives,  Margaret 
Schoonmaker  and  Elizabeth  Westbrook,  the  last  named  of 
whom  died  in  1864,  aged  75  years.  This  was  the  last  inter- 
ment in  the  old  graveyard. 

Zachariah,  another  of  the  six  sons  of  Daniel  Hasbrouck  and 
Wyntje  Deyo,  married  Rachel  Waring.     They  had  a  son,  John. 

Benjamin,  the  remaining  one  of  the  six  sons  of  Daniel  Has- 
brouck, married  Mary  Bevier.  They  lived  on  the  farm  now 
owned  by  their  grandson,  Daniel  Rose,  about  one  mile  from 
this  village  on  the  Modena  road.  Benjamin  left  but  one  son, 
Daniel  B.,  who  kept  the  homestead,  and  one  daughter,  who 
married  Peter  Rose.     Daniel  B.  left  no  children. 

Solomon,  Son  of  Abraham  the  Patentee 

Solomon  was  born  in  1686  and  married  Sarah  Van  Wagenen 
in  1 72 1.  They  lived  in  a  stone  house  about  i^  miles  north 
of  this  village  and  a  quarter  of  a  mile  east  of  the  Springtown 
bridge.  This  house,  after  being  unoccupied  for  many  years, 
tumbled  into  ruins  about  i860.  There  is  a  barn  near  by  and 
about  100  yards  south  is  a  large  old  graveyard.  Solomon  had 
a  large  family  of  sons  as  follows : 

Abraham,  Jr.,  Jacobus,  John,  Daniel,  Simon,  Petrus  and 
Elias.  Of  Abraham,  Jr.,  Daniel  and  Simon  we  have  no  ac- 
count except  that  the  first  named  married  Rachel  Sleight. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  373 

Jacobus'  son  Benjamin  owned  what  is  known  as  the  Simon 
L.  DuBois  farm  near  Springtown.  He  gave  a  Hfe  estate  in 
the  farm  to  his  son  Abraham,  who  was  the  grandfather  of 
John  H.  Hasbrouck  and  Milton  B.  Hasbrouck. 

Of  Petrus,  John  and  EHas  we  have  quite  a  complete 
record. 

Petrus  lived  in  the  old  stone  house  now  owned  by  Mr.  A. 
Neal,  at  Middletown.  This  house  was  built  for  Petrus;  his 
wife  was  Sarah,  daughter  of  Abm.  Bevier.  In  Revolutionary- 
times  Petrus  was  second  lieutenant  in  the  second  company  of 
New  Paltz  militia,  serving  in  Col.  Johannis  Hardenburgh's 
regiment,  which  regiment  served  from  October  25,  1775,  till 
1782  and  saw  much  fighting. 

Petrus'  children  were  Roelif,  who  lived  at  Springto\vn; 
Simon,  who  lived  in  the  old  homestead  and  died  unmarried; 
Samuel,  who  married  Lydia  Crispell  and  inherited  the  old 
homestead ;  Jeremiah,  who  married  a  Bruyn  and  moved  to 
Elmira ;  Mathusalem,  who  married  Maria  Deyo  and  moved  to 
Binghamton ;  Solomon,  who  married  Magdalen  LeFevre  and 
lived  at  Centerville ;  Abram,  who  married  Mary  Blanshan  and 
lived  on  what  is  now  the  John  Morey  farm  at  Bontecoe.  Roelif, 
the  eldest  son,  was  twice  married.  His  first  wife  was  Jane 
Elting.  They  had  four  children — all  girls,  Sarah,  who  mar- 
ried Wm.  W.  Deyo ;  Catharine,  who  married  Jacob  Rose ; 
Dinah,  who  married  Jonathan  LeFevre ;  Magdalen,  who  mar- 
ried Daniel  DuBois. 

Roelif's  second  wife  was  Maria  DeWitt.  They  had  three 
sons,  DeWitt,  Clinton  and  Charles  B.  The  last  named  long 
carried  on  the  mercantile  business  in  this  village  in  the  building 
afterwards  occupied  by  his  nephew,  Oscar  C.  Hasbrouck. 

Petrus'  son  Samuel  was  the  father  of  Miss  Cornelia  Has- 
brouck and  Mrs.  Elihu  Schoonmaker  of  this  village,  from  the 


374  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

latter  of  whom  we  have  our  information  in  regard  to  this 
branch  of  the  Hasbrouck  family. 

EHas  Hasbrduck,  the  brother  of  Petrus  Hasbrouck,  moved 
to  Kingston,  where  he  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business,  his 
store  being  located  on  the  corner  of  Wall  and  j\Iain  streets, 
opposite  the  First  Reformed  church.  Elias  commanded  a 
company  of  rangers  in  the  Revolutionary  war  and  saw  much 
active  service.  He  was  with  Gen.  Richard  Montgomery  in 
the  attack  on  Quebec,  in  which  Montgomery  lost  his  life.  He 
named  one  of  his  sons  Montgomery  in  honor  of  his  old  com- 
mander and  to  his  son,  as  well  as  all  other  sons  of  his  old  com- 
rades who  were  named  for  her  husband.  Gen.  Montgomery's 
widow  made  a  present  of  a  gold  ring.     This  ring  passed  from 

Montgomery  Hasbrouck  to  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Keator, 

who  long  resided  with  her  son-in-law,  Mr.  Chas.  Drake,  in  this 
village,  and  preserved  the  ring  as  a  precious  heirloom.  From 
her  we  have  full  information  of  the  family  of  Elias  Hasbrouck. 
When  the  British  burned  Kingston,  in  the  time  of  the  Revolu- 
tionary war.  the  store  of  Elias  Hasbrouck  was  consumed. 

After  the  war  he  went  to  Shandaken  Valley,  in  Woodstock, 
where  he  bought  a  piece  of  land  at  what  is  now  Lake  Hill. 
Elias  Hasbrouck's  wife  was  Elizabeth  Sleight  of  Esopus.  They 
had  a  family  of  two  daughters  and  five  sons,  Elias,  John,  Daniel, 
Montgomery  and  Peter.  The  last  named  moved  to  Kingston. 
The  other  brothers  all  settled  on  the  tract  purchased  by  their 
father  in  Woodstock,  where  they  had  farms  adjoining  each 
other.  Two  of  Montgomery's  sons,  Daniel,  late  of  Modena, 
and  John  W.,  of  Middletown,  Orange  county,  have  taken  an 
active  interest  in  the  family  history. 

Going  back  now  to  John,  the  brother  of  Elias  and  Petrus, 
we  find  that  he  kept  the  homestead  of  his  father,  Solomon — 
that  is  the  old  stone  house,  afterwards  owned  and  occupied  by 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  375 

Charles  Elting,  standing^  a  few  rods  west  of  the  late  residence 
of  Jas.  Ean,  which  tumbled  down  about  i860. 

John  Hasbrouck  left  two  sons,  John  and .     John  was 

the  only  one  who  married.  John's  wife  was  a  daughter  of 
Wm.  ^IcDonald,  a  Scotchman,  who  had  a  tannery  about  where 
the  eastern  end  of  the  Springtown  railroad  bridge  now  is.  John 
and  his  wife  had  four  sons,  Andrew,  William,  Philip  and  John. 
Andrew  and  William  emigrated  in  their  youth,  the  last  named, 
we  believe,  to  Florida.  John  went  to  Indiana  and  left  a  large 
family  of  children.  Philip  resided  in  the  neighborhood  all  his 
life,  his  residence  being  directly  across  the  street  from  the 
school  house.  For  a  great  number  of  years  he  held  the  office 
of  justice  of  the  peace  and  was  usually  called  '"Squire."  He 
had  three  sons :  Washington,  Peter  and  Evert.  The  first 
named  was  a  very  prominent  educational  man,  was  the  founder 
of  the  Hasbrouck  Institute  at  Jersey  City  and  was  for  a  num- 
ber of  years  principal  of  the  New  Jersey  State  Normal  school 
at  Trenton. 

This  ends  the  history  of  the  descendants  of  Solomon,  son  of 
Abraham  Hasbrouck,  the  patentee. 

Joseph,  Son  of  Abraham  the  Patentee 

We  will  now  proceed  to  the  history  of  Joseph,  the  eldest  son 
of  Abraham  the  Patentee,  who  was  born  in  1684.  Joseph 
Hasbrouck,  and  his  wife,  Ellsje  Schoonmaker,  are  buried  in  the 
graveyard  in  this  village,  but  for  a  great  number  of  years 
they  have  had  few  descendants  permanently  residing  in  the  town 
of  Xew  Paltz.  Nevertheless  none  of  the  New  Paltz  Hugue- 
nots have  left  a  more  honored  line  of  descendants  and  none 
have  taken  greater  interest  in  the  history  of  the  place. 

Joseph  and  his  wife,  Ellsje  Schoonmaker,  were  married  in 
1706.     They  located  at   Guilford,   on   a  tract  of  2,000  acres, 


376 


HISTORY  OF  XEir  PALTZ 


TOMBSTONE  OF  JOSEPH    HASBROUCK   IN   THE  OLD  GRAVE  YARD  IN   THIS 

VILLAGE 


HISTORY  OF  NEir  PALTZ  2>77 

which  had  been  granted  by  patent  in  1685  to  James  Graham 
and  John  Delavall.  The  original  parchment  is  now  in  the 
possession  of  Joseph  Hasbrouck,  Jr.,  who  is  the  owner  and 
occupant  of  the  farm  where  his  father,  Joseph  L.,  his  grand- 
father, Col.  Joe.,  and  his  great-grandfather,  Gen.  Joe.,  lived 
before  him.  Gen.  Joe.'s  father.  Col.  Abraham,  lived  in  Kings- 
ton in  Revolutionary  times  and  his  father  is  the  first  Joseph 
in  the  line. 

The  parchment,  on  which  the  grant  of  the  Guilford  tract  is 
written,  is  in  a  good  state  of  preservation.  About  i860  the 
family  residence  was  burned  down  and  a  number  of  papers 
burned,  but  this  patent  being  in  the  safe  was  preserved. 

The  following  is  a  copy,  the  quaint  spelling  of  certain  words 
being  given  as  in  the  original : 

"Thomas  Dongan,  Lieutenant  Governor  and  vice  admirall  of 
New  Yorke  and  its  dependencyes  under  his  majesty,  James  the 
Second,  by  the  Grace  of  God  of  England,  Scotland,  France  and 
Ireland,  King,  Defender  of  the  faith.  Supreme  Lord  and  pro- 
prietor of  the  colony  and  province  of  New  Yorke  and  depen- 
dencyes in  America.  To  all  to  whom  this  shall  come  sendeth 
greeting. 

Whereas  Phillip  Wells,  esquire,  surveyor  general,  hath  by 
virtue  of  my  warrant,  bearing  date  the  i6th  day  of  December, 
one  thousand  six  hundred  and  eighty-five,  surveyed  and  laid 
out  for  James  Graham  and  John  Delavall,  a  certain  tract  of 
land,  being  situate  and  lying  upon  both  sides  the  Walls  River, 
of  the  New  Palls  and  known  by  the  Indian  name  Nescatock 
and  now  by  the  name  of  Guilford,  in  the  county  of  Ulster 
beginning  on  the  east  side  the  river  and  att  the  south  end  of  a 
small  island,  off  the  mouth  of  the  River  Chauwangung  and 
stretching  into  the  woods  by  a  line  of  marked  trees,  east,  south- 


378  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

east,  five  degrees  and  thirty  minutes,  southerly  fifty  one  chains 
and  a  halfe  and  then  in  length  north  by  east  six  degrees  and 
forty  five  minutes  easterly  one  hundred  and  ninety  chains  and 
then  in  breadth  to  the  River  west,  northwest,  five  degrees  and 
thirty  minutes  northerly,  by  a  line  of  marked  trees,  fifty  one 
chains  and  a  half  to  the  pauls  River  and  so  crossing  the  River, 
to  a  tree  marked  with  three  notches,  and  a  cross  on  them, 
standing  ofif  the  mouth  of  a  small  run  and  so  continues  by  a 
line  of  marked  trees,  fifty  one  chains  and  a  halfe  over  a  small 
hill  and  then  in  length  south  southwest  two  degrees  and  thirty 
minutes  westerly,  one  hundred  and  seventy  six  chains,  to  a  tree 
marked,  near  the  River  Chauwangung  and  from  thence  east, 
southeast  to  the  said  River  and  so  by  the  River  to  the  aforesaid 
small  island,  including  the  said  island,  containing  in  all  wood- 
land and  meadows  two  thousand  acres  as  by  the  Rowenty  of 
the  survey  Remaining  on  record  in  the  secretary's  office  may 
more  fully  and  att  large  appear :  NOW  KNOW  YEE  that  I, 
the  said  Thomas  Dongan,  by  virtue  of  the  power  and  authority 
to  me  devised  from  his  most  sacred  majesty,  and  in  pursuance 
of  the  same  have  given,  granted,  ratified,  released  and  con- 
furred,  and  by  these  presents,  do  give,  grant,  ratify,  release 
and  confirme  unto  the  said  James  Graham  and  John  Delavoll, 
all  the  aforesaid  tract  and  Parcell  of  land  and  Island  lying  and 
being  scituated  within  the  limitts  and  bounds  aforesaid,  to- 
gether with  all  the  woods,  underwoods,  timber,  swamps,  mead- 
ows, pastures,  fields,  islands,  waters,  lakes,  ponds.  Rivers,  Rivu- 
lets, Runns,  Creeks,  Quarries,  Mines,  JMineralls,  ffishing,  hunt- 
ing, hawking,  fl:"owling  and  all  other  Royalties,  Proffits,  Com- 
moditites,  hereadaments  to  the  said  tract  and  parcell  of  land, 
island  and  premissess  with  their  appurtenances,  belonging  or 
in  any  wise  appertaining  (silver  and  gold  mines  only  excepted) 
to  have  and  to  hold  all  the  aforecited  tract  and  parcell  of  land 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  379 

Island  and  premises  with  all  and  everything  appurtenances, 
unto  the  said  James  Graham  and  John  Delavall,  their  heirs  and 
assigns,  to  the  sole  and  proper  use,  beneffitt  and  behoof  of  them 
the  said  James  Graham  and  John  Delavall.  their  heirs  and 
assigns,  forever,  without  an}-  lett,  hindrance  or  molestation, 
to  be  had  or  Reserved  upon  (word  illegible)  or  joynt  tenancy 
or  survivorship,  any  thing  contained  herein  to  the  contrary  in 
any  wise,  notwithstanding,  to  be  holden  of  his  most  sacred 
majesty,  his  heirs  and  successors  in  free  and  comon  Soccage, 
according  to  the  tenure  of  east  Greenwich,  in  the  county  of 
Kent,  within  the  Realms  of  England  yielding,  rendering  and 
paying  therefor  yearly  and  every  year,  unto  his  said  majesty, 
his  heirs  and  successors  or  to  such  officer  or  officers  as  shall  be 
empowered  to  receive  the  same  on  the  five  and  twentieth  Day 
of  ]\Iarch,  att  the  city  of  Xew  Yorke  six  bushels  of  good,  winter, 
merchantable  wheat,  as  an  acklowdedgment  or  quit  rent,  in  lieu 
of  all  services  and  demands  whatsoever. 

In  Testimony,  whereof,  I  have  caused  these  presents  to  be 
recorded  in  the  secretary's  office  and  scale  of  the  province  to 
be  hereunto  affixed,  this  eleventh  day  of  September,  Ann  Dom 
one  thousand  six  hundred  and  eighty  six,  and  in  the  second 
year  of  his  majesty's  reign. 

THOMAS  DOXGAN. 

Recorded  in  the  Secretary's  office  for  the  province  of  New 
York  in  Liber  W.  S.  book  of  Pattents  begun  1684,  pages 
546,  547,  548.  G.  I.  Sprague,  Sec. 

^lay  it  please  your  honor,  the  attorney-general  hath  perused 
this  patent  and  finds  nothing  contained  therein  prejudicial  to 
his  majesty's  interest.  Ja.   Graham. 

Exam.  August,  1686. 


38o  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

We  do  not  know  very  much  about  the  first  Joseph  Has- 
brouck,  except  that  he  was  one  of  the  Justices  of  the  County 
of  Ulster  in  1722,  and  his  name  is  mentioned  in  a  record  of 
that  date  as  having  proceeded  with  two  other  Justices  and  an 
Indian  to  locate  definitely  the  southwest  corner  of  the  Paltz 
patent  at  Moggonck. 

The  diary  of  Joseph's  son,  Col.  Abraham  Hasbrouck,  says 
he  was  "a  gentleman  much  respected  by  those  with  whom  he 
was  acquainted  and  he  served  in  several  public  stations  in 
Ulster  county.  He  was  very  aft'able  and  agreeable  in  company, 
eloquent  in  speech,  spoke  French,  Dutch,  and  very  tolerable 
English." 

Joseph  Hasbrouck  is  buried  in  the  old  graveyard  in  this  vil- 
lage and  the  stone  which  marks  his  last  resting  place  bears 
the  oldest  date  of  any  in  the  graveyard.  It  is  of  brown  sand 
stone,  such  as  was  used  at  that  period.  At  the  top  of  the 
stone  is  an  angel's  head  and  wings.  The  inscription  is  as 
follows :  "Here  lyes  the  Body  of  Joseph  Hasbrouck,  Esq., 
aged  40  years,  3  months  and  18  days,  deceased,  January  28, 
172%."  The  fraction  Y^  marks  the  date  in  Old  Style.  By 
the  side  of  this  grave  is  another  similar  stone  with  the  in- 
scription:  "Here  lies  interred  the  Body  of  Ellsje  Hasbrouck, 
widow  of  Joseph  Hasbrouck,  Esq.,  deceased  ye  27  day  of  July 
1764,  aged  78  years,  8  months  and  3  d^ys." 

Joseph's  widow,  as  will  be  noted  by  these  inscriptions,  out- 
lived her  husband  forty  years.  We  may  suppose  the  stones 
wxre  put  up  by  her  sons  after  their  mother's  death.  Quite 
certainly  no  gravestones  of  brown  sandstone  were  used  in  the 
graveyard  here  at  so  early  a  period  as  1723. 

At  just  what  date  Joseph  Hasbrouck  moved  from  his  father's 
home  in  this  village  and  located  at  Guilford  we  can  not  say. 
It  was  probably  shortly  after  his  marriage  in  1706. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  381 

In  our  previous  sketches  of  the  early  settlers  of  New  Paltz 
we  have  noted  various  instances  of  a  widow  being  left  at  a 
comparatively  youthful  age  with  a  large  family  on  her  hands. 
We  have  noted  the  additional  fact  as  appearing  in  the  early 
history  of  New  Paltz  that,  where  there  was  a  large  family  of 
sons  the  record  of  the  mother  was  that  of  an  exceedingly  able 
woman. 

Joseph  Hasbrouck's  wife  lost  her  husband  when  she  was 
about  thirty-seven  years  of  age,  and  was  left  with  ten  children 
on  her  hands,  while  her  oldest,  Abraham,  was  only  about  seven- 
teen years  of  age.  It  requires  little  imagination  to  see  that  this 
woman,  in  the  wilderness  five  miles  from  the  little  settlement 
at  New  Paltz,  with  no  houses  on  the  way  except  those  of  Louis 
DuBois,  Jr.,  on  the  county  house  plains,  and  Solomon  DuBois, 
where  Mr.  Blake  now  lives,  must  have  had  a  dreary  time,  and 
had  she  not  possessed  a  brave  heart,  would  have  succumbed 
to  the  hardships  of  the  environment.  But  she  did  not  give  up 
the  fight  nor  move  back  to  New  Paltz.  She  raised  her  family 
of  six  sons  and  four  daughters.  In  her  later  years,  when 
neighbors  increased,  she  kept  a  store  in  the  house.  Nine  of 
her  children  married.  Her  family  scattered  widely  and  rose 
to  eminence. 

The  sons  of  Joseph  Hasbrouck  and  his  wife,  Ellsje  Schoon- 
maker,  were  Col.  Abraham,  who  married  Catharine  Bruyn  and 
located  in  Kingston;  Isaac,  who  married  Antje  Low,  widow 
of  John  Van  Gasbeck,  and  located  a  short  distance  east  of  old 
Shawangunk  church ;  Jacob,  who  married  Mary  Hornbeck 
and  moved  to  Marbletown;  Benjamin,  who  married  Eledia 
Schoonmaker  and  located  at  what  is  now  the  Borden  residence 
at  Wallkill ;  Cornelius,  who  did  not  marry ;  Col.  Jonathan,  who 
married  Catharine  DuBois  and  located  at  Newburgh.  There 
were  also  four  daughters,  all  of  whom  married. 


382  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Col.  Abraham,  Son  of  Joseph 

The  oldest  spn,  Abraham,  married  Catharine  Bruyn,  daughter 
of  Jacobus  Bruyn,  who  Hved  a  few  miles  south  of  Guilford, 
and  in  1735,  fourteen  years  after  the  death  of  his  father,  moved 
to  Kingston  and  left  the  other  children  to  help  their  mother  to 
carry  on  the  farm.  We  may  consider  that  the  boys  who  were 
left  at  home  under  care  of  their  mother  did  good  service  in 
clearing  up  the  forest  land,  for  in  1765,  one  year  after  her  death, 
we  find  the  farm  assessed  to  Abraham,  the  oldest  son  (who  had 
bought  it)  at  a  higher  rate  than  any  other  farm  in  the  whole 
precinct  of  New  Paltz. 

For  thirt}'-one  years  Abraham  carried  on  the  mercantile  busi- 
ness in  Kingston.  In  1776  his  store  was  destroyed  by  fire. 
He  then  moved,  and  in  his  later  years  had  his  residence  in  the 
large  stone  building,  well  remembered  by  people  of  the  present 
generation  as  Schryver's  Hotel,  on  East  Front  street,  destroyed 
by  fire  about  1876.  He  is  usually  called  "Colonel,"  but  was 
not  engaged  in  active  service  in  the  Revolutionary  army,  being 
an  old  man  when  the  war  commenced.  He  was  a  lieutenant- 
colonel  of  militia,  was  for  twenty  years  member  of  the  Provin- 
cial Assembly  and  was  a  member  of  the  State  Senate  in  178 1. 

In  1775  he  was  elected  colonel  of  the  ist  Northern  Ulster 
County  Regiment  and  the  next  year  was  elected  commander. 
During  a  long  term  of  years  he  kept  a  diary,  which  contained 
more  authentic  information  probably  than  any  other  record 
of  that  time  in  the  county.  This  diary  is  quite  a  large  volume 
and  is  now  in  the  possession  of  the  family  of  his  great-grand- 
daughter, Mrs.  Geo.  H.  Sharpe.  Col.  Abraham  Hasbrouck, 
though  residing  in  Kingston,  continued  to  take  a  great  interest 
in  the  afifairs  at  New  Paltz,  and  in  the  feud  between  the  Has- 
broucks  and  the  Eltings,  which  formed  so  important  a  part 
of  the  historv  of  those  times,  he  bore  quite  a  conspicuous  part. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  383 

The  origin  of  the  feud  was,  as  nearly  as  we  can  ascertain, 
the  attempt  on  the  part  of  Noah  Elting  and  Nathaniel  LeFevre 
to  obtain  from  the  Colonial  government  a  patent  for  3,000  acres 
of  land  lying  on  the  south  of  the  Paltz  patent.  This  was 
strongly  opposed  by  Col.  Abraham  Hasbrouck  and  others  in 
behalf  of  the  balance  of  the  Paltz  people,  alleging  that  the 
original  Paltz  patent  covered  a  part  of  this  tract.  To  make  the 
fight  more  bitter  an  action  was  commenced  against  Noah,  who 
resided  where  the  late  Edmund  Eltinge  lived,  and  it  was  claimed 
that  the  land  he  occupied  and  which  his  father  purchased  of 
Solomon  and  Louis  DuBois,  Jr.,  in  1726,  was  also  a  part  of  the 
Paltz  patent  and  that  therefore  his  title  to  it  was  not  valid. 
Finally  the  matter  was  settled  without  coming  into  court.  In 
1755  Col.  Abraham,  together  with  Louis  Bevier  of  Marble- 
town  and  Jacob  Hasbrouck,  obtained  a  grant  of  2,000  acres  of 
land  south  of  the  New  Paltz  patent  and  in  the  neighborhood  of 
the  present  Clintondale  depot. 

Col.  Abraham  Hasbrouck  of  Kingston  left  four  sons,  Joseph, 
Daniel,  Jonathan  and  James.  The  oldest  son,  Joseph,  when 
he  became  a  man  moved  back  to  the  old  homestead  at  Guilford. 
Daniel  located  at  Wallkill,  Orange  county,  and  left  two  sons, 
neither  of  whom  married,  and  four  daughters. 

Jonathan  lived  in  Kingston  and  is  well  remembered  as  "Judge 
Jonathan,"  and  was  the  father  of  Hon.  A.  Bruyn  Hasbrouck, 
than  whom  Ulster  county  has  had  no  more  honored  son.  James 
occupied  his  father's  house,  subsequently  the  Schryver  hotel 
property,  at  Kingston. 

We  will  now  go  back  with  Col.  Abraham's  son,  Joseph,  to 
the  homestead  at  Guilford.  Having  been  placed  by  his  father 
on  the  farm  he  worked  it  on  shares  for  several  years.  In  1773, 
when  thirty  years  of  age,  he  married  Elizabeth  Bevier.    Joseph 


384  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

was  a  brigadier-general  of  militia  and  is  usually  spoken  of  as 
"General  Jo."  During  the  Revolutionary  war  his  farm  was  a 
depot  of  supplies  for  the  federal  army  stationed  at  New  Wind- 
sor and  other  places  and  these  supplies  were  forwarded  as 
needed.  The  book  with  his  account  of  these  transactions  is 
still  in  possession  of  the  family  at  Guilford.  During  the  Revo- 
lutionary war  he  was  lieutenant-colonel  in  Col.  Cantine's  regi- 
ment. His  title  as  general  was  probably  for  militia  service 
after  the  war.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Assembly  in  1786 
and  a  member  of  the  State  Senate  in  1793-96.     He  died  in  1808. 

Gen.  Jo.  left  one  daughter  and  a  large  family  of  sons  as 
follows :  Abraham,  Louis,  Daniel,  Joseph,  Philip,  James  and 
Luther. 

The  oldest  son,  Abraham,  who  was  born  in  1775,  moved  to 
Rondout  when  a  young  man,  and  for  half  a  century  carried  on 
a  general  mercantile  business,  being  known  among  his  old 
neighbors  in  Southern  Ulster  as  "Abraham  Hasbrouck  of  the 
Strand."  He  was  in  the  freighting  business,  as  well  as  the 
mercantile  business,  accumulated  a  large  amount  of  property, 
and  was  a  member  of  Congress  in  1813-15.  His  wife  was 
Helena  Jansen.  Their  children  were  Jansen,  Helena,  wife  of 
Henry  Sharpe  and  mother  of  Gen.  George  H.  Sharpe;  Eliza- 
beth, wife  of  Dr.  Richard  Elting;  Catharine,  wife  of  Judge 
G.  W.  Ludlum;  Maria,  wife  of  Robert  Gosman,  Jansen,  the 
only  son,  was  a  very  prominent  citizen  of  Rondout  and  until 
shortly  before  his  death  was  president  of  the  Rondout  bank. 

Besides  Abraham  "of  the  Strand,"  the  other  sons  of  "General 
Jo."  of  Guilford,  as  we  have  said,  were  Louis,  David,  Joseph, 
Philip,  James  and  Luther.  Louis  located  at  Ogdensburgh, 
where  his  descendants  still  live. 

David  became  a  doctor  and  settled  in  Utica.  He  left  at 
least  two  sons,  William  and  John  L.,  the  latter  the  well-known 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z      .  385 

New  York  merchant.  Gen.  Jo.'s  sons  Philip  and  Luther  mar- 
ried, but  left  no  children.  Philip  lived  where  his  nephew, 
Philip  B.,  now  lives  in  Gardiner.  The  two  remaining-  sons, 
James  and  Joseph,  located  in  the  vicinity,  Joseph  retaining  the 
old  homestead  at  Guilford  and  being  sometimes  called  "Colonel 
Jo."  James  lived  west  of  the  Guilford  church.  His  surviving 
sons  are  Louis  of  Libertyville  and  Philip  B.  Col.  Jo.,  who 
kept  the  old  homestead,  left  a  family  of  four  sons,  Abner, 
Oscar,  Dr.  Alfred,  who  settled  in  Poughkeepsie.  and  Joseph  L., 
who  kept  the  old  homestead. 

About  1850  fire  destroyed  the  old  stone  mansion,  and  some 
of  the  ancient  papers,  but  a  portion  of  the  most  valuable  ones 
were  in  the  safe  unharmed.  A  brick  house  of  modern  pattern 
took  the  place  of  the  stone  house.  On  the  death  of  Joseph  L. 
Hasbrouck  the  property  came  into  the  occupancy  of  his  only 
surviving  son,  Mr.  Joseph  Hasbrouck,  Jr. 

Louis  Hasbrouck  (son  of  Joseph,  son  of  Abraham,  son  of 
Joseph,  son  of  Abraham  the  Patentee),  who  settled  at  Ogdens- 
burgh,  was  born  April  22,  1777,  and  was  baptized  May  11, 
1777,  at  Shawangunk  by  Rev.  Regnier  Van  Niest.  He  was 
educated  at  Princeton  and  graduated  in  1797.  He  studied  law 
in  the  office  of  Josiah  Ogden  Hoffman  in  New  York  city  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1801.  Shortly  afterwards  he  re- 
moved to  Ogdensburgh,  N.  Y.  He  was  the  first  County  Clerk 
of  St.  Lawrence  county.  Postmaster  of  Ogdensburgh,  Member 
of  the  Legislature  and   State  Senator.     He  died   Augyst  20, 

1834. 

He  married  Catharine  Banks,  daughter  of  Justus  Banks. 
They  had  several  children,  of  whom  one  son,  Louis,  born  in 
1814,  and  two  daughters,  Sarah  Sophia  and  Louisa,  married. 
One  daughter,  Jane,  is  still  living.  Louis,  the  second  of  the 
name  at  Ogdensburgh,  was  twice  married.     His  first  wife  was 


386  HISTORY  OF  XEJV  PALTZ 

Louise  Seymour  Allen  and  his  second  wife  was  Sarah  Maria 
Hasbrouck,  daughter  of  Levi  Hasbrouck  of  New  Paltz.  By 
the  first  marriage  there  were  three  children,  two  of  whom,  a 
son  and  daughter,  are  now  living — the  son,  who  is  named  Louis, 
being  a  prominent  lawyer  at  Ogdensburg.  By  the  second  mar- 
riage there  were  three  children,  two  of  whom,  Levi  and  Laura 
Maria,  are  still  living. 

Isaac,  Son  of  Joseph  and  Grandson  of  Abraham  the 
Patentee 

Isaac  Hasbrouck,  second  son  of  Joseph  and  grandson  of 
Abraham  the  Patentee,  was  born  March  12,  1712,  and  in  1766 
married  Antje  Low,  widow  of  John  Van  Gaasbeck,  settled  in 
Shawangunk  about  a  mile  south  of  Tuthill  and  built  the  house 
still  standing,  owned  by  Richard  Hardenberg  and  his  children 
for  seventy  years.  His  lands  joined  the  Wallkill  on  the  east 
for  nearly  a  mile  and  extended  west  to  where  the  Shawangunk 
church  stands  and  probably  extended  a  little  farther  to  the 
Shawangunk  kill.  When  the  Shawangunk  church  was  organ- 
ized in  1737  he  gave  the  land  where  the  building  stands. 

Isaac  Hasbrouck  was  Supervisor  of  the  town  of  Shawan- 
gunk in  1751  and  1752. 

Isaac  and  his  wife  had  three  children — Joseph  I.,  Elsie  and 
Jane.  Elsie  did  not  marry.  Jane  married  John  Crispell  and 
they  had  two  sons,  Peter  and  DuBois ;  both  became  physicians. 
DuBois  settled  and  died  in  Kingston,  Peter  died  in  Hurley. 
A  granddaughter  of  Joseph  I.,  Mrs.  A.  M.  Ronk,  has  in  her 
possession  an  old  family  Bible  with  the  following  record : 

"Joseph  I.  Hasbrouck,  born  October  11,  1767,  died  March 
24th,  1842.  Married  Cornelia  Schoonmaker  of  Pa-ca-na-sink, 
born  February  i8th,  1766,  died  July  14th,  1814."  Their  chil- 
dren were  Sarah  B.,  born  August  28,  1788,  married  Daniel 


HISTORY  OF  XEIV  PALTZ  387 

Tuthill;  Maria,  born  May  2},,  1790,  married  Thomas  Ostran- 
der;  Catharine,  born  August  17,  1792,  married  Samuel  John- 
son; Dr.  Stephen,  born  April  24,  1794,  married  Elsie  Schenck 
of  Fishkill ;  Levi,  born  December  21,  1795,  married  Manj 
Decker;  Jane,  born  January  27,  1798,  married  Cornelius  De- 
Witt  of  jMarbletown  ;  Geo.,  born  January  26,  1800,  married 
Maria  Johnson;  Joseph  Osterhoudt,  born  December  23,  1801, 
married  Eliza  Ray;  Abel,  born  December  16,  1803,  married 
Ruth  Winfield;  Augustus,  born  September  20,  1809,  married 
Jane  V.  W.  Eltinge,  daughter  of  Rev.  W'ilhelmus. 

Joseph  I.  located  and  built  on  a  portion  of  his  father's  lands 
about  half  a  mile  south  of  the  old  homestead  and  some  distance 
by  lane  from  the  main  road  to  the  banks  of  the  Wallkill.  This 
has  sometimes  been  mistaken  for  the  old  homestead. 

Joseph  L,  of  Shawangunk,  was  Supervisor  in  1797-9,  1813-4 
and  in  1 81 7. 

Jacob  A.,  Son  of  Joseph  of  Guilford 

Jacob  A.  Hasbrouck,  son  of  Joseph  of  Guilford  and  grand- 
son of  Abraham  the  Patentee,  was  born  in  171 7.  He  married, 
in  1746,  Maria  Hornbeck  and  located  at  Kyserike  in  the  town 
of  Marbletown.  At  about  the  same  date  Isaac  Hasbrouck,  son 
of  Jacob,  son  of  Jean  the  Patentee,  moved  from  what  is  now 
the  Memorial  House  in  this  village  and  likewise  settled  in  the 
town  of  Marbletown.  Both  of  these  Hasbrouck  families  have 
ever  since  had  representatives  in  the  town  of  Marbletown  and 
elsewhere,  but  there  is  a  great  disparity  in  the  number  of  de- 
scendants bearing  the  Hasbrouck  name  for  the  reason  that  while 
Isaac  had  six  sons  and  a  goodly  number  of  grandsons,  Jacob 
had  but  one  son,  and  boys  have  since  been  few  in  numbers  in 
his  line  of  the  Hasbrouck  family. 

Capt.  Jacob  L.  Snyder,  of  High  Falls,  whose  wife  is  a  daugh- 


388  HISTORY  OF  XEll'  PALTZ 

ter  of  Calvin  Hasbrouck  and  great-granddaughter  of  Jacob  A., 
has  in  his  possession  a  number  of  vakiable  old  papers,  which 
have  come  down  in  this  line  of  Hasbroucks  and  which  make 
clear  the  family  history.  The  oldest  of  these  papers  are  two 
deeds  for  land  at  Kyserike  from  Ellsje  Hasbrouck,  of  Guilford, 
widow  of  Joseph,  to  her  son,  Jacob  A.  Hasbrouck.  In  one  of 
the  deeds,  dated  in  1747,  consideration  is  love  and  affection  and 
£300.  In  the  deed  for  the  other  tract  at  Kyserike  the  consid- 
eration mentioned  is  love  and  affection  and  £540.  The  latter 
deed  is  dated  in  1754. 

The  children  of  Jacob  A.  Hasbrouck  and  his  wife,  Alary 
Hornbeck,  were  Anitje,  Elsie,  Mary,  Joseph  and  Rachel.  In 
his  will,  also  in  possession  of  Capt.  Jacob  L.  Snyder,  Jacob  A. 
gives  to  his  son  Joseph  all  his  land  in  the  towns  of  Alarbletown 
and  Rochester,  but  requires  him  to  pay  £400  to  his  sisters, 
Anitje,  Elsie  and  Mary. 

Joseph  Hasbrouck,  son  of  Jacob,  occupied  his  father's  home- 
stead, known  in  modern  times  as  the  Lodewyck  Hasbrouck  place. 

In  the  war  of  the  Revolution  Joseph's  name  appears  as  en- 
sign in  the  company  of  which  John  Hasbrouck.  of  Marbletown, 
who  had  married  Joseph's  sister,  was  captain.  Subsequently 
he  received  from  (ien.  Geo.  Clinton  a  commission  as  lieutenant 
in  the  Levies  and  his  name  ajipears  as  lieutenant  in  tlie  Fourth 
Orange  County  Regiment,  Col.  Hathorn,  of  which  his  cousin, 
Joseph  Hasbrouck  of  Guilford,  was  lieutenant-colonel.  His 
commission  is  dated  July  i.  1780.  At  a  later  date,  alter  the 
close  of  the  war,  in  1787.  he  received  a  commission  as  captain. 
The  will  of  Joseph  Hasbrouck.  which  was  probated  May  6, 
1802,  together  with  the  other  valuable  papers  mentioned  are 
now  in  the  possession  of  Capt.  Jacob  L.  Snyder,  having  come 
to  him  from  his  father-in-law,  Calvin  Hasbrouck,  who  was 
the  son  of  Joseph.  Calvin  resided  at  High  Falls  and  was  for 
many  years  superintendent  on  the  Delaware  &  Hudson  canal. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  389 

Benjamin,  Son  of  Joseph  and  Grandson  of  Abraham  the 

Patentee 

Benjamin,  born  in  1719.  son  of  Joseph  and  grandson  of 
Abraham  the  Patentee,  located  at  what  is  now  Wallkill  and 
built  the  stone  house,  still  standing,  and  which  forms  a  part  of 
the  present  Mrs.  John  G.  Borden  residence.  Benjamin  mar- 
ried Elidia  Schoonmaker  and  had  three  sons,  Benjamin,  Cor- 
nelius and  Joseph,  the  second  named  of  whom  kept  the  home- 
stead, and  the  son  Joseph  took  the  south  part  of  the  farm. 
Cornelius'  farm  was  left  to  his  son.  Benjamin  C.  and  Joseph's 
farm  went  to  his  son  Thomas.  The  descendants  of  the  three 
sons  of  Benjamin  Plasbrouck.  the  first  of  the  name  at  Wallkill, 
are  thus  stated  l)v  Mr.  A.  M.  Ronk : 

Benjamin  married  Elizabeth  Dickerson.  daughter  of  William. 
Their  children  were  Eliza,  who  married  Stephen  Ronk  ;  Lydia 
did  not  marry ;  Isaac  married  Delia  Newman ;  Jacob  married 
Charlotte  Thorn  ;  Elsie  married  Jabez  Ells ;  Henry  H.  mar- 
ried Ruth  Constable ;  Catharine  married  William  Johnson ; 
Jane.  Joseph,  !Mary  did  not  marry. 

Cornelius  married  Jane  Kelso.  Their  children  were  Wm.  C, 
married  Mary  E.  Roe;  Benj.  C.  married  Louise  Lyon;  Mar- 
garet, married  Captain  Eli  Perry. 

Joseph  married  Rebecca  Kelso,  a  sister  of  Cornelius'  wife. 
Their  children  were  Thomas,  did  not  marry;  John,  moved  to 
Michigan,  married  Rachel  Ann  Traphagen ;  Maria  Jane,  mar- 
ried Nathaniel  Roos ;  Catharine  Ann  married  Halsey  Lyon ; 
Rebecca,  married  Linus  Esterly ;    Sarah,  married  John  Titus. 

Wm.  C.  Hasbrouck,  son  of  Cornelius,  son  of  Benjamin,  the 
first  at  Wallkill,  was  bom  August  23,  1800;  married  Mary  E., 
daughter  of  William  Roe,  June  28,  1831  ;  died  November, 
1870;   had  three  sons,  viz.:    Wm.  H.,  Henry  C.  and  Roe,  and 


390  HISTORY  OF  X EW  PALTZ 

three  daughters:  Maria  H.,  Emily  A.  and  Blandina.  He  grad- 
uated at  Union  College  at  the  same  time  Wm.  H.  Seward  was 
an  undergraduate,  and  soon  after  removed  to  Franklin.  Tenn., 
where  he  became  principal  of  the  academy  founded  by  Bishop 
Otey.  Returning  to  the  North,  he  became  principal  of  the 
Farmers'  Hall  Academy,  at  Goshen,  in  1822,  and  commenced 
there  the  study  of  law  with  Mr.  Wisner.  He  completed  his 
legal  studies  with  Wm.  Ross,  in  Newburgh ;  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  1826,  and  rose  rapidly  to  rank  in  his  profession. 
He  was  elected  to  the  Assembly  of  1847  ^"d  was  chosen 
Speaker  of  that  body ;  he  was  a  man  of  high  bearing,  spotless 
character,  and  a  chivalric  sense  of  honor  and  duty.  His  sec- 
ond son,  Henry  C,  graduated  at  the  West  Point  Military 
Academy,  May,  1861 ;  served  as  lieutenant  under  Captain  Grif- 
fin, 5th  Artillery,  U.  S.  A.,  in  first  Bull  Run.  also  at  Miner's 
Hill  and  Newport  News ;  promoted  captain  4th  Artillery,  and 
in  service  in  the  ]\Iodoc  campaign. 

Henry  C.  was  for  some  time  in  command  at  Fortress  Mon- 
roe, holding  a  commission  as  lieut. -colonel  in  the  regular  army, 
and  in  the  war  with  Spain  was  appointed  brigadier-general. 

Col.  Jonathan,  Sox  of  Joseph  and  Grandson  of  Abraham 
THE  Patentee 

Jonathan,  the  youngest  son  of  Joseph  and  grandson  of  Abra- 
ham the  Patentee,  was  born  in  Guilford  April  12.  1722.  and 
died  July  31,  .1780.  Jonathan  married  May.  1751,  Tryntje. 
daughter  of  Cornelius  DuBois  of  Poughwoughtenonk.  Jonathan 
located  at  Newburgh.  purchasing,  in  1747,  the  property  on 
which  he  built,  in  1750,  part  of  the  house  known  as  Washing- 
ton's Headquarters.  Subsequently  he  built  an  addition  to  this 
house  and  here  he  resided  luitil  his  death.  He  was  the  first 
Supervisor  of  the  precinct  in  1763.     He  held  at  different  times 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  391 

commissions  as  ensign,  captain  and  colonel,  his  commission  to 
the  latter  office  being  issued  October  25,  1775.  His  regiment 
saw  much  active  service  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  but,  owing 
to  the  ill  health  of  its  colonel,  was  much  of  the  time  commanded 
by  Lieutenant-Colonel  Johannes  Hardenbergh.  On  account  of 
continued  ill  health  Col.  Jonathan  Hasbrouck  resigned  in  1777. 
The  diary  of  his  brother.  Col.  Abraham  of  Kingston,  gives  the 
following  account  of  Col.  Jonathan : 

"He  was  a  loving  husband  to  his  wife,  a  tender  and  loving 
father  to  his  children,  a  loving  brother  to  his  brothers  and  sis- 
ters, an  obedient  and  dutiful  child  to  his  parents,  a  kind 
master  to  his  servants,  a  good  neighbor,  a  hospitable  man,  a 
good,  industrious,  sober  man,  and  a  very  good  liver,  and  a  very 
good  commonwealth's-man  (whig).  He  was  a  pious  worthy 
man,  paid  a  good  deal  of  reverence  in  hearing  and  reading  the 
word  of  God.  He  was  good  natured,  not  soon  ruffled  or  put 
in  a  passion,  but  with  a  great  deal  of  forbearance.  He  had 
very  good  sense,  and  strong  natural  parts  and  understanding — 
especially  in  divinity,  and  very  knowing  in  common  affairs  of 
life.  He  was  a  man  of  stature  above  six  feet  and  four  inches, 
well  shaped  and  proportioned  of  body,  good  features,  full  visage 
of  face,  but  of  brown  complexion,  dark  blue  eyes,  black  hair, 
with  a  single  curl,  strong  of  body,  arms,  legs ;  was  inclined  to 
be  corpulent  and  fat  in  his  younger  days,  but  meeting  so  many 
sicknesses  and  disorders  he  was  not  so  fat  the  last  thirty  years 
of  his  life  as  he  was  in  his  youth.  He  had  a  great  many  good 
qualities  that  I  don't  write  down  here.  He  died  on  Monday 
morning  and  was  buried  on  Tuesday  in  the  burying  place  on 
his  own  land,  between  his  house  and  the  North  River,  lying 
along  side  two  of  his  sons  (Abraham  and  Joseph),  who  lay 
buried  in  the  same  ground." 

The  other  children  of  Jonathan  were  Cornelius,  Isaac,  Jona- 


392  HISTORY  OF  XEIV  PALTZ 

than,  Mary  and  Rachel.  The  son.  CorneUus,  born  in  1755, 
espoused  the  cause  of  the  king  and  removed  to  Canada  where 
he  founded  a  creditable  family.  The  son  Isaac,  born  in  1761, 
died  in  1806,  married  Hannah  Birdsall  and  continued  to  reside 
at  Headquarters.  The  daughter  ^lary,  born  in  1763,  married 
Capt.  Israel  Smith  and  during  the  Revolutionary  war  resided 
with  her  father's  family  at  Headquarters,  at  the  time  that  Gen. 
and  Airs.  Washington  were  there.  A  cloak  presented  by  Lady 
Washington  to  little  Mary  Smith  is  still  treasured  up  as  an 
heirloom.  The  son  Jonathan  did  not  marry.  The  daughter 
Rachel  married  her  cousin  Daniel,  son  of  Col..  Abraham  of 
Kingston,  and  located  at  Montgomery,  Orange  county. 

Col.  Jonathan's  son  Isaac,  who  occupied  the  Headquarters 
after  his  father's  death,  left  a  family  of  three  sons  and  three 
daughters  as  follows :  Jonathan,  Israel,  Eli,  Sarah,  Rachel, 
Mary,  all  of  whom  were  born  at  Headquarters.  Sarah,  who 
married  Walter  Case,  was  the  only  daughter  who  married. 
Jonathan,  the  oldest  son  of  Isaac  and  grandson  of  Col.  Jonathan, 
married  Phebe  Field  and  left  a  large  family  of  sons  and  daugh- 
ters, all  of  whom  were  born  at  Headquarters. 

Eli,  son  of  Isaac  and  grandson  of  Col.  Jonathan,  married 
Harriet  Belknap  and  left  a  large  family  of  children,  six  of  whom 
married  and  left  children.  Eli's  second  son,  Charles  H.,  de- 
ceased, was  for  many  years  cashier  of  the  Quassaick  Bank. 

Rachel,  daughter  of  Col.  Jonathan,  married  her  cousin  Daniel, 
son  of  Col.  Abraham  Hasbrouck  of  Kingston,  and  located  at 
Montgomery,  Orange  county.  They  left  a  family  of  two  sons, 
Asa  and  Samuel,  neither  of  whom  married,  and  four  daughters 
who  married  as  follows :  Margaret,  married  Severyn  Bruyn 
of  Bruynswick  :  Betsey,  married  Edward  Wait  of  Montgomery! 
Clara,  married  Nicholas  Evertson  of  Newburgh,  and  Elsie, 
married  Dr.  Hornbeck. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  393 

Rachel  Hasbrouck's  Ride  from   Newburgh  to  Guilford 

One  of  the  most  romantic  stories  that  we  hear  of  the  Revo- 
lutionary times  is  thus  related  to  us  by  Mrs.  Peter  Miller  of 
Montgomery,  Orange  county  (who  is  a  daughter  of  Edward 
Wait),  and  was  told  to  her  when  a  child  by  her  grandmother, 
who  is  the  heroine  of  the  tale : 

The  British  were  approaching  Newburgh;  we  presume  it 
was  \'aughn's  expedition  to  relieve  Burgoyne.  Whatever  else 
the  red  coats  might  spare  if  they  stopped  at  Newburgh  it  was 
a  plain  case  that  the  family  plate  of  so  noted  a  rebel  as  Col. 
Jonathan  Hasbrouck  would  not  be  left  at  its  owner's  home. 
So  Rachel,  who  was  eighteen  years  old,  mounted  a  mare  called 
Firefly  and  with  the  family  plate  in  the  saddle  bags  the  brave 
girl  started  alone  for  the  old  home  of  her  grandfather.  Joseph, 
at  Guilford.  Part  of  the  way  the  route  was  only  to  be  found 
by  the  marks  blazed  on  the  trees.  At  the  foot  of  a  mountain 
on  the  route  she  was  stopped  by  tories.  But  the  leader  of  the 
band  declared  with  an  oath  that  she  was  too  pretty  to  be  mo- 
lested. \\'hile  the  members  of  the  party  were  debating  the 
question  Rachel  struck  Firefly  with  the  whip  and  flew  on.  The 
tories  fired  at  her,  but  she  was  not  hit  by  the  bullets  and  arrived 
safe  at  the  ancestral  home  at  Guilford. 

Until  quite  recently  Mrs.  Miller  owned  the  saddle  in  which 
her  grandmother  made  this  famous  ride.  Other  Revolutionary 
reminiscences  related  to  Mrs.  Miller  by  her  grandmother  are 
that  when  the  British  sailed  past  Newburgh  on  the  way  to  help 
Burgoyne  the  family  of  her  father,  Col.  Jonathan,  took  refuge 
in  the  cellar,  expecting  that  the  British  ships  would  cannonade 
the  house.-  They  were  not  disappointed,  but  the  cannon  were 
aimed  too  low  and  the  balls  struck  below  the  house,  in  the 
ground.     When  Washington  had  his  headquarters  at  this  house 


394  HISTORY  OF  XEIV  PALTZ 

he  and  Mrs.  Washington  boarded  with  Col.  Jonathan's  family. 
Part  of  the  time  while  Washington  was  at  Nevvburgh  tht 
Marquis  de  La  Fayette  and  his  wife  were  their  guests.  La 
Fayette  was  a  very  large,  heavy  man — so  large  that  his  wife 
was  obliged  to  use  five  needles  in  knitting  his  stockings,  and 
when  he  went  out  his  valet  would  take  an  extra  horse  along 
for  his  use.  When  Washington  said  good  bye  to  the  head- 
quarters Lady  Washington  presented  Rachel  Hasbrouck  with 
a  chair,  which  is  now  owned  by  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Eager  of  Great 
Bend,  Pa.  Another  daughter  of  Col.  Jonathan  was  likewise 
presented  with  a  chair  by  Lady  Washington. 

Benjamin,  Sox  of  Abraham,  the  Patentee 

Benjamin,  the  youngest  son  of  Abraham  the  Patentee,  born 
in  1696,  located  in  Dutchess  county  about  1720.  His  wife  was 
Janitje  De  Long,  whom  he  married  February  13,  1737.  In 
1755  Benjamin  built  a  stone  house,  which  is  still  standing  near 
Hopewell,  in  which  he  resided  until  his  death,  in  1763.  Ben- 
jamin had  a  family  of  four  sons  and  two  daughters,  as  follows: 
Daniel,  Benjamin,  Jacob,  Mary,  Heiltje  and  Francis.  Benja- 
min did  not  marry.     Daniel  married Van  Vlecken  and 

had  four  sons,  Tunis,  Benjamin,  John  and  Daniel;  also  two 
daughters,  Catharine  and  Rachel.  Tunis  lived  in  the  town  of 
Fishkill,  where  he  left  two  sons.  John  married  Mary  Backus 
and  moved  to  Onondaga  county.  Benjamin  married  Hannah 
Green  and  left  a  large  family  of  children,  eleven  in  all.  Daniel 
did  not  marry. 

Francis,  son  of  Benjamin  (the  first  in  Dutchess  county)  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Swartwout  and  they  had  four  children,  Benja- 
min, Abraham,  James  and  Gilbert.  All  died  young,  except  the 
oldest  son,  Benjamin.     He  was  a  private  in  Capt.   Abraham 


HISTORi'  OF  NEW  PALTZ  395 

Brinkerhoff's  company,  in  Col.  John  Cantine's  Ulster  County 
Regiment.  During  his  lifetime  he  occupied  the  old  stone  house 
of  his  grandfather,  Benjamin.  He  married  Rachel  Storm. 
Their  children  were  Francis,  Sarah,  Catharine,  Elizabeth,  Caro- 
line and  Isaac. 

This  ends  the  history  of  the  family  of  x\braham  Hasbrouck, 
the  New  Paltz  Patentee. 


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HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z 


THE   JEAN    HASCROUCK    HOUSE,    NOW    THE    MEMORIAL    HOUSE 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  397 

CHAPTER  XXXII 

The  Family  of  Jean  Hasbrouck,  the  Patentee 

Directly  across  the  street  from  the  site  of  the  first  stone 
church  stands  the  house  of  Jean  Hasbrouck,  the  Patentee,  which 
was  purchased  by  the  New  Pahz  Huguenot  Memorial  Society 
in  1899,  to  preserve  the  memory  of  the  early  settlers  and  as  a 
store-house  of  relics  and  ancient  documents. 

This  is  the  largest  and  finest  of  all  the  old  houses,  except  the 
DuBois  house,  and  that  has  lost  a  great  part  of  its  attraction 
from  having  been  modernized  many  years  ago. 

The  house  of  which  we  speak  bears  the  letters  I.  H.,  sur- 
mounted by  a  sort  of  crown,  cut  in  a  stone  just  above  and  to 
the  left  of  the  door.  In  the  mortar,  near  one  of  the  front  win- 
dows, is  the  date  171 2.  The  I  in  the  olden  time  was  the  same 
as  J,  and  the  letters  above  mentioned  are  the  initials  of  the 
builder.  The  date  171 2  is  found  in  two  places  on  the  building, 
and  doubtless  marks  the  date  of  its  erection — thirty-five  years 
after  the  date  of  the  patent  and  seven  years  after  the  erection 
of  the  DuBois  house,  which  still  bears  the  figures  1705  in  iron 
letters.  The  only  other  stone  house  in  this  village  ever  bearing 
a  date  of  which  we  are  aware  is  the  original  Bevier  house, 
afterward  the  Elting  store,  which  stands  with  its  gable  end 
to  the  street,  opposite  the  DuBois  house,  and  which  bore  on 
its  chimney  until  about  1890  the  date  of  1735. 

The  first  houses  were  doubtless  all  of  logs.  As  the  settlers 
found  time  they  were  replaced  by  the  stone  edifices  still  stand- 
ing. Probably  every  one  in  the  settlement  assisted  in  the  build- 
ing.    The  house  we  are  describing  is  the  only  one  in  the  village 


398  HISTORY  OF  XEJV  PALTZ 

with  an  exceedingly  tall  and  steep  roof,  nor  do  we  recollect  any 
other  old  stone  house  in  all  the  country  round  with  such  a  roof. 

Entering  at  the  front  door  we  find  ourselves  in  the  broad 
hall,  extending  through  the  center  of  the  building.  To  the 
right  and  left  are  large  rooms,  with  high  ceilings,  the  great 
beams  being  about  nine  feet  from  the  floor. 

The  room  to  the  right  was  used  in  Revolutionary  times,  and 
probably  for  half  a  century  before,  as  a  store  where  the  few 
goods  that  were  not  produced  in  the  place  were  sold  to  the  set- 
tlers. In  one  side  of  the  chimney  is  a  closet  with  a  door  fitting 
so  closely  as  to  be  almost  unnoticed  except  by  careful  inspection. 
This,  it  is  said,  was  the  money  drawer.  High  up  on  the  gar- 
ret is  a  railing  which  was  formerly  in  this  room  and  was  the 
bar,  behind  which  stood  the  merchant  of  the  olden  time.  This 
railing  was  not  taken  up  on  the  garret  until  about  1850.  Levi 
Hasbrouck,  during  his  lifetime  would  not  allow  any  important 
changes  to  be  made  in  the  appearance  of  the  old  homestead, 
and  this  is  the  reason  why  this  bar  railing  was  kept  in  this 
room  so  long  after  it  was  unused  for  mercantile  purposes. 

The  large  room  to  the  left,  as  we  enter,  was  without  doubt 
the  living  room  of  the  family.     In  the  rear  is  the  kitchen. 

The  kitchen  chimney  is  about  ten  feet  wide  at  the  base,  the 
mortar  apparently  of  lime  and  clay — tough  and  firm.  Stepping 
into  the  fireplace  from  the  kitchen,  the  old  trammels  and  pot 
hooks  are  still  to  be  seen.  These  were  in  common  use  in  the 
old  stone  houses  before  the  day  of  cook  stoves.  These  chim- 
neys, with  their  wide  fireplaces,  were  meant  to  consume  the 
great  logs  without  the  trouble  of  cutting  them  up.  The  mantle- 
piece  is  high  up  so  as  to  be  out  of  the  way  of  the  flames.  The 
brick,  of  course,  must  have  been  hauled  from  Kingston  and 
doubtless  brought  from  Holland,  as  there  were,  we  presume, 
no  brickyards  in  this  country  at  that  early  date.     But  what  an 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  399 

immense  quantity  of  brick  went  into  one  of  these  old 
chimneys ! 

Everything  about  the  house  is  evidently  hand-made.  The 
nails  in  the  doors,  the  bolts  and  hinges  are  made  by  the  home 
blacksmith,  and  their  appearance  shows  that  they  were  ham- 
mered out.  The  wood  work  was  made  before  the  day  of  saw- 
mills and  shows  the  hand  planing  of  the  home  carpenter. 

The  work  is  all  substantial.  There  was  evidently  no  slight- 
ing of  the  work  by  mechanics  in  those  days.  The  old  settlers 
meant  to  stay,  and  they  meant  that  their  houses  should  be  for 
their  descendants  as  well  as  themselves. 

Descending  to  the  cellar  we  find  a  higher  ceiling  than  in  the 
other  old  houses.  There  is  one  dark  room,  without  a  window, 
in  the  cellar^  but  we  do  not  find  the  sub-cellar  which  two  or 
three  of  the  other  stone  houses  in  the  village  had  and  which  we 
are  informed  was  to  store  liquor  in  or  to  put  things  in  for 
safe  keeping,  to  have  them  out  of  the  way  of  the  slaves. 
Doubtless  this  dark  room  and  the  sub-cellar  in  other  old  build- 
ings were  for  the  same  purpose.  Part  of  the  cellar  is  paved 
with  stone,  part  of  it  with  brick,  an  evidence  of  comfort  we 
have  not  seen  in  other  old  houses. 

Ascending  to  the  upper  portion  of  the  building,  we  find  the 
airy  loft.  Here  in  olden  times  the  grain  was  stored  in  hogs- 
heads. Even  in  the  memory  of  the  people  now  living,  this 
custom  was  continued  in  this  building.  The  light  streamed  in 
through  the  windows  with  their  little  panes  of  glass.  This 
was  not  the  only  one  of  the  old  houses  in  which  the  grain  was 
stored  in  the  loft.  Doubtless  that  custom  was  universal  in  the 
early  settlement. 

From  cellar  to  garret  the  house  is  full  of  quaint  reminders 
of  the  olden  time — over  two  centuries  ago,  when  the  country 
around  was  a  wilderness  and  New  Paltz  a  little  hamlet  in  its 


400  HISTORY  OF  XEJl'  PALTZ 

midst,  where  a  handful  of  French  Huguenots,  fleeing-  from  per- 
secution, had  found  a  home  and  a  refuge,  where  they  might 
worship  God  in  peace  and  rear  their  famihes  in  comfort. 

Jean  Hasbrouck,  the  Patentee,  left  three  daughters,  Mary, 
who  married  Isaac  DuBois ;  Hester,  who  married  Peter  Gu- 
maer,  and  Elizabeth,  who  married  Loviis  Bevier  of  Marbletown. 
He  also  had  three  sons.  Abraham,  Isaac  and  Jacob.  The  first 
went  to  England  and  never  returned.  Isaac  died  before  his 
father.  His  name  appears  in  the  list  of  members  of  Capt. 
Wessell  Tenbrouck's  company  that  marched  to  the  invasion  of 
Canada  in  171 1.  He  probably  lost  his  life  in  this  campaign. 
Jacob  married  Hester  Bevier  and  kept  the  old  homestead. 
Jacob  left  three  sons,  Jacob,  Isaac  and  Benjamin.  Jacob,  who 
wrote  his  name  Jacob,  Jr.,  married  Jane  DuBois,  daughter  of 
Cornelius  DuBois,  Sr.,  and  sister  of  Cornelius  DuBois,  Jr.,  of 
Poughwoughtenonk.  He  continued  to  reside  in  the  homestead. 
Isaac  married  Maria  Bruyn.  Benjamin  was  killed  by  a  falling 
tree  in  1747.  Isaac  is  the  ancestor  of  the  Stone  Ridge  Has- 
broucks. 

Jacob,  Jr.,  of  New  Paltz,  who  lived  in  the  old  homestead, 
was  Supervisor  of  the  town  in  1762-5  and  again  in  1 77 1 -6. 
From  a  tax  list  of  the  town,  dated  1765,  we  find  that  Jacob 
Hasbrouck.  Jr..  Josiah  Elting  and  Cornelius  DuBois  of  Pough- 
woughtenonk, were  the  three  wealthiest  men  in  the  town  and 
each  possessed  of  about  an  equal  amount  of  property. 

Jacob,  Jr.,  was  captain  of  the  Second  New  Paltz  Company, 
Third  Regiment  of  Ulster  County  Militia,  in  Revolutionary 
times,  his  commission  being  issued  October  25.  1775.  He  was 
promoted  subsequently  to  the  position  of  major  in  the  same 
regiment,  February  21,  1778.  We  have  no  account  of  any  bat- 
tles in  which  he  was  engaged,  but  there  is  good  evidence  that 
he  was  with  the  army  when  Kingston  was  burned. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  401 

Jacob,  Jr.,  left  two  sons,  Josiah  and  Jacob  J.,  Jr. ;  also  one 
daughter,  Hester,  who  married  Dr.  George  Wirtz,  the  ancestor 
of  the  Wurts  family  at  New  Paltz.  On  the  tombstone  in  the 
old  graveyard  marking  the  spot  of  her  interment  is  the  in- 
scription, "daughter  of  Major  Jacob  Hasbrouck." 

In  his  old  age,  Jacob,  Jr.,  built  and  perhaps  moved  to  the 
old  stone  house  in  the  north  bounds  of  the  present  corporation, 
where  his  great-grandson,  Abm.  M.  Hasbrouck,  now  lives. 
The  son  Josiah  kept  the  old  homestead.  He  carried  on  the 
n^iercantile  business  in  this  ancient  house  after  the  Revolution 
and  accumulated  a  very  large  amount  of  property.  He  was  a 
Member  of  Congress  in  the  8th  session  in  1803-5,  was  Membei 
of  Assembly  in  1796,  1802  and  1806,  and  Supervisor  of  the 
town  in  1784-6,  1793-4  and  from  1799  to  1805.  Josiah  was 
commissioned  as  second  lieutenant  in  the  Second  Company, 
Third  Regiment  of  Ulster  County  Militia  in  1780.  He  was 
usually  called  Colonel.  Perhaps  that  rank  may  have  been  be- 
stowed during  the  war  of  181 2.  We  know  nothing  of  his 
military  record. 

In  his  old  age  Josiah  moved  from  the  old  family  residence 
in  this  village  to  the  Plattekill.  His  wife  was  Sarah  Decker. 
They  had  three  daughters,  Elizabeth,  Jane  and  Maria,  and  one 
son,  Levi,  who  occupied  the  Plattekill  residence  during  his 
lifetime,  as  did  his  only  son,  Josiah,  who  died  about  1885. 

Col.  Josiah's  daughters  married  as  follows :  Elizabeth  was 
Josiah  DuBois'  first  wife,  Jane  married  Joseph  Hasbrouck  of 
Guilford  and  Maria  married  Christopher  Reese  of  Newburgh. 

We  have  said  that  Col.  Josiah  had  one  brother,  Jacob  J.,  Jr. 
After  his  father's  death  he  continued  to  occupy  the  house  where 
Abm.  M.  now  resides  until  in  middle  age  when  he  gave  up  this 
house  to  his  son,  Maurice,  and  moved  to  Bontecoe  and  built 
the  brick  house  which  his  grandson,  Luther,  now  owns.     He 


402  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

was  twice  married.  His  first  wife,  Margaret  Hardenbergh, 
died  young,  leaving  one  son,  Louis,  who  went  to  Sullivan 
county  when  a  young  man  and  was  never  seen  again.  The 
second  wife,  Anna  DuBois,  left  a  large  family  of  sons  and 
daughters,  as  follows :  Maurice,  Jacob  J.,  DuBois,  Huram, 
Asenath,  Albina. 

Coming  back  now  to  the  village  and  to  the  ancient  house 
which  is  now  the  Memorial  House,  we  note  that  after  Col. 
Josiah's  removal  to  the  Plattekill,  near  Jenkintown,  the  old 
homestead  was  occupied  for  a  time  by  his  son-in-law,  Josiah 
DuBois,  who  had  previously  carried  on  the  mercantile  busi- 
ness in  partnership  with  him,  but  discontinued  it  after  a  time, 
and  about  1820  built  the  brick  house  now  owned  by  Wm.  H.  D. 
Blake.  After  that  date  the  old  stone  house,  until  its  purchase 
by  the  Huguenot  Memorial  Society  in  1899,  was  occupied  by 
tenants. 

Col.  Josiah  Hasbrouck  was  quite  certainly  the  richest  man  in 
New  Paltz,  perhaps  the  richest  man  in  the  county.  His  father 
before  him  was  a  rich  man  for  those  days.  Yet  it  must  be 
noticed  that  although  this  old  house  was  for  successive  gene- 
rations the  residence  of  wealthy  people  it  was  a  very  plain 
edifice. 

The  people  of  those  old  days  did  not  put  all  their  money  into 
houses.  They  lived,  we  dare  say,  in  comfort,  but  had  not  as 
yet  learned  to  be  discontented  with  the  plain,  old  stone  houses 
of  their  ancestors. 

The  Stone  Ridge  Hasbroucks 

Isaac  Hasbrouck,  son  of  Jacob,  son  of  Jean  the  Patentee, 
was  born  in  1722.  He  married,  in  1745,  Mary,  daughter  of 
Jacobus  Bruyn  of  Shawangunk.  They  moved  to  the  town  of 
Marbletown  and  lived  in  the  house  in  which  their  son,  Severvn, 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  403 

afterwards  resided,  which  is  still  standing",  about  a  mile  east  of 
Stone  Ridge  and  now  owned  by  James  Pine. 

Isaac  HasbroLick  and  his  wife,  Mary  Bruyn,  left  a  large 
family  of  children,  as  follows :  Jacob  I.,  John,  Jacobus  Bruyn, 
Severyn,  Maria,  Esther,  Catharine,  Benjamin  and  Louis. 

The  names  of  four  of  these  sons  appear  as  soldiers  in  the 
Revolutionary  war :  John,  as  captain.  Jacobus  Bruyn  as  lieu- 
tenant, Severyn  and  Louis  as  privates.  The  name  of  Jacob  L 
appears  among  the  signers  of  the  Articles  of  Association. 

Jacob  L,  the  oldest  son,  who  was  born  in  1746,  married  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Cornelius  DuBois  of  Poughwoughtenonk,  in  the 
town  of  New  Paltz.  They  located  at  the  place,  still  known 
as  the  Colabargh,  about  a  mile  north  of  Stone  Ridge.  The 
property  remained  in  the  family  for  several  generations,  pass- 
ing from  Jacob  L  to  his  son  Josiah,  and  then  to  Josiah's  son 
DuBois,  and  then  to  his  son  Dr.  Josiah  Hasbrouck,  who  was  an 
only  son,  as  was  his  father  DuBois.  On  removing  to  Port 
Ewen  he  sold  the  farm  to  Lucas  E.  Schoonmaker. 

Jacob  L  had  another  son,  Cornelius  D.,  who  married  Hannah 
Van  Wagenen,  studied  medicine  and  became  a  doctor.  In  the 
division  of  the  estate  of  his  maternal  grandfather,  Cornelius 
DuBois,  Senior,  of  Poughwoughtenonk,  he  received  the  old 
stone  house  and  about  120  acres  of  land.  Dr.  Hasbrouck 
moved  to  this  tract  about  1820,  tore  down  the  stone  house, 
which  had  been  built  about  100  years  before  by  Solomon  Du- 
Bois, and  built  the  frame  house  still  standing  and  now  occupied 
as  a  residence  by  the  present  owner  of  the  farm,  LeFevre  Du- 
Bois. Dr.  Hasbrouck  resided  on  this  place  and  practiced  medi- 
cine about  twenty-five  years.  He  left  one  son,  Hiram,  who 
went  to  Michigan,  and  one  daughter,  Eliza,  who  married  Peter 
Barnhart  and  lived  on  the  place  until  in  old  age. 

Other  children  of  Jacob   I.   Hasbrouck  and   Sarah  DuBois 


404  HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z 

were:  Isaac,  born  in  1769;  Margaret,  born  in  1773  (married 
Dr.  Wm.  Peters)  ;  Wilhelmus,  born  in  1775  (was  the  owner 
of  Kingston  Point);  Jacobus,  born  in  1777;  Cornelius,  born 
in  1778;  Jacob  I.,  Jr.,  born  June  7,  1780;  Louis  I.,  born  1785; 
Abraham,  born  in  1787;    Maria,  born  in  1789. 

Of  this  numerous  family  we  have  additional  account  of  the 
following :  Louis  L  married  Margaret  Van  Vleck.  Maria 
married  Dr.  ]\Iatthew  Dewitt  of  Stone  Ridge  and  left  no  chil- 
dren. Jacob  L,  Jr.,  married,  November  18,  1809,  Catharine 
Knickerbocker.  They  had  a  large  family  of  children,  as  fol- 
lows:  Cyrus  (killed  in  the  civil  war),  Rufus,  Sarah  DuBois, 
Wm.  Peters,  Matthew  Dewitt,  Annie  Ingraham,  Maria  Dewitt, 
Margaret  Peters,  Josiah  Lewis,  Anna  Chittenden.  The  daugh- 
ter, Margaret  Peters,  married  James  C.  Cornish.  Rev.  Marion 
Cornish  of  Kingston  is  their  son. 

Benjamin,  son  of  Isaac,  wrote  his  name  Benjamin  I.  He 
was  born  in  1764  and  located  at  Kyserike.  his  old  stone  house, 
which  is  still  standing,  being  on  what  is  now  the  Matthew  Steen 
place.  Benjamin  was  twice  married.  His  first  wife  was 
Catrina  Smedes.  After  her  death  he  married  Rachel,  daugh- 
ter of  David  Hasbrouck.  whose  home  was  what  is  now  the 
Louis  H.  Deyo  place,  near  Butterville.  By  the  second  wife 
there  were  four  daughters,  one  of  whom  married  Stephen  Stil- 
well.  Benjamin  I.  Hasbrouck  died  in  1843,  a.£red  eighty  years. 
The  farm  passed  into  the  possession  of  his  son,  Alexander, 
usually  called  Bony,  who  was  a  child  by  the  first  wife. 

John,  son  of  Isaac,  the  first  Hasbrouck  at  Stone  Ridge,  mar- 
ried Mary,  daughter  of  Jacob  A.  Hasbrouck  of  Kyserike,  who 
was  the  son  of  Joseph  Hasbrouck  of  Guilford.  John  located 
about  one  mile  south  of  Stone  Ridge  at  what  was  called  Rest 
place  and  here  he  built  a  stone  house.  In  the  Revolutionary 
war  he  served  as  captain  in  the  Third  Lester  County  Militia, 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  405 

of  which  John  Cantine  was  colonel.  The  name  of  John  Has- 
brouck,  Jr.,  perhaps  the  same  person,  appears  as  a  private  in 
the  Third  Regiment  of  the  Line,  commanded  by  Col.  Jas. 
Clinton.  From  one  of  the  family,  Mrs.  James  Oliver  Has- 
brouck,  residing  in  extreme  old  age  at  Washington,  D.  C, 
comes  the  following  account  of  the  services  of  Capt.  John  Has- 
brouck  and  his  family  in  the  Revolutionary  war : 

Capt.  John  inherited  a  homestead  from  his  father,  which  was 
located  in  the  county  of  Ulster,  town  of  jMarbletown.  On  it 
he  built  a  stone  house.  When  the  war  broke  out  he  went  him- 
self and  gave  everything  except  his  homestead  for  freedom's 
cause.  On  this  homestead  or  farm  he  left  his  wife  and  four 
small  children ;  and  she,  taking  up  the  burden  of  both  man  and 
wife,  worked  the  land,  which  was  in  a  splendid  state  of  culti- 
vation. Finally  the  Indians  and  Tories,  who  were  all  around 
them,  became  so  troublesome  and  dangerous  that  it  was  neces- 
sary to  have  a  fort  for  the  safety  of  the  families.  So  Capt. 
John's  wife  offered  her  house,  which  was  turned  into  a  fort. 
It  had  to  be  guarded  day  and  night  by  the  soldiers — even  men 
who  worked  in  the  fields  had  to  have  a  guard  with  them  or 
they  would  be  shot  while  at  work.  At  this  fort  the  people 
were  cared  for  and  given  a  place  where  they  could  sleep  in 
safety,  and  besides  the  table  was  always  on  the  floor  for  those 
that  were  hungry.  The  homestead  was  handed  down  from 
generation  to  generation  until  it  came  to  Gross  Hasbrouck, 
grandson  of  Capt.  John.  Capt.  John  Hasbrouck's  descendants 
likewise  have  an  account  of  his  presence  at  the  capture  of  Bur- 
goyne's  army,  also  in  Sullivan's  expedition  against  the  Indians., 

Severyn,  son  of  Isaac  Hasbrouck,  the  first  of  the  name  at 
Stone  Ridge,  was  born  in  1756.  He  lived  about  a  mile  east  of 
Stone  Ridge  on  what  is  now  the  James  Pine  place.  He  was 
twice  married.     By  his  first  wife,  Maria  Depuy,  he  had  one 


406  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

son,  Isaac  S.,  born  in  1786.  By  his  second  wife,  Maria  Conk- 
lin,  he  had  one  son,  Henry  C,  and  one  daughter,  Maria.  Isaac 
S.  studied  for  a  doctor  and  practiced  medicine  for  a  time,  and 
afterwards  carried  on  the  mercantile  business  at  Stone  Ridge. 
His  wife  was  Matilda  Barnes.  Their  children  were  Severyn, 
Edgar,  Charlotte  and  Matthew.  The  two  first  named  sons 
continued  their  father's  business  as  merchants  at  Stone  Ridge. 
Henry  C.  Hasbrouck  lived  on  a  farm  about  a  mile  east  of  Stone 
Ridge.  His  wife  was  Nancy  Barnes.  Their  children  were 
Lorenzo,  who  died  when  a  young  man,  and  Elmira,  who  mar- 
ried Abm,  V.  N.  Kiting  of  New  Paltz. 

Jacobus  Bruyn,  son  of  Isaac  Hasbrouck,  the  first  of  the  name 
at  Stone  Ridge,  was  born  in  1753.  married  Ann  Abeel.  They 
resided  at  High  Falls. 

We  have  no  further  information  concerning  the  family  of 
Jacobus  and  none  concerning  that  of  Louis,  the  youngest  son 
of  Isaac,  except  that  he  was  born  in  1767,  married  Catharine 
Decker  and  lived  at  Stone  Ridge. 


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CHAPTER  XXXIII 

The  LeFevre  Family  in  America 

Among  the  Huguenots  who  settled  in  America  at  an  early 
date  we  have  accounts  of  six  different  families  of  LeFevres, 
namely  at  New  York,  in  New  Paltz,  in  New  Jersey,  in  Penn- 
sylvania and  at  New  Rochelle.  We  have  no  certain  evidence 
that  these  families  were  related,  although  it  is  quite  probable 
that  Isaac  LeFevre,  the  ancestor  of  the  Pennsylvania  tribe,  was 
the  nephew  of  Andre  and  Simon  LeFevre,  of  New  Paltz,  and 
quite  possibly  all  these  Huguenot  families  bearing  the  name  of 
LeFevre  were  nearly  related. 

For  our  account  of  the  LeFevre  family  outside  of  Ulster 
county  we  are  mainly  indebted  to  the  researches  of  Mrs.  C.  A. 
Weber  Lindsay,  of  Pittsburg,  Penn. 

The  first  LeFevre  in  America  of  whom  we  have  any  record 
was  Peter  LeFevre,  who  was  in  New  Amsterdam  in  1653. 
His  name  appears  on  the  records  at  subsequent  dates  during 
the  next  few  years  in  New  York  and  Brooklyn  as  an  owner 
of  real  estate.  It  is  thought  that  he  or  his  widow  moved  to 
New  Jersey.  Hippolytus  LeFevre  settled  at  Salem  in  western 
New  Jersey  and  was  one  of  John  Fenwick's  council  in  1676. 
He  became  a  large  landholder  and  his  descendants  are  believed 
to  have  been  engaged  in  navigation,  as  nearly  half  a  century 
afterward  vessels  bearing  the  name  of  members  of  the  LeFevre 
family  were  running  from  this  part  of  New  Jersey  to  the  New 
England  coast.  In  1683  another  LeFevre,  Isaac  by  name, 
crossed  the  ocean  and  settled  in  New  Jersey.  His  son,  Myn- 
dert,  in   1731,  advertised  his   father's   farm   for  sale,  between 


4o8  HISTORY  OF  XEJl'  PALTZ 

Perth  Aniboy  and  Xew  Brunswick.  These  Xew  Jersey  Le- 
Fevres  have  moved  to  other  states  or  become  extinct  in  the 
male  Hne.  as  the  name  has  been  lost  a  long  time  in  that  country. 

Isaac,  the  ancestor  of  the  Pennsylvania  LeFevres.  has  a 
numerous  line  of  descendants  and  the  family  history  has  been 
carefully  traced.  A  brief  statement  is  as  follows :  Isaac  was 
born  in  France  in  1669.  ^^  hen  he  was  a  youth  of  fourteen 
his  parents,  brothers  and  sisters  were  massacred  on  account  of 
their  religion.  He  escaped  and  fled  to  the  Palatinate,  carrying 
with  him  the  family  llible.  which  is  still  in  existence  and  is  now 
the  property  of  Samuel  T.  LeFevre  of  Iowa  City.  Iowa.  It 
is  about  300  years  old.  was  printed  at  Geneva  and  contains  the 
name  of  Isaac's  brothers  and  sisters,  but  not  of  his  parents. 
Isaac  fled  from  France  to  the  Palatinate  in  company  with  the 
family  of  ■Madam  Ferree  and  married  the  daughter.  Catharine 
Ferree.  One  son.  Abraham,  was  born  to  them  in  the  Pala- 
tinate. In  1708  they  emigrated  to  America  and  in  171 1  were 
in  Kingston,  when  their  second  son.  Philip,  was  baptised  April 
I.  171 1.  Isaac  DuBois  and  Rachel  DuBois,  both  of  Xew  Paltz. 
being  sponsors.  In  1712  Isaac  went  with  his  wife  and  two 
sons  to  Lancaster  county  (then  Chester  county).  Pa.,  nine 
miles  from  the  present  town  of  Lancaster,  where  he  made  pur- 
chases of  land  amounting  to  2.200  acres,  and  here  in  1713  tlioir 
son  Daniel  was  born,  being  the  first  white  child  born  in  the 
Pequea  \'alley.  At  about  the  same  date  Abm.  DuBois,  one  of 
the  New  Paltz  Patentees,  bought  a  large  tract  of  land  in  this 
part  of  Pennsylvania  and  in  this  section  three  of  his  daughters 
and  their  husbands  located.  Isaac  LeFevre,  of  Pennsylvania, 
has  a  numerous  and  highly  respectable  line  of  descendants.  In 
December,  1896,  an  organization  of  the  LeFevre  and  Ferree 
families  was  formed  for  historical  purposes. 

The  Xew  Rochelle  LeFevres  came  to  this  country  at  a  much 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  409 

later  date  tlian  the  others  of  the  name.  They  are  descended 
from  John  LeFevre.  a  native  of  Havre  de  Grace  in  France, 
who  went  from  his  native  country  to  St.  Domingo.  His  son 
John,  born  in  1752.  (Hed  in  1837,  emigrated  to  New  Rochelle, 
N.  Y.  John  left  a  family  of  seven  children,  of  whom  the  eldest 
was  the  late  Peter  E.  LeFevre.  captain  of  one  of  the  Atlantic 
steamers  sailing-  from  New  York.  Hon.  Ben.  LeFevre,  of 
Ohio,  is  a  grandson  of  John. 

With  this  brief  notice  of  other  families  of  Fluguenot  descent 
bearing  the  name  of  LeFevre  we  take  u])  the  history  of  the  two 
brothers.  Andre  and  Simon,  who  settled  at  New  Paltz. 

The  LeFevre  Family  at  New  Paltz 

The  old  people,  in  noting  the  family  characteristics  of  the 
LeFevres,  said  they  lacked  the  energy  of  the  Hasbroucks  and 
DuBoises ;  they  would  not  work  hard  themselves,  nor  make 
their  slaves  work  hard  ;  they  were  not  so  noted  for  book  learn- 
ing as  the  Beviers ;  they  could  not  talk  well ;  but  on  the  other 
hand  they  knew  when  to  keep  the  mouth  shut.  This  is  a  most 
important  quality,  meaning  prudence  and  oftentimes  good  sense 
and  judgment.  The  LeFevres  certainly  held  their  own  very 
well  among  the  other  settlers ;  when  the  church  sought  release 
from  Holland  rule  and  when  the  country  sought  release  from 
British  rule  they  were  on  the  right  side :  in  Iniilding  each 
of  the  old  stone  churches  they  contributed  a  full  share,  and  in 
the  war  of  the  Revolution  did  not  waver ;  no  feutls  or  family 
quarrels  are  reported  among  the  LeFevres  in  the  olden  days. 

Simon  and  Andre  LeFevre,  after  leaving  France,  resided  in 
the  Palatinate.  They  arrived  at  Kingston  at  an  earlier  date 
than  most  of  the  New  Paltz  Patentees  and  united  with  the 
church  at  that  place  in  April,  1665.  The  LeFevre  family  has 
a  large  share  of  well-preserved   traditionary  lore   and  ample 


4IO  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

documentary  evidence  concerning  its  later  members,  but  of  these 
two  brothers  we  have  Httle  knowledge.  Probably  they  were 
mere  boys  when  they  came  to  Kingston,  and  that  is  the  reason 
their  names  do  not  appear  on  the  records  for  the  next  twelve 
years,  and  that  would  also  explain  why  there  have  been  found 
no  certificates  of  their  church  membership  in  the  Palatinate, 
as  have  turned  up  in  the  case  of  others  of  the  Patentees.  We 
have  been  told  that  Grandfather  Peter  LeFevre  had  a  French 
testament  and,  according  to  the  best  recollection  of  our  infor- 
mant, the  word  "Lyons"  w^as  on  the  flyleaf.  This  testament 
can  not  now  be  found.  We  think  it  probable  that  the  LeFevre 
brothers  were  of  the  kindred  of  Jas.  LeFevre,  the  great  French 
Reformer  and  Bible  translator,  who  was  born  at  Calais,  from 
whence  came  the  Hasbrouck  brothers.  Lille,  the  home  of  Louis 
DuBois,  was  not  far  ofif.  Louis  Bevier  was  a  cousin  of  the 
Hasbroucks.  It  is  probable  that  all  the  Patentees  were  from 
the  same  portion  of  France.  In  1635  Adam  LeFevre,  who 
may  have  been  a  relative,  went  from  Calais  to  Leyden.  Thirty 
years  afterwards  Andre  and  Simon  are  in  Kingston,  but  prob- 
ably we  shall  never  know  the  place  of  their  birth  or  who  were 
their  parents,  as  the  baptismal  records  of  Huguenot  families 
were  destroyed  by  order  of  Louis  XIV. 

At  the  granting  of  the  New  Paltz  Patent  in  1677  the  names 
of  the  LeFevre  brothers  appear  with  the  other  Patentees. 
Simon  married  Elizabeth  Deyo,  daughter  of  Christian,  the 
Patentee.  Their  first  born  child,  Abram,  who  died  young,  was 
baptised  at  Kingston  in  1679;  their  son  Isaac,  the  ancestor  of 
the  Bontecoe  tribe,  was  baptised  at  New  Paltz,  October  28, 
1683,  3"d  their  son  Jean  (Jan  in  Dutch,  John  in  English)  was 
baptised  October  28,  1685.  ^Ve  find  no  record  of  the  baptism 
of  the  son  Andre  (in  English  Andrew,  in  Dutch  Andries). 
He  is  first  mentioned  as  joining  the  church  here  in  1700. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  411 

Of  Simon  and  Andre,  the  Patentee,  we  find  but  little  account 
in  the  early  records  of  New  Paltz.  Neither  of  them  lived  very 
long  after  the  settlement  here.  In  1680  Andre  sold  to  Hyman 
Albertson  Rosa  a  house  at  Hurley,  which  he  had  bought  of  the 
executors  of  Cornelius  Wynkoop.  In  1681  his  name  appears 
as  godfather  at  the  baptism  of  Andre,  son  of  Louis  Bevier, 
and  in  1694  as  godfather  at  the  baptism  of  Daniel,  son  of  Abra- 
ham Hasbrouck.  Andre  was  the  only  one  of  the  Patentees 
who  did  not  marry.  He  doubtless  made  his  home  with  his 
brother,  whose  children  at  his  death  inherited  his  property. 
He  certainly  outlived  his  brother,  but  we  can  not  give  the  date 
of  his  death.  An  ancient  tombstone  in  the  old  graveyard, 
bearing  simply  the  initials  A.  L.  F.,  marks  the  grave  either  of 
the  Patentee  or  of  his  nephew  who  bore  his  name. 

Simon,  the  Patentee,  built  his  house  in  the  northern  part  of 
the  present  churchyard,  where  it  stood  until  the  present  church 
was  built,  in  1839.  In  1678  Simon,  acting  for  his  father-in- 
law.  Christian  Deyo,  transferred  a  house  at  Hurley  to  Cornelius 
Wolverson.  In  1689  the  names  of  the  LeFevre  brothers  and 
the  other  Patentees,  except  Christian  Deyo  (who  was  dead), 
appear  in  the  list  of  persons  taking  the  oath  of  allegiance. 

The  only  family  paper  in  existence,  so  far  as  we  know,  re- 
lating to  Simon  is  an  agreement  between  the  son  and  four  sons- 
in-law  of  Christian  Deyo  in  1687  for  an  equitable  division  of 
his  property.  Simon  must  have  died  about  1690.  His  widow 
married  Moyse  (Moses)  Can  tain,  a  French  Protestant,  whose 
wife  had  died  on  the  passage  to  i\merica.  In  1693,  May  21, 
they  had  a  son,  Peter,  baptised  and  he  is  the  ancestor  of  the 
Cantine  family. 

Cantain  occupied  the  house  until  the  LeFevre  boys  were 
grown  and  then  moved  to  Ponckhockie.  In  1700  we  find  his 
name  as  lieutenant  in  a  military  company,  the  rest  of  whose 


412  HISTORY  OF  NEU^  PALTZ 

officers  were  New  Paltz  men.  He  probably  left  our  village 
shortly  after  that  date.  In  the  tax  list  of  171 2  the  property  is 
assessed  to  "Andre  LeFevre  &  Co.,"  meaning,  of  course,  the 
three  brothers  and  their  sister  Mary,  who  married  Daniel  Du- 
Bois,  son  of  Isaac,  the  Patentee. 

The  LeFevre  property  in  this  assessment  roll  is  valued  at 
£270  and  is  the  largest  assessment  on  the  roll,  except  those  of 
Louis  Bevier  and  Abm.  DuBois. 

In  1 71 3  a  division  w^as  made  among  the  children,  who  had 
until  that  date  jointly  owned  the  one-sixth  of  all  the  lands  in 
the  patent,  which  they  had  heired  from  their  father  Simon 
and  their  uncle  Andre,  and  likewise  the  one-fifth  of  the  share 
of  Christian  Deyo,  which  had  come  to  them  from  their  mother. 
The  paper  containing  the  apportionment  to  the  sister  Mary, 
who  had  married  Daniel  DuBois,  has  come  down  among  the 
papers  of  that  family  and  is  as  follows,  certain  portions  being 
illegible  and  marked  with  stars : 

To  all  Christian  people  to  whom  this  present  writing  shall 
or  may  come  Andre  Lefevre  of  the  town  of  new  palls  in  the 
County  of  Lister  and  province  of  New  York  in  America  Isaac 
Lefevre  of  the  same  place  Jean  Lefevre  of  the  same  place  the 
heires  of  Andre  Lefevre  and  Symon  Lefevre  both  late  of  the 
new  palls  Deceased  Send  Greeting  Whereas  the  said  Andre 
Lefevre  and  Symon  Lefevre  in  theire  lifetime  were  possessed 
&  seized  of  two-twelfths  and  of  the  one-fifth  part  of  a  twelfth 
part  of  all  the  land  and  appurtenances  *  '■'  *  within  the 
bounds  and  limmitts  of  the  Pattent  of  the  Town  *  *  afore- 
said and  whereas  the  Partners  of  the  said  lands  of  the  *  * 
by  theire  certain  deed  or  instrument  in  writing  under  their 
hand  *  '''  the  twenty-fifth  day  of  Jany  anno  Domini  *  * 
Did  convey  unto  the  said  Andre  LeFevre  Isaac  Lefevre  Jean 
Lefevre  and   Mary  Lefevre     *     *     now  wife  of  Daniel  Du- 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  413 

Bois  of  the  new  palls  aforesaid  all  their  lotts  and  parts  of  the 
Lands  within  the  bounds  and  Limmitts  of  the  new  palls  afore- 
said as  in  and  by  the  said  deed  or  instrument  in  writing  there- 
unto being  had  doth  and  *  appear  and  whereas  by  the 
division  of  the  said  parts  and  lotts  of  the  said  new  palls  afore- 
said The  Lotts  and  parts  hereafter  in  these  presents  more  par- 
ticularly mentioned  and  expressed  are  fallen  unto  the  said  Daniel 
DuBois  and  Mary  his  wife  Now  for  a  confirmation  of  the  same 
unto  them  the  said  Daniel  Dubois  &  Mary  his  wife  their  heirs 
and  assigns  forever  Know  Yee  that  the  said  Andre  Lefevre 
Isaac  Lefevre  and  Jean  Lefevre  Have  given  granted  conveyed 
assured  Ratified  Released  and  confirmed  and  by  these  presents 
for  themselves  and  their  heirs  Do  freely  and  Clearly  give  grant 
convey  assure  Release  Ratifie  and  confirme  unto  the  said  Daniel 
Dubois  and  Mary  his  wife  «&:  to  their  heirs  and  assigns  forever 
all  that  certain  lott  lying  and  being  on  the  north  side  of  the 
palls  creek  on  a  certain  piece  of  land  call  avienjer  or  piece  of 
oates  Between  the  lotts  of  Jean  Hasbrouck  and  the  said  Daniel 
Dubois  and  also-  a  certaine  lott  lying  on  the  north  side  of  the 
palls  creek  on  a  piece  of  land  called  pasture  between  the  lotts 
of  Jean  Hasbrouck  and  Abram  DuBois  allso  a  certaine  lott  of 
land  on  the  northeast  of  the  high  bridge  so  called  between  the 
lotts  of  Daniel  Dubois  &  Lewies  Bevier  and  also  a  certaine  lott 
of  land  lying  on  the  north  of  the  palls  creek  on  a  piece  of  land 
called  the  Little  bontekow  between  the  lotts  of  the  said  Daniel 
DuBois  and  Pieter  Doyo  and  also  a  home  lott  and  pasture  land 
thereunto  adjoining  lying  in  the  Town  of  the  new  palls  on  the 
east  side  of  the  *  *  Lewies  Beviere  being  in  length  from 
the  street  to  the  pas —  *  *  Lefevre  equal  with  the  said 
lotts  &  pastures  in  length  *  *  Beviere  and  also  to  a  certain 
parcell  of  land  lying  to  the  north  *  *  of  the  new  palls  and 
to  the  east  of  the  waggon   path  betw^een   the     *     *     Dubois 


414  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

and  Jean  Hasbrouck  and  also  to  a  just  fourth  part  of  *  * 
two  twelfth  parts  &  one  fifth  part  of  a  twelfth  part  of  said 
*  *  new  palls  aforesaid  which  is  nott  yett  devided  and  layd 
out  to  have  and  to  hold  the  said  lotts  parts  and  parcels  of  lands 
with  all  and  singular  the  *  appurtenances  thereunto  be- 
longing or  in  anywise  appertaining  unto  them  the  said  Daniel 
DuBois  and  Mary  his  wife  their  heirs  and  assigns  forever  to 
the  sole  and  only  proper  use  benefit  and  behof  of  them  the  said 
Daniel  Dubois  and  JMary  his  said  wafe  their  heirs  and  assigns 
forever  they  paying  rendering  and  yielding  yearly  and  year 
forever  the  just  fourth  part  of  the  quit  Rent  due  to  her  majestic 
for  the  above  mentioned  two  twelfth  parts  &  one  fifth  part  of 
a  twelfth  part  of  the  said  land  in  the  new  palls  in  witness 
whereof  the  said  Andre  Lefevre  Isaac  Lefevre  and  Jean  Le- 
fevre  have  hereunto  put  their  hands  and  seals  this  twenty- 
second  day  of  October  annoy  domini  1713. 

Andre  le  Fevre. 
isaac  le  Fevre. 
jean  le  Fevre. 

Sealed  and  delivered  in  the  presence  of  us 

Joseph  Hasbrouck. 
Solomon  hasbroucq. 
Jacob  hasbroucq. 

In  the  presence  of  me  Joseph  Hasbrouck  justice  of  the  peace 
W.  Nottingham  Clerk. 

Recorded  in  libra     *     * 

W.  Nottingham  Clerk. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  415 

It  is  interesting  to  note  that  the  names  of  "Httle  (in  Dutch 
klein)  bontekow"  and  "avienjer,"  which  have  come  down  to 
the  present  day,  were  at  that  early  date  appUed  to  certain  tracts 
of  land  along  the  Wallkill,  "little  bontekow"  being  the  Beaver 
place,  near  Springtown,  and  "avienjer"  a  piece  of  land  on  the 
west  side  of  the  Wallkill  a  short  distance  from  our  village.  It 
is  also  worthy  of  note  that  the  name  Bontekow,  applied  to 
lowland  along  the  Wallkill,  is  at  a  date  when  the  French  lan- 
guage is  still  the  common  speech  of  the  people.  This  would 
seem  to  indicate  that  the  name  was  of  French  origin,  and 
in  that  case  it  means  "neck  of  good  land,"  if  written  "Bon- 
ter-cou." 

Jean  LeFevre,  son  of  the  Patentee,  was  one  of  the  volunteers 
who  marched  to  the  invasion  of  Canada  in  171 1.  The  next 
year,  November  20th,  he  was  married  by  Dominie  Peter  Vas 
at  Kingston,  to  Catharine  Blanshan  of  Hurley.  They  located 
on  the  Paltz  Plains. 

Isaac  was  married  at  Kingston,  May  16,  1718,  by  Dominie 
Peter  Vas,  to  Marytjen  Freer,  daughter  of  Hugo  Freer,  Sen. 
They  located  at  Bontecoe,  about  four  miles  north  of  this 
village. 

Andre  married  Cornelia  Blanshan.  We  do  not  find  the 
marriage  recorded  in  the  church  records  either  at  New  Paltz 
or  Kingston.  Their  eldest  child,  Simon,  was  baptised  in  1709. 
Andre  kept  his  father's  homestead  in  this  village. 

The  names  of  the  three  sons  of  Simon,  the  Patentee,  are 
found  in  the  list  of  those  who  built  the  first  stone  church  in 
1718  and  in  the  list  of  those  who  were  assigned  seats  in  the 
church  in  1720.  At  the  later  date  it  is  noticed  that  their  sister 
Mary,  wife  of  Daniel  DuBois,  was  dead. 

Andre,  son  of  Simon,  the  Patentee,  who  married  Cornelia 
Blanshan  and  kept  the  homestead  in  this  village,  had  a  family 


4i6 


HISTORY  OF  XEJV  PALTZ 


TOMBSTONE   IN    THE  OLD   BURRVING   GROUND   IN    THIS   VILLAGE 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  417 

of  two  sons,  Matthew  and  Simon,  and  seven  daughters,  who 
were  known  as  the  "seven  sisters." 

In  the  Hst  of  mihtia  officers  in  Ulster  county,  in  1717,  we 
find  Andre's  name  as  sole  lieutenant  in  Capt.  Hoffman's  com- 
pany, which  embraced  New  Paltz  and  Shawangunk.  In  the 
same  list  the  names  of  his  brothers,  Isaac  and  Jean,  appear  as 
privates. 

Isaac's  name  appears  in  1738  as  corporal  in  Capt.  Zacharias 
Hoffman's  company,  and  at  the  same  date  appear  as  privates 
the  names  of  his  eldest  son,  Isaac,  Jr.  (w'ho  died  unmarried 
when  a  young  man),  and  of  his  nephews,  Abraham  and  Na- 
thaniel, sons  of  Jean,  and  of  his  nephew  Simon,  son  of  Andre. 
The  name  of  Matthew,  the  other  son  of  Andre,  does  not  appear 
and  he  had  probably  moved  from  New  Paltz  the  previous  year 
when  he  married. 

Matthew  moved  to  Bloomingdale  in  the  northern  part  of  the 
town  of  Rosendale  and  the  history  of  his  family  is  given  under 
that  head. 

Simon  married  Petronella  Hasbrouck  and  kept  the  old  home- 
stead in  this  village.  They  had  but  one  son,  who  was  named 
Andries,  Junior,  born  in  1740.  Simon  died  young  and  his 
widow,  who  long  outlived  him,  in  1771  sold  to  the  Reformed 
church  the  southern  part  of  the  present  churchyard,  where 
the  second  stone  church  w'as  shortly  after  erected.  The  "seven 
sisters"  married  as  follow^s :  Elizabeth  married  Jonathan  Du- 
Bois  of  Nescotack,  Mary  married  Conrad  Vernoy  of  Wawar- 
sing,  Sarah  married  Samuel  Bevier  of  Wawarsing,  Maritje 
married  her  cousin  Nathaniel  LeFevre  on  the  Plains,  Cathi- 
rintje  married  Simon  DuBois,  Magdalen  married  Johannes 
Bevier  and  Rachel  married  Johannes  Bevier  of  Wawarsing. 

Andries,  Jr.,  who  was  the  only  son  of  Simon  and  Petronella 
LeFevre,  kept  the  old  homestead  in  this  village  and  married 


4i8  HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z 

Magdalena  LeFevre.  They  had  no  children.  Andries  is  re 
membered  by  the  old  people  under  the  name  of  "Flaggus"  or 
"Uncle  Flaggus."  He  died  in  1811,  at  the  age  of  71  years,  as 
is  shown  by  the  tombstone  still  standing  in  the  old  graveyard. 
After  his  death  the  old  homestead  became  the  property  of 
Andries  DuBois  of  Wallkill  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth  LeFevre, 
who  was  a  sister  of  "Flaggus."  The  DuBoises  occupied  the 
house  until  the  present  brick  church  was  erected,  in  1839,  when 
it  was  torn  down  and  the  stone  went  into  the  church  foundation. 
This  ends  our  account  of  the  family  of  Andre,  the  eldest  son 
of  Simon,  the  Patentee,  the  male  line  of  the  son  Simon  having 
become  extinct  and  the  line  of  his  son  Matthew  being  given 
under  the  head  "Bloomingdale  LeFevres." 

The  Homestead  on  the  Plains 

Jean  (in  Dutch  Jan),  the  third  and  youngest  son  of  Simon, 
the  Patentee,  married  Catharine  Blanshan  and  built  his  house 
on  the  Paltz  Plains,  between  the  present  cemetery  and  the  rail- 
road track.  The  old  stone  house  was  torn  down  about  1885.  A 
clump  of  old  lucust  trees  marks  the  site  and  the  cellar  remains. 
In  this  house  we  may  suppose  that  Jean  lived  from  the  time  of 
his  marriage,  in  1712,  until  his  death,  in  1744.  Jean  left  one 
daughter,  Margaret,  who  married  Jacob  Hoffman  of  Shawan- 
gunk,  and  three  sons,  Nathaniel,  Abraham  and  iVndries.  The 
history  of  the  two  last  named  is  given  under  the  head  "Kettle- 
borough  LeFevres."  Nathaniel,  who  was  born  November  2, 
1718,  married  his  cousin,  Maritje  LeFevre,  and  kept  the  home- 
stead on  the  Plains.  In  the  list  of  slaveholders,  in  1755,  he  is 
set  down  as  the  owner  of  two  slaves.  In  the  tax  list  of  1765 
he  is  assessed  for  £23  and  his  mother  at  £3.  Nathaniel  and 
his  brother  Abraham  of  Kettleborough  were  both  members  of 
the   buildino-   committee   when    the   second    stone   church   was 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  419 

erected,  in  1772,  and  the  initials  of  his  name,  with  those  of 
other  members  of  the  building  committee,  are  still  to  be  seen 
in  a  large  stone,  which  was  doubtless  the  corner  stone  of  that 
church,  under  the  horse  block  at  the  south  end  of  the  present 
portico.  Nathaniel's  subscription  to  the  building  of  the  church 
was  ii8. 

In  1748  Nathaniel  obtained,  in  partnership  with  his  neighbor, 
Noah  Eltinge,  a  grant  for  a  tract  of  3,000  acres  adjoining  tiie 
Paltz  patent  on  the  south.  This  grant  led  to  a  long  dispute, 
it  being  claimed  that  part  of  the  tract  belonged  to  the  Paltz 
patent.  After  a  few  years  the  matter  was  settled  and  Noah 
and  Nathaniel  retained  the  land.  Nathaniel  kept  a  store  at 
his  home  on  the  Plains,  as  did  his  brother  Andries  at  Kettle- 
boro. 

Nathaniel  left  a  family  of  three  sons,  Matthew,  John  and 
Jonathan ;  also  two  daughters,  Margaret  and  Catharine.  John 
was  baptised  at  Shawangunk  in  1746,  Margaret  at  Kingston  in 
1743,  Matthew  at  Kingston  in  1749  and  Jonathan  at  Shawan- 
gunk in  1753.  Margaret  married  Daniel  Deyo,  the  first  of  the 
name  at  Ireland  Corners.  Catharine  married  Daniel  Jansen  of 
New  Paltz,  John  married  Eglie  Swart,  widow  of  Capt.  Simon 
LeFevre  of  Bloomingdale  and  moved  to  Owasco,  where  he  was 
probably  one  of  the  first  settlers  and  where  he  had  descendants 
living  at  a  recent  date,  but  none  we  believe  in  the  male  line. 

Matthew  retained  the  family  homestead  on  the  Plains.  He 
married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Daniel  LeFevre  of  Bontecoe. 
The  name  of  Matthew  LeFevre  appears  as  a  lieutenant  in  the 
First  Company,  Third  Ulster  County  Regiment,  Col.  John 
Cantine.  The  other  officers  of  the  company  are  New  Paltz  men. 
The  name  Alatthew  LeFevre  also  appears  as  a  lieutenant  in  the 
Fourth  Ulster  County  Regiment,  in  the  Revolution.  Col.  Johan- 
nes Hardenbergh  commanding.     The  only  other  Matthew  Le- 


420  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Fevre  was  the  one  who  moved  many  years  before  the  Revolu- 
tion to  Bloomingdale.  Probably  one  was  a  lieutenant  in  the 
Third  and  the  other  in  the  Fourth  Regiment.  The  name  Mat- 
thew LeFevre  also  appears  as  a  private  in  the  2nd  New  Paltz 
company.  There  was  no  other  person  at  New  Paltz  of  that 
name.  He  was  probably  a  private  at  first  and  afterwards 
promoted. 

The  names  of  Matthew's  brothers,  John  and  Jonathan,  appear 
as  privates  in  the  Second  New  Paltz  Company,  Capt.  Abm. 
Deyo,  Third  Ulster  County  Regiment.  Col.  John  Cantine. 

The  names  of  the  three  brothers,  Matthew,  John  and  Jona- 
than, appear  in  the  list  of  those  who,  in  1775,  signed  the  famous 
"Articles  of  Association,"  in  which  so  many  citizens  of  Ulster 
county  and  other  parts  of  the  State  expressed  their  hatred  of 
British  oppression  and  their  determination  never  to  be  slaves. 

We  have  stated  that  Matthew  kept  the  homestead  on  the 
Plains  and  John  moved  to  Owasco.  The  youngest  brother, 
Jonathan,  who  married  Catharine  Freer,  located  on  a  portion 
of  the  patent  which  his  father  had  obtained  and  his  house  was 
built  some  distance  east  of  the  old  homestead  and  some  distance 
west  of  the  present  residence  of  his  grandson,  Hon.  Jacob  Le- 
Fevre. Matthew,  the  oldest  son,  who  married  Elizabeth  Le- 
Fevre and  kept  the  homestead,  had  a  family  of  six  children, 
Moses,  Simon,  Catharine,  Nathaniel,  Gitty  and  Magdalen. 
Nathaniel  married  Margaret  Jansen  and  kept  the  old  homestead 

for  a  time,  but  afterwards  sold  it  to  Ackerman  and 

located  on  the  New  Paltz  turnpike,  about  one-fourth  of  a  mile 
east  of  Ohioville,  where  Dr.  Maurice  Wurts  long  afterwards 
resided.  Nathaniel  left  no  children.  Matthew's  son  Moses 
married  Margaret  \"ernooy  and  located  on  the  turnpike,  in  the 
town  of  Lloyd,  w'here  his  grandson  Moses  lately  lived.  His 
children    were    Elizabeth,    Cornelia,    iMatthew    and   Cornelius, 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  421 

the  last  named  of  whom  kept  his  father's  house  on  the  turnpike, 
and  the  other  three  spent  a  great  portion  of  their  days  on  the 
Paltz  Plains  not  far  from  the  old  stone  house  of  their  ancestors. 

Matthew's  daughter  Catharine  married  Roelif  S.  .  Elting 
and  her  sister  Gitty  made  her  home  there  until  in  old  age,  when 
she  removed  to  the  residence  of  her  neice,  Mrs.  F.  S.  Mc- 
Kinstry,  where  she  died  about  1885,  aged  nearly  100  years, 
and  retaining  until  extreme  old  age  the  vivacity  and  kindly 
interest  in  the  welfare  of  others,  which  we  love  to  think  formed 
a  delightful  trait  in  the  character  of  our  Huguenot  great- 
grandmothers.  The  family  Bible  of  Daniel  LeFevre  of  Bon- 
tecoe  passed  to  his  daughter  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Matthew  Le- 
Fevre, and  then  to  their  daughter  Gitty,  who  retained  it  during 
her  long  liftime.  Since  her  death  it  has  been  placed  in  the 
Memorial  House  in  this  village.  It  is  in  Dutch,  was  printed 
in  1 74 1,  and  contains  the  family  record  of  Daniel  LeFevre  in 
English,  commencing  with  his  marriage  to  Catharine  Cantine 
in  1751.  i' 

Simon,  the  remaining  son  of  Matthew,  married  Elizabeth 
Deyo.  They  had  their  home  at  what  is  now  the  LeFevre  Deyo 
place,  on  South  street.  Simon  was  a  captain  in  the  army  in 
the  war  of  1812,  but  his  company  was  stationed  on  Long  Island 
and  did  not  do  any  fighting.  Simon  left  a  large  family  of  chil- 
dren, as  follows :  Gitty,  Eliza,  Matthew,  Philip,  Nathaniel, 
Magdalen,  Maria,  Moses  and  Andrew.  Nearly  all  of  these 
children  located  at  New  Paltz  or  at  New  Paltz  Landing.  Gitty 
was  Jacob  Elting's  first  wife.  Eliza  married  Clinton  Has- 
brouck.  Magdalen  married  Nathaniel  J.  LeFevre.  Maria 
married  C.  Wynkoop.  Nathaniel  lived  at  New  Paltz.  Mat- 
thew located  at  Wurtsboro.  The  other  brothers,  Moses,  Philip 
and  Andrew,  engaged  in  navigation  on  the  Hudson,  Philip  and 
Andrew  long  running  a  barge  from  Highland  to  New  York  in 


422  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

partnership,  and  ]\Ioses  passing  a  great  portion  of  his  Hfe  on 
the  river  as  mate  or  captain  of  a  vessel. 

Going  back  now  once  more  to  the  old  homestead  on  the 
Plains,  we  will  take  up  the  line  of  Jonathan,  son  of  Nathaniel. 
His  wife  was  Catharine  Freer.  The  house  in  which  he  resided, 
some  distance  east  of  the  old  homestead,  was  torn  down  about 
1845.  Jonathan  left  two  sons,  Garret  and  Jonathan  J.,  and 
one  daughter,  Mary,  who  became  the  wife  of  Smith  Ransom. 
Garret  continued  to  till  the  ancestral  acres  and  Jonathan  located 
at  Middletown. 

The  Kettleborough  LeFevres 

The  Kettleborough  LeFevres  are  descended  from  Andries 
and  Abraham,  sons  of  Jan,  who  was  one  of  the  three  sons  of 
Simon  LeFevre,  the  Patentee.  Jan  settled  on  the  Paltz  Plains, 
in  a  house  between  the  cemetery  and  the  railroad,  torn  down 
about  1885. 

Jan  LeFevre's  name  appears  in  the  papers,  at  the  State 
library  at  Albany,  as  one  of  the  volunteers  in  the  Ulster  county 
company  that  marched  to  the  invasion  of  Canada  in  171 1.  This 
Ulster  county  company  was  commanded  by  Capt.  Wessel  Ten- 
broeck,  and  with  the  exception  of  Jan  LeFevre  and  Isaac  Has- 
brouck  almost  every  name  in  the  company  is  Dutch.  In  1728 
Jan  LeFevre's  name  appears  in  a  list  of  freeholders  of  New 
Paltz.  Jan  died  May  27,  1744,  as  stated  in  the  family  record 
of  his  son  Andries.  Jan's  son  Nathaniel  retained  his  home- 
stead on  the  Paltz  Plains  and  his  other  sons,  Andries,  born  in 
1722,  and  Abram,  born  in  1716,  located  in  Kettleborough  on 
a  tract  of  1,000  acres,  being  a  part  of  the  Thomas  Garland 
tract. 

The  Thomas  Garland  patent  was  granted  January  26,  1721. 
This  patent  included,  likewise,  a  tract  of  500  acres  at  Ireland 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  423 

Corners,    on    which    Daniel     Deyo,     son    of    Abrani     Deyo, 
settled. 

This  patent,  sometime  after  it  was  granted  to  Thomas  Gar- 
land, became  the  property  of  Garret  Kettletas,  whose  name 
appears  as  a  freeholder  in  the  precinct  of  New  Paltz  in  1728. 

Subsequently  this  tract  became  the  property  of  John,  Abram 
and  Peter,  sons  of  Garret  Kettletas,  and  of  Cornelius  and 
Henry  Clopper.  There  is  no  reason  to  suppose  that  any  of 
these  parties  moved  to  Ulster  county.  The  Kettletases  resided 
in  New  York  and  were  merchants  or  mariners.  The  Cloppers 
were  merchants.  Though  they  did  not  move  to  Ulster  county 
themselves,  they  sent  a  man  who  located  where  the  farm  of 
Asa  LeFevre  now-  is.  This  man,  whose  name  we  have  not 
learned,  did  not  make  a  success  at  farming,  and  in  1742  1,000 
acres  of  the  tract  were  sold  to  Jan  (in  EngHsh  John)  LeFevre, 
whose  brother-in-law,  Daniel  DviBois,  went  on  the  bond  with 
him,  as  is  shown  in  the  following  paper : 

Know  all  men  by  these  presents  that  I  John  Lefever  of  the 
Newpaltz  In  the  County  of  Ulster  and  Colony  of  New  York 
am  Held  and  firmly  bound  unto  Daniel  Duboys  of  the  Newpals^ 
In  County  and  Colony  as  aforesaid  In  the  sum  of  sixteen  hun- 
dred pounds  current  money  of  the  Colony  of  New  York  as 
aforesaid  to  be  paid  to  the  said  Daniel  Duboys  his  certain 
attorneys  Executors  Administrators  or  assigns  for  the  which 
payment  Well  and  truly  to  be  made  and  Done  I  do  bind  my 
Self  and  heirs  Executors  and  administrators  and  Every  of 
them  firmly  by  these  presence  Sealed  with  my  Seal  Dated  this 
Twenty  first  Day  of  ]\Iarch  In  the  Sixteenth  Year  of  His  Ma- 
jestes  Reign  annoq  Domini  1742-3. 

The  condition  of  this  obligation  is  that  whereas  the  above 
named  Daniel  Duboys  at  the  Special  Instance  and  Request  of 
the  above  named  bounden  John  Lefever  and  for  his  only  debt, 


424  HISTORY  OF  XEll^  PALTZ 

Duty,  matter  and  Cause,  together  with  the  said  John  Lefever 
is  jointly  held  and  firmly  bound  Unto  Gerret  Keteltas  of  the 
City  of  New  York  In  and  by  three  obligations  In  the  pennell 
sum  of  Eleven  Hundred  and  Eighty  pound  Conditioned  for  the 
true  payment  of  five  hundred  and  ninty  pound  Current  money 
of  the  Colony  of  New'  York  unto  the  Said  Gerret  Keteltas  his 
Executors  administrators  or  assigns  on  or  before  the  first  day 
of  June  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and  forty  three  the  sum 
of  four  hundred  and  ninty  pounds  and  the  sum  of  fifty  pounds 
on  the  first  day  of  June  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and  forty 
four  and  the  Sum  of  fifty  pounds  the  first  Day  of  June  then 
next  following  as  by  the  said  obligation  and  Condition  thereof 
(relation  being  there  unto  Had)  doth  and  may  more  fully 
appear  If  therefor  the  Said  John  Lefever  his  heirs  Executors 
administrators  Shall  do  well  and  truly  pay  or  Cause  to  be  paid 
to  the  above  named  Gerret  Keteltas  his  Heirs  Executors  ad- 
ministrators or  assigns  the  just  and  full  sum  five  hundred  and 
Ninty  pounds  Current  money  and  the  Collony  as  aforesaid  In 
Discharge  of  the  above  mention  obligation,  and  also  sa^'e  harm- 
less and  keep  Indempnified  the  Said  Daniel  Deboys  heirs  Ex- 
ecutors administrators  as  above  writing  from  all  Cost,  charges, 
Suits  or  troubles  that  may  happen  for  or  by  reason  of  his  being 
bound,  as  first  above  mentioned  then  this  obligation  to  be  void 
and  of  none  efifect  as  else  to  stand  and  remain  In  full  force 
and  virtue.  Jean  lefevre. 

Sealed  and  delivered  In  the  presence  of 
Benjamin  Dubois. 

Simon  Dubois. 

i 

Andries'  wife  was  Rachel,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  Dubois  of 
Blooming  Grove,  Orange  county,  and  granddaughter  of  Louis 
DuBois,  Jr.,  of  New  Paltz.     They  were,  married  October  20, 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  425 

1745.  Andries'  house  stood  near  Andries  A.  DuBois'  late  resi- 
dence and  was  torn  down  about  1850. 

The  traditions  all  agree  that  when  the  first  settlers  located 
in  Kettleborough  the  gravelly  soil  of  that  region  was  consid- 
ered very  poor.  There  was  not  sufficient  stone  for  building 
purposes  and  an  arrangement  was  made  b}'  which  stone  could 
be  procured  elsewhere.  There  was  little  timber  on  the  eastern 
portion  of  this  tract,  as  the  Indians  used  to  burn  over  the  land 
and  it  was  now  just  growing  up  in  bushes,  over  which  the  deer 
leaped.  In  those  old  days  wheat  was  the  staple  crop  and  a 
gravelly  soil  is  not  good  wheat  land.  There  was,  however,  a 
certain  proportion  of  clay  land,  and  when  a  farm  was  divided 
the  son  who  took  clay  land  w^as  obliged  to  accept  fewer  acres 
than  the  other.  One  of  the  stories  told  illustrating  the  hard 
lot  of  the  Kettleborough  farmer,  on  his  gravelly  acres  in  those 
old  days,  is  that  at  a  certain  wedding  the  Kettleborough  people 
were  not  invited  and  when  the  question  was  asked  why  they 
had  been  omitted  the  answer  was  made  that  they  had  enough 
hard  times  without  being  put  to  the  trouble  of  attending 
weddings. 

We  think  the  stories  about  the  early  settlers  in  Kettleborough 
being  poverty  stricken  are  much  exaggerated.  At  any  rate 
Andries  LeFevre  was  a  member  of  the  Provincial  Congress, 
which  met  in  New  York  in  1775  and  1776,  adjourning  in  May 
of  the  latter  year.  Andries  likewise  kept  a  store,  as  did  his 
brother  Nathaniel,  on  the  Paltz  Plains,  and  the  Hasbroucks 
at  Guilford  at  the  same  date.  Andries'  account  book,  as  well 
as  his  family  Bible  with  the  family  record  in  Dutch,  are  now 
in  the  possession  of  the  family  of  his  great-granddaughter,  Mrs. 
Josiah  P.  LeFevre.  The  account  book  is  also  in  Dutch  and 
the  items  are  quite  interesting.  After  a  while  he  discontinued 
the  mercantile  business,  assigning  as  a  reason  that  his  money 


426  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

was  "all  in  the  bushes,"  that  is  scattered  around  and  could  not 
be  collected  of  the  neighbors  who  had  bought  his  goods. 

Andries  LeFevre  lived  to  the  extreme  age  of  90  years.  He 
is  buried  in  the  family  burying-ground  now  on  the  John  H. 
Wurts  farm.  His  grave  is  marked  by  a  tombstone  erected 
long  afterwards  by  his  son  Johannes. 

Andries  left  a  family  of  two  sons  and  six  daughters.  These 
all  married  as  follows :  Nathaniel  married  Mary  Deyo,  Johan- 
nes married  Elizabeth  DuBois,  Gertrude  married  Philip  Deyo, 
Mary  married  Isaac  LeFevre  of  Bontecoe,  Catharine  married 
Wessel  DuBois,  Elizabeth  married  Zachariah  Bruyn,  Cornelia 
married  Solomon  Elting,  Sarah  married  Josiah  R.  Elting. 

It  is  quite  a  prevalent  idea  with  the  present  generation  that 
the  New  Paltz  people  in  Colonial  times  did  not  work  very  much. 
This  may  have  been  true  sometimes,  but  it  was  not  always 
the  case.  Mother  tells  us  the  following  story  as  related  by  her 
grandmother,  Elizabeth  DuBois,  daughter  of  Andries  DuBois : 
When  she  married  her  husband,  Johannes  LeFevre,  and  moved 
from  Wallkill,  then  called  New  Hurley,  to  Kettleborough,  she 
"moved  in"  with  the  family  of  her  husband's  father,  Andries 
LeFevre,  who  with  his  brother  Abraham  were  the  first  settlers 
in  Kettleborough.  Her  husband  had  six  sisters,  all  of  whom 
married  sooner  or  later,  but  these  young  women  before  they 
married  and  left  the  Kettleborough  home  had  learned  to  work, 
and  to  work  hard — they  would  hurry  up  to  get  the  washing 
out  of  the  way  in  the  forenoon  in  order  that  they  might  sort 
or  pare  apples  in  the  afternoon,  and  then  in  the  evening  they 
would  spin.  The  eldest  of  these  sisters  married  Philip  Deyo 
and  the  youngest  married  Josiah  R.  Elting,  and  these  alone 
have  a  large  number  of  descendants  in  New  Paltz,  while  the 
other  four  have  a  smaller  number  of  great-grandchildren  in 
this  vicinity. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  427 

Andries'  son  Johannes  (usually  called  Squire  Hons)  was 
baptized  January  18,  1761.  He  lived  at  his  father's  homestead 
for  a  number  of  years,  but  built  for  his  son  Andries  J.  and 
finally  lived  himself  in  the  house,  now  owned  by  his  great- 
grandson,  J.  Elting  LeFevre.  Johannes  was  a  young  man  in 
the  time  of  the  Revolutionary  war  and  performed  some  service 
for  the  patriot  cause  by  taking  a  load  of  arms  from  New  Paltz 
to  the  army. 

Johannes  left  a  family  of  two  sons,  Andries  J.  and  Nathaniel, 
born  November  5,  1786,  and  four  daughters,  all  of  whom  mar- 
ried as  follows :  Andries  J.  marnod  Hannah  DuBois,  Nathaniel 
married  Magdalene  Hornbeck,  Sarah  married  Matthew  J.  Le- 
Fevre, Rachel  married  James  Jenkins,  Petronella  married  Dan- 
iel A.  Deyo  and  Cornelia  married  George  Wurts. 

Andries  J.,  son  of  Johannes,  married  Hannah  DuBois,  daugh- 
ter of  Cornelius  DuBois,  Jr.,  of  Poughwaughtenonk.  Andries 
J.  occupied  the  house  and  farm  now  owned  by  his  grandson, 
J.  Elting  LeFevre.  The  house  was  a  very  fine  building  for 
those  old  days  and  the  farm  is  still  considered  the  best  in  the 
neighborhood.  Andries  died  at  the  early  age  of  thirty-five  and 
his  wife  about  ten  years  afterwards.  Their  children  were  Cor- 
nelius D.,  who  kept  his  father's  homestead ;  Johannes  A.,  who 
moved  to  Michigan;  Andries  A.,  who  located  near  Modena; 
Gertrude,  who  married  Roelif  DuBois,  and  Elizabeth,  who  mar- 
ried Josiah  P.  LeFevre. 

Nathaniel,  the  son  of  Johannes,  married  Magdalen  Hornbeck. 
They  lived  for  a  while  in  the  old  stone  house  of  Andries,  the 
pioneer,  and  afterwards  built  a  new  house  a  short  distance  south. 

They  had  a  large  family  of  sons  and  one  daughter,  as  follows : 
Johannes,  C.  Hornbeck,  Luther,  Andries,  DuBois,  Sarah  M., 
James,  Egbert,  Matthew.  Sarah  M.  married  Joseph  Has- 
brouck,  Andries  and  Johannes  emigrated  to  Kalamazoo  county. 


428  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Mich.,  in  their  youth  and  Matthew  in  middle  age.  DuBois 
tills  a  portion  of  the  ancestral  acres,  James  was  for  many  years 
a  preacher  of  -the  gospel  at  Middlebush,  N.  J.,  Hornbeck  and 
Luther  are  dead.     Egbert  died  when  a  young  man. 

Nathaniel,  the  son  of  Andries,  the  pioneer,  located  about  a 
mile  south  of  the  residence  of  his  brother  Johannes.  His  wife 
was  Mary  Deyo.  He  kept  a  store,  as  his  father  had  done  be- 
fore him,  and  raised  a  large  and  robust  family  of  sons,  as  fol- 
lows :  Andries,  Jonas,  Lewis,  Abram  N.,  Jacobus. 

Nathaniel  is  spoken  of  as  an  energetic  man,  who  made  money 
and  saved  it.  As  an  evidence  of  the  healthfulness  of  his  family, 
it  is  said  that  the  door  of  his  house  usually  stood  open  in  all 
sorts  of  weather.  His  house  burned  down  about  1825.  Na- 
thaniel's sons  located  as  follows : 

Jonas  located  at  New  Hurley.  He  had  one  son,  John,  who 
married  Nancy  Ransom. 

Nathaniel's  son,  Abraham  N.,  lived  near  Modena,  where  his 
son-in-law,  Andries  A.  LeFevre,  afterward  resided.  His  wife 
was  Sarah  LeFevre,  daughter  of  Isaac  LeFevre  of  Bontecoe. 
They  had  three  sons :  Josiah,  Nathaniel  and  Abm.  A.,  and  three 
daughters :  Maria,  who  married  Andries  A.  LeFevre ;  Rachel, 
who  married  Andrew  Brodhead,  and  Gertrude. 

Nathaniel's  son  Andries  lived  on  what  is  known  as  the  Jacob 
Westbrook  place  of  late  years.  He  had  a  large  family  of 
daughters,  all  of  whom  married. 

Nathaniel's  youngest  son,  Jacobus,  married  Elizabeth  Jan- 
sen.  They  lived  on  what  is  now  known  as  the  John  H.  Wurts 
farm.  Their  children  were  as  follows :  Maria,  who  married 
Josiah  LeFevre;  Blandina,  who  married  Roelif  Elting;  Eliza, 
who  married  Deyo  DuBois ;  jMargaret,  who  married  Cornelius 
Wurts;  Lewis,  who  married  Christina  Hornbeck;  Daniel,  who 
married  Ellen  LeFevre ;   Rachel,  who  married  Wm.  Deyo. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 


429 


THE  HOUSE  OF  ABRAHAM   LE  FEVRE,  ONE  OF  THE  FIRST  SETTLERS  AT 
KETTLEBOROUGH 


430  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Nathaniel's  son  Lewis  kept  his  father's  homestead,  an  old 
stone  house,  which  was  burned  down  and  rebuilt  as  a  frame 
house  many  years  ago.  Lewis  married  Rachel  Bell.  They  left 
but  one  child,  Nathaniel,  usually  called  "Sing"  because  he  was 
often  singing  to  himself. 

Going  back  now  to  Abraham,  brother  of  Andries,  the  other 
pioneer  settler  at  Kettleborough,  we  find  that  he  was  born  in 
1 71 6,  married  Maria  Bevier  and  located  at  Kettleborough 
about  1742.  His  stone  house  is  still  standing  and  is  now  the 
tenant  house  on  the  Solomon  Van  Orden  farm.  Abraham  left 
a  family  of  six  sons,  John  Solomon,  Noah,  Nathan,  Samuel, 
Philip,  and  four  daughters,  Catharine,  Magdalene,  Margaret 
and  Rachel.  Catharine  married  Daniel  DuBois,  Rachel  mar- 
ried Johannes  DuBois,  Margaret  married  ■- —  Vernoy  and 

after  his  death  Abm.  Bevier.  Magdalene  married  Andries  Le- 
Fevre,  usually  called  "Flagus,"  and  lived  with  him  in  the  old 
LeFevre  homestead  at  New  Paltz  village.  They  had  no  children. 

We  find  that  the  names  of  four  of  Abraham's  sons,  John, 
Solomon,  Noah  and  Philip,  are  recorded  as  soldiers  in  the  Revo- 
lution. Of  the  army  record  of  Noah  we  have  this  brief  ac- 
count :  He  was  a  sergeant  in  Brodhead's  Company,  Hathorn's 
Regiment,  Orange  County  Militia.  He  was  at  the  battle  of 
Stillwater — not  under  fire,  but  stationed  in  the  reserve,  within 
hearing  of  the  battle,  expecting  every  moment  to  get  the  order 
to  advance.  However,  night  came  on  before  they  were  needed, 
and  the  battle  was  not  renewed  the  next  day.  He  was,  we  be- 
lieve, a  three  months  man  and  returned  home  shortly  after  this 
battle  and  was  never  again  engaged.  Solomon  was  a  private  in 
the  same  company  with  his  brother  Noah.  The  two  other 
brothers,  John  and  Philip,  were  privates  in  Col.  John  Cantine's 
regiment.  Philip  was  stationed  at  one  time  in  the  fort  at 
Wawarsing. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  431 

John,  the  eldest  son  of  Abraham  the  pioneer,  married  Mary 
LeFevre.  He  Hved  in  the  stone  house  in  which  Johnston  Has- 
brouck  now  resides.  This  house  passed  from  John  to  his  son 
Matthew,  who  married  Sarah  LeFevre,  and  from  him  to  his 
son  John  M.,  who  resides  in  his  old  age  at  Peekskill.  Matthew 
had  one  brother,  Abraham,  who  lived  at  Ireland  Corners. 

Noah  married  Cornelia  Bevier  of  New  Hurley.  He  lived  in 
a  house  built  by  his  father  Abraham,  the  pioneer,  where  Na- 
thaniel Deyo  now  lives.  Noah  left  two  sons,  John  N.  (Capt. 
Hans)  and  Jonas  N.,  and  four  daughters,  one  of  whom  mar- 
ried Cornelius  DuBois  of  Marlborough.  The  first  named  son 
married  Sarah  DuBois,  daughter  of  Cornelius  DuBois,  Jr.,  of 
Poughwoughtenonk.  He  remained  with  his  father-in-law  for 
several  years,  until  the  death  of  the  latter,  when  in  18 17  his 
father  purchased  land  of  Charles  Brodhead,  to  which  he  moved 
and  there  he  resided  on  the  place  where  his  son  Josiah  lived 
until  he  removed  to  this  village.  Jonas  N.  married  Catharine 
Budd  and  after  her  death  Jane  Westbrook,  widow  of  Luther 
Hasbrouck.     He  occupied  the  homestead  until  his  death. 

Philip,  the  youngest  son  of  Abram  the  pioneer,  occupied  his 
father's  homestead,  and  had  twice  as  much  land  as  his  brothers 
each  had,  as  he  heired  the  entire  portion  of  his  brother  Solo- 
mon, who  did  not  marry.  Philip's  farm  comprised  the  present 
farms  of  his  grandsons,  Abram  and  x\sa  LeFevre,  and  the  Solo- 
mon Van  Orden  farm. 

Philip's  wife  was  Elsie  DuBois  of  Wallkill,  sister  of  the  wife 
of  his  neighbor,  Johannes  LeFevre  (Squire  Hans).  Their 
children  were  Abraham  P.,  Andries  P.,  Solomon  P.,  Magdalene, 
who  married  Mathusalem  Elting;  Maria,  who  married  Abra- 
ham Van  Orden,  and  Sarah. 

Abraham  P.  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Daniel  Jansen, 
and   occupied   his   father-in-law's    farm   after   his   death.     His 


432  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

second  wife  was  Maria  Elting,  widow  of  Dr.  Bogardus.  An- 
dries  P.  married  Magdalene,  daughter  of  Philip  Elting.  He 
lived  in  the  house  built  for  him  by  his  father,  where  his  son 
Asa  now  lives.  Solomon  P.  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Philip 
Deyo,  and  after  her  death  Jane,  daughter  of  Ezekiel  Elting. 

There  are  two  LeFevre  burying-grounds  at  Kettleborough, 
in  one  of  which  Andries  and  his  descendants  are  interred.  In 
the  other  the  descendants  of  Abraham  are  buried.  Andries' 
grave  is  marked  by  a  stone  erected  some  time  after  his  death 
by  his  son  Johannes.  The  burying-ground  has  been  kept  in 
good  order. 

In  1820  there  were  eleven  families  of  LeFevres  living  in 
Kettleborough.     The  heads  of  the  families  were  as  follows : 

Johannes  (Squire  Hans),  Nathaniel,  Lewis,  Jacobus,  John 
N.,  Philip,  Solomon  P.,  Andries  P.,  Noah,  Jonas  N.,  Matthew  J. 

The  LeFevre  Family  at  Bontecoe 

On  the  banks  of  the  Wallkill,  four  miles  north  of  this  village, 
on  the  farm  of  Simon  LeFevre,  stand  two  old  stone  houses. 
A  little  farther  up  the  Wallkill  is  the  cellar  of  another,  which 
was  torn  down  about  1825.  The  locality  is  dear  to  the  writer 
as  the  home  of  his  childhood.  The  first  half  dozen  years  of 
his  life  were  spent  in  the  northernmost  of  these  houses.  Here 
father  and  grandfather  and  great-grandfather  and  great-great- 
grandfather tilled  the  soil. 

The  surroundings  have  changed  considerably  since  the  days 
of  childhood.  But  the  house  is  there  and  the  Wallkill  is  there, 
and  a  portion  at  least  of  the  old  grove  of  pear  trees  on  the 
bank  of  the  stream.  The  well  is  unchanged,  and  the  low  cellar 
with  its  immense  beams,  and  the  old  loft,  and  the  curious  little 
closets  and  carved  chimney  front,  where  the  Franklin  used  to 
stand  in  old  davs.     The  Franklin  is  gone  and  most  of  the  orch- 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  433 

ard  is  gone  and  the  kitchen  has  been  torn  down,  but  most  in- 
teresting of  all,  there  still  remains  the  "Slazohonk" — the  square 
bunk,  let  down  from  the  chimney  side  in  the  living  room  of  the 
house,  open  in  the  evening  and  closed  up  in  the  day-time. 
Here,  when  the  writer  was  a  little  fellow,  three  brothers  lay 
side  by  side.  Here,  father  tells  us,  when  he  was  a  boy  also 
three  little  children  lay  side  by  side. 

The  "rift"  in  the  Wallkill  is  not  the  same  as  of  old,  for  the 
hateful  "rebel"  weeds  have  found  a  foothold  there,  but  the 
swimming  place  is  unchanged. 

But  from  a  description  of  the  place  we  must  pase  to  our 
account  of  the  houses  and  the  people  that  lived  in  them. 

The  old  houses  have  been  occupied  by  tenants  for  half  a 
century.  For  the  same  period  there  has  been  but  one  family 
of  LeFevres  in  the  neighborhood. 

But,  next  to  New  Paltz,  Bontecoe  is  perhaps  the  oldest  set- 
tled place  in  this  vicinity,  and  many  years  before  the  Revolution 
there  were  three  families  of  brothers — sons  of  Isaac  LeFevre, 
living  at  this  locality.  Scattered  over  Ulster  county  and  else- 
where there  is  now  quite  a  numerous  tribe  that  can  trace  their 
ancestry  to  one  or  another  of  these  three  brothers. 

Simon  LeFevre.  the  Patentee,  left  three  sons,  named  Andre, 
Jean  and  Isaac.  The  first  named  kept  the  homestead  in  this 
village ;  Jean  lived  in  the  house  on  the  Plains,  torn  down  about 
1885,  and  Isaac,  who  was  born  in  1683 — half  a  dozen  years 
after  the  first  settlement  of  the  place — moved  to  Bontecoe,  four 
miles  north  of  the  village.  The  date  of  his  settlement  at  Bon- 
tecoe was  about  1718,  when  he  was  married  and  was  35 
years  old.  His  wife  was  [Nlaria,  daughter  of  Hugo  Freer, 
Senior. 

The  original  house  in  which  Isaac  LeFevre  first  lived  at 
Bontecoe  was  on  the  bank  of  the  Wallkill  a  few  rods  north  of 

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434  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

the  southernmost  of  the  two  old  stone  houses  of  Simon  Le- 
Fevre,  now  standing. 

This  pioneer  house  was  destroyed  by  fire  when  Isaac's  chil- 
dren were  quite  small — the  oldest  about  ten  years  old.  The 
parents  had  gone  to  the  Paltz  on  a  winter's  evening  visit  to 
friends,  leaving  the  little  children,  four  sons  and  a  daughter, 
at  home  and  with  the  doors  locked. 

The  house  caught  fire  in  some  manner  not  related.  The 
oldest  son,  Isaac,  was  sometimes  able  to  unbolt  the  cellar  door, 
but  at  other  times  his  strength  was  not  sufficient.  In  this  case 
he  was  able  to  move  the  bolt  and  the  little  ones  escaped  and 
found  shelter  at  an  outbuilding — a  bee  house.  Here  their 
parents  found  them  on  their  return  from  their  visit,  safe  and 
unhurt. 

The  house  which  had  been  burned  was  replaced  by  a  new 
one  at  about  the  same  site.  Here  w^e  may  suppose  that  Isaac 
LeFevre  lived  and  died  in  peace.  No  Indians  troubled  the 
settlers.  Bontecoe  land  in  those  early  days  was  noted  for  the 
production  of  wheat.  Although  four  miles  from,  the  old  set- 
tlement at  the  Paltz,  we  may  suppose  that  the  family  of  Isaac 
LeFevre  was  not  lonesome,  for  the  whole  community  of  set- 
tlers had  a  joint  ownership  and  cultivated  in  common  the  "Bon- 
tecoes" — ^necks  of  good  land,  of  which  there  were  at  least  four 
lying  in  the  bends  of  the  Wallkill  between  New  Paltz  and 
Isaac's  house. 

There  is  still  in  existence  an  ancient  paper,  written  in  Dutch, 
w'hich  is  the  quit  claim  from  his  brothers  and  sisters  to  Isaac 
for  their  interest  in  the  property  at  Bontecoe. 

It  must  be  noted  that  these  first  settlers  cared  nothing  for 
the  upland,  and  it  was  not  until  the  last  century  that  nmch  of 
the  upland  was  cleared  off.     So  late  as  1810  there  were  but 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  435 

two  clearings  east  of  the  old  homestead  in  all  the  Gerhow 
neighborhood. 

There  are  no  tales  of  encounters  with  Indians,  and  no  very 
exciting  ones  of  wild  animals.  In  one  case  the  story  goes  that 
two  of  the  sons  of  Isaac  LeFevre  found  the  tracks  of  a  "pan- 
ther" around  the  house  in  the  morning,  after  a  heavy  fall  of 
snow.  They  followed  the  tracks  and,  after  a  weary  tramp, 
found  the  animal  in  a  tree. 

One  of  the  brothers  laid  his  gun  over  the  shoulder  of  the 
other  to  get  a  good  aim,  then  fired  and  killed  the  savage  beast. 

It  is  related  of  Isaac  LeFevre,  that  being  in  Albany  once  on 
some  business,  he  ran  a  foot  race  and  that  while  the  race  was  in 
progress  his  friends  to  cheer  his  drooping  spirits  cried  to  him 
in  the  French  language,  "Courage  Isaac."  He  won  the  race. 
One  son  of  Isaac,  who  bore  his  father's  name,  went  to  the 
Potomac,  lived  there  a  while,  then  returned  home  and  died. 
He  was  never  married.  Four  other  children,  three  sons  and 
one  daughter,  married  and  left  families.  The  oldest  son,  Petrus, 
was  born  in  1720,  December  25th.  He  died  in  1806,  aged  85 
years.  He  married  Elizabeth  A'ernooy  and  occupied  his  father's 
homestead.  The  next  son,  Johannes,  was  born  in  1722, 
October  loth.  He  married  Sarah  \''ernooy  and  for  him  a  stone 
house  was  built  about  150  yards  farther  up  the  Wallkill. 
Daniel,  the  youngest  son, .was  born  in  1725,  November  8th. 
He  married,  in  1750,  Catharine  Cantine,  who  was  the  grand- 
daughter of  Moses  Cantine,  who  married  the  widow  of  Simon 
LeFevre,  the  Patentee.  The  house  in  w^hich  Daniel  lived  was 
about  150  yards  down  the  W^allkill  from  the  one  in  which  his 
father  had  spent  his  days  and  which  the  oldest  son,  Petrus, 
continued  to  occupy. 

Besides  these  three  sons  mentioned,  Isaac  LeFevre  had  one 
daughter,  jMary,  who  married  Col.  Johannes  Hardenburgh,  Jr., 


436  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 


HOUSE  EUILT  BY   MAJ.   ISAAC  LE  FE\Ti£  ON   THE   SITE  OF  THAT  CF   UT; 
GRANDFATHER   ISAAC 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  437 

of  Esopus,  who  owned  a  large  tract  of  country  at  Swartekill 
and  saw  much  active  service  in  the  Revolutionary  war.  Isaac 
LeFevre  died  October  31,  1752,  aged  69  years.  He  was  buried 
in  the  Freer  burying-ground  about  two  miles  north  of  his  house. 

Petrus,  the  Oldest  Son  and  His  Descendants 

The  oldest  son,  Petrus,  occupied  his  father's  house  during  a 
long  life.  Tradition  says  that  Petrus  LeFevre  could  have 
claimed  the  entire  estate,  under  the  old  English  law,  but  that 
he  shared  it  equally  with  his  brothers. 

Petrus  died  in  1806,  at  the  age  of  85,  and  is  buried  in  the 
old  family  burying-ground  on  the  farm  of  Simon  LeFevre, 
Petrus  left  a  large  family  of  sons  and  daughters,  as  follows : 
Jacob,  Isaac,  Cornelius,  John  P.,  Sarah,  Jane  and  Ann.  Jacob, 
the  oldest  son,  married  Lydia  Deyo,  and  lived  near  this  village, 
on  the  other  side  of  the  Wallkill,  where  Jacob  Wurts  now  lives. 
He  was  the  father  of  Christopher  LeFevre  and  Tjerck. 

Christopher's  family  lived  after  his  death  in  this  village,  in 
the  house  now  owned  and  occupied  by  Josiah  J.  Hasbrouck. 

Petrus'  next  son  was  Isaac.  Major  Isaac,  as  he  was  called. 
He  married  Catharine  Burhans.  He  built  a  new  house  where 
his  father  had  lived.  This  was  the  third  house  on  that  site 
and  is  still  standing.  It  was  a  fine  house  in  its  day.  He  was 
a  noted  man  and  a  famous  surveyor. 

Major  Isaac  afterwards  moved  to  Rifton  and  built  a  large 
frame  house,  which  is  still  standing.  The  Major  was  one  of 
the  best  remembered  men  of  that  period.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Legislature  in  1803.  and  Supervisor  of  New  Paltz  in 
1807  and   1808. 

After  moving  to  Swartekill  he  was  Supervisor  of  the  town 
of  Esopus  from  1820  to  1825.  He  was  at  one  time  a  State  sur- 
veyor,  going   on   this   business   a  great   distance   from   home. 


438  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

About  all  the  surveys  in  this  vicinity  for  a  long  period  were 
made  by  him. 

He  was  for  a  time  the  owner  of  a  famous  race  horse  called 
the  Grand  Bey,  which,  we  believe,  was  never  beaten  in  Ulster 
county. 

Petrus'  next  son  was  Cornelius,  who  married  Maritje  Van 
Wagenen  and  moved  to  Creek  Locks  or  LeFevre  Falls.  He 
was  the  father  of  Peter  C.^  Isaac  C.  and  Washington. 

Cornelius  was  Supervisor  of  the  town  of  Hurley  from  1839 
to  1 84 1.  Hurley  at  that  time  included  a  considerable  portion 
of  the  town  of  Rosendale,  which  was  not  created  as  a  town 
until  1844. 

The  other  son  of  Petrus,  John  P.,  settled  at  first  at  Swarte- 
kill  and  afterwards  exchanged  property  with  his  brother  Isaac 
and  moved  to  the  old  Bontecoe  homestead.  His  widow,  whose 
maiden  name  was  Mary  Hardenburgh,  long  survived  him  and 
occupied  the  old  homestead  with  her  family  until  it  was  sold, 
about  1840. 

Besides  these  sons,  Petrus  left  three  daughters,  one  of  whom 
married  Samuel  DuBois  of  New  Paltz,  another  Charles  Har- 
denburgh of  Esopus,  and  another  married  Elias  Bevier  and 
moved  to  Broome  county. 

This  ends  the  history  of  the  most  central  and  oldest  of  the 
three  stone  houses,  as  far  as  it  was  owned  by  the  family  who 
built  it.  It  passed  into  the  hands  of  strangers  about  1840, 
and  from  that  time  to  the  present  has  frequently  changed  hands. 
It  is  now  owned  by  Simon  LeFevre. 

We  will  now  take  up  the  history  of  the  northernmost  of  the 
three  houses,  which  was  built  for  Daniel  LeFevre,  the  great- 
grandfather of  the  writer. 

Daniel  LeFevre  was  born  November  8,  1725,  and  died  Feb- 
ruary 10,  1800,  aged  74  years.     He  is  buried  in  the  old  family 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z 


439 


TREE   NEAR  CELLAR  OF  JOHANNES  LE  FEVRE  S   HOUSE 


440  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

burying-ground,  and  the  spot  is  marked  by  a  stone  of  the 
species  of  brown  sandstone  used  in  those  days.  Daniel  always 
lived  in  the  house  which  is  still  standing' — the  northernmost  of 
the  three.  Slavery  existed  in  New  York  in  those  days,  and  in 
his  will  Daniel  disposed  of  four  slaves.  We  have  no  record  of 
any  notable  events  in  his  life,  and  believe  that  he  lived  as  a 
quiet  citizen.  Not  long  ago  we  looked  over  his  will  and,  from 
the  expressions  contained  therein,  we  doubt  not  that  he  was  a 
pious,  God-fearing  man.  The  north  room,  now  standing,  was 
added  to  the  house  in  Daniel's  day. 

Daniel  had  two  brothers-in-law,  Johannes  Hardenburgh,  Jr., 
and  John  Cantine,  who  were  colonels  in  the  patriot  army,  and 
another  brother-in-law,  Matthew  Cantine,  who  was  a  member 
of  the  Council  of  Safet}-,  but  he  did  not  serve  himself  in  the 
army  and  was  too  old  in  fact.  Daniel's  Bible  in  Dutch,  con- 
taining the  family  record  in  English,  is  in  the  IMemorial  House 
in  New  Paltz,  likewise  his  old  arm  chair. 

Daniel  left  but  one  son,  Peter,  born  in  1759.  February  10, 
and  two  daughters,  Mary  and  Elizabeth.  Mary  married  Jona- 
than Deyo  and  lived  with  him  near  the  place  where  his  great- 
grandson,  Perry  Deyo,  lately  lived,  near  the  village.  Elizabeth 
married  Matthew  LeFevre  and  lived  with  him  in  the  old  home- 
stead of  Jan  LeFevre,  on  the  Paltz  Plains. 

Peter  LeFevre  continued  to  occupy  the  old  homestead  of 
his  father  Daniel.  By  his  father's  will  he  received  that  portion 
of  his  estate  lying  west  of  the  Black  Creek  swamp. 

Johannes  LeFevre's  House 

We  will  leave  for  the  present  the  history  of  the  descendants 
of  Daniel  LeFevre,  who  continued  to  occupy  his  homestead, 
and  pass  to  the  other  brother,  Johannes,  who  lived  all  his  life 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  441 

in  the  stone  house  farthest  up  the  W'allkill,  of  which  the  cellar 
is  still  seen  but  the  house  has  been  long  torn  down. 

We  have  stated  that  Johannes  was  born  in  1722,  and  that  he 
married  Sarah  Vernooy.  Johannes  died  June  27.  1771,  at  the 
comparatively  early  age  of  49  years,  and  was  buried  in  the  old 
family  burying-ground,  on  the  farm  of  Simon  LeFevre.  Jo- 
hannes left  but  one  child,  a  son  named  Isaac,  who  married 
Mary  LeFevre,  daughter  of  Andries,  the  first  settler  in  Kettle- 
borough.  Isaac  occupied  his  father's  homestead  all  his  life. 
He  died  in  middle  age.  leaving  a  large  family  of  children.  His 
widow  married  again,  her  second  husband  being  Capt.  Abm. 
Deyo,  who  was  a  widower  at  this  time,  living  in  the  old  Deyo 
homestead  in  this  village.  She  did  not  move  to  her  second 
husband's  home,  but  continued  to  reside  at  Bontecoe.  She  bore 
one  son  as  the  fruit  of  this  second  marriage.  This  child  was 
named  Abram.  His  mother  died  when  he  was  an  infant,  only 
a  few  days  old,  and  he  was  taken  on  a  pillow  to  his  mother's 
brother,  Johannes  LeFevre, .  at  Kettleborough.  Afterwards 
this  infant  became  Judge  Abram  A.  Deyo  of  Modena. 

The  family  of  Isaac  LeFevre,  after  the  death  of  their  mother, 
scattered.  Both  parents  were  dead.  The  farm  was  sold  to 
Benj.  Deyo,  who  afterwards  traded  it  with  Jacob  J.  Hasbrouck, 
who  thus  became  owner  of  the  old  homestead,  and  shortly  after- 
wards moved  to  Bontecoe  and  built  the  brick  house  which  his 
grandson  Luther  now  owns.  Soon  afterwards,  about  1830, 
this  old  stone  house  was  torn  down. 

This  Isaac,  son  of  Johannes,  was  an  only  child,  but  his 
family  was  large  enough  to  make  ample  amends.  His  children 
were  John  I.,  Andries,  Rachel,  Peter,  Daniel,  Sarah  and  Gitty. 
These  children  scattered  far  and  wide.  Daniel  settled  in  Dela- 
ware county,  and  two  of  his  sons  afterwards  carried  on  busi- 
ness in  Johnstown,  Fulton  county,  and  one  of  them,  Gilbert, 


442  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

resided  in  Albany.  John  I.  settled  at  Elmore's  Corner,  and 
afterwards  at  Highland.  Andries,  Peter  and  Rachel  located  in 
the  town  of  Wawarsing — the  two  boys  at  Greenfield,  on  land 
coming  from  their  grandmother  \*ernooy — Rachel  married 
John  Brodhead  at  Lurenkill,  father  of  Henry,  Andrew  and 
others.  Sarah  married  Abram  N.  LeFevre  and  lived  near 
Modena  in  the  house  now  occupied  by  H.  B.  LeFevre.  Gitty 
married  Dr.  John  Bogardus,  who  was  a  leading  citizen  of  New 
Paltz  in  1830.  John  I.,, the  eldest  son,  who  settled  at  Elmore's 
Corners  and  afterwards  moved  to  Highland,  carried  on  busi- 
ness on  the  dock.  He  ran  for  State  Senator  once,  but  was 
beaten  by  Wells  Lake.  He  was  Supervisor  of  New  Paltz  in 
1816  and  1817.  He  left  but  one  son,  Alexander,  who  for  many 
years  was  on  the  barge  running  from  Highland. 

This  completes  the  history  of  the  third  house  and  the  family 
who  built  it. 

The  northernmost  of  the  three  old  stone  houses  still  remained 
in  the  family  and  Grandfather  Peter  LeFevre  remained  the 
sole  representative  of  the  old  settlers'  stock.  He  was  of  pure 
French  blood,  and  was  a  tall,  spare,  dark-complexioned  man. 
Being  an  only  son,  he  was  well  educated  for  those  days.  He 
was  a  lad  of  seventeen  at  the  time  of  the  Declaration  of  Ameri- 
can Independence.  He  did  some  service  in  the  patriot  cause 
as  a  teamster,  going  with  a  load  of  arms  to  the  American  army. 
Part  of  the  time  during  the  war  he  had  charge  of  the  ferry  of 
his  uncle,  Moses  Cantine,  at  Ponckhockie. 

He  married,  in  1789,  Magdalen,  daughter  of  Roelif  J.  El- 
ting.  Grandfather  had  something  of  a  taste  for  politics.  He 
was  Supervisor  of  the  town  in  1797-8,  and  a  member  of  the 
Legislature  in  1799.  We  have  seen  the  curious-looking  old 
knee  breeches  worn  by  him  when  in  the  Legislature.  For  a 
long  time  he  was  one  of  the  associate  judges  of  Ulster  county. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  443 

and  in  that  capacity  transacted  a  great  amount  of  business. 
The  book  in  which  he  recorded  a  summary  statement  of  the 
cases  which  were  tried  before  him  is  still  in  the  possession  of 
the  family.  He  also  performed  a  great  amount  of  business  in 
the  way  of  drawing  up  wills,  deeds  and  legal  papers  generally. 
We  believe  that  most  of  the  papers  of  that  nature  in  New  Paltz 
were  written  by  him.  The  desk  on  which  this  work  was 
done  about  1800,  is  now  in  possession  of  the  writer. 

But  One  Family  Remaining 

As  the  northernmost  house  was  the  only  one  of  the  three 
now  left  in  the  family,  we  will  continue  its  history  a  generation 
farther.  Peter  LeFevre  left  four  sons,  Daniel,  Ralph,  Moses 
P.  and  Josiah  P.  Daniel,  the  eldest  son,  married  Mary  Blan- 
shan,  widow  of  Abm.  Hasbrouck,  and  settled  on  a  portion  of 
his  father's  estate,  where  his  son  Peter  D.  afterwards  lived, 
in  the  present  town  of  Rosendale.  Daniel  was  a  general  of 
militia  in  the  old  times,  and  a  Member  of  Assembly  in  1834. 
He  was  a  short,  stout-built,  black-eyed  man,  a  surveyor  as 
well  as  a  farmer.  Although  a  strong,  robust  man,  he  died  at 
the  early  age  of  forty-five.  Ralph,  the  second,  son,  married 
Rachel  Kiting.  He  lived  on  the  portion  of  his  father's  estate 
in  the  present  town  of  Rosendale,  where  his  son  Josiah  R. 
afterwards  lived,  near  his  brother  Daniel.  Afterwards  he 
moved  to  the  farm  in  Lloyd,  where  his  sons,  Peter  R.  and 
Josiah  R.,  afterwards  lived.  Though  like  his  brother  Daniel, 
a  robust  man,  he  died  at  the  age  of  forty-nine. 

Family  Characteristics 

We  have  alluded  to  the  practice  of  the  old  people  of  bestow- 
ing names  upon  the  clearings  which  they  opened  in  the  forest. 
The  name  "Vantyntje"  (spring  field)   still  is  borne  by  one  of 


444 


HISTORY  OF  NEIV  PALTZ 


IN    THIS    HOUSE    THE    WRITER    SPENT    HIS    EARLV    YEARS.       IT    WAS    UCCUPIED 
BY    HIS    FATHER,,    JOSIAH    P.,    HIS   GRANDFATHER    PETER   AND 
HIS  GREAT  GRAND-FATHER,  DANIEL  LE  FEVRE 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  445 

the  best  fields  on  the  old  farm.  The  name  "Maugerstuck" 
(poor  field)  has  been  dropped  for  the  more  pretentious  one  of 
fiat  meadow.  A  sandy  knoll  on  the  land  of  Abram  Ean,  a 
short  distance  south  of  the  LeFevre  burying-ground,  is  still 
called  by  the  Eans  Daim  Favre's  boivery.  At  some  distance 
east  of  the  public  highway  a  clearing  of  perhaps  twenty  acres 
was  made  about  181 5,  but  the  rest  of  Daniel  LeFevre's  land 
east  of  the  highway  remained  a  forest  until  a  comparatively 
recent  period. 

Farming  in  Bontecoe  and  at  New  Paltz  in  those  days  was 
very  much  as  it  had  been  for  the  hundred  of  years  preceding. 

Some  of  the  old  people,  instead  of  having  a  farm  in  one 
body,  had  a  piece  of  land  here  and  another  there.  This  came 
from  dividing  the  land  among  the  children. 

The  highways  were  not  fenced  until  perhaps  1825.  There 
was  but  little  travel  in  those  days,  and  when  people  journeyed 
they  had  to  stop  and  open  the  gates. 

We  spoke  of  Major  Isaac  LeFevre  building  the  southern- 
most of  the  stone  houses  still  standing.  He  also  built  a  barn 
on  the  same  premises,  which  was  torn  down  about  1850. 
Part  of  the  timber  of  this  old  barn  was  of  yellow  pine  and  was 
hauled  all  the  way  from  Greenfield,  in  the  town  of  Wawarsing, 
where  his  mother,  who  was  a  Vernooy,  owned  land.  This 
barn  was  torn  down  by  Josiah  P.  LeFevre,  and  some  of  this  yel- 
low pine  lumber  put  into  his  barn  which  he  was  then  building 
where  he  afterwards  resided.  We  can  not  imagine  why  it  was 
considered  necessary  to  draw  the  lumber  so  far. 

We  must  confess  that  as  a  general  rule,  the  old  people  at 
Bontecoe  or  elsewhere  were  not  apparently  inclined  to  over- 
work themselves.  Had  they  been  bent  in  that  direction,  the 
cellars  might  have  been  dug  deeper,  so  that  one  would  not  be 
obliged  to   stoop   so  much   in   entering  them.     Slavery,   as  it 


446  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

existed  here  and  in  the  South,  doubtless  prevented  the  whites 
from  exerting-  themselves  as  they  do  at  the  present  day.  What 
work  great-grandfather  Daniel  LeFevre  found  for  four  slaves 
to  do  on  no  greater  quantity  of  cleared  land  than  he  had  we 
cannot  guess.  As  an  instance,  perhaps  exaggerated,  of  man- 
agement in  the  olden  times,  it  is  related  that  the  well  on  the 
Petrus  LeFevre  place  near  by,  not  being  in  good  order,  instead 
of  deepening  it,  or  digging  another,  it  was  filled  up,  and  thence- 
forth, when  drinking  water  was  needed,  some  one  of  the  family 
paddled  out  on  the  Wallkill  and  sank  a  jug  down  where  the 
springs  bubbled  up  in  the  stream.  There  was  less  necessity 
for  hard  labor  in  those  old  days  than  at  present.  There  was 
little  market  for  produce.  The  horses  and  cattle  ran  in  the 
woods  and  stock  was  branded.  Grandfather's  branding  iron 
is  still  preserved  and  is  now  in  the  Memorial  House.  We  may 
imagine  that  snow  fell  to  a  greater  depth  then  than  of  late 
years,  for  a  pair  of  snow  shoes  of  the  olden  times  made  of 
thongs  of  deer  hide,  intersecting  each  other  and  stretching  from 
side  to  side  of  a  wooden  frame,  is  among  the  other  old  articles 
that  we  have  seen. 

One  of  the  undertakings,  lOO  years  ago  or  more,  was  to 
build  a  wall  a  part  of  the  way  across  the  Wallkill  and  put  in 
timbers  for  the  purpose  of  constructing  a  fish  weir,  just  below 
Daniel  LeFevre's  house.  But  the  wall  raised  the  water  in  the 
stream  so  much  that  the  project  was  abandoned. 

The  building  of  the  mill  at  Dashville  about  1810  was  another 
enterprise  of  considerable  moment   for  those  old   days.     The 

deed  for  this  property  was  procured  by  grandfather»of 

Hardenburgh,  and  the  mill  was  erected  by  him,  in  partnership 
with  his  brothers-in-law,  Philip  and  Ezekiel  Kiting.  Before 
that  time  handmills  had  been  in  use  although  not  in  New  Paltz, 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  447 

and  Levi  Schryver  informs  us  that  he  has  seen  a  handmill 
used  at  Swartekill  to  supply  the  neighborhood. 

As  a  general  rule  it  must  be  confessed,  perhaps,  that  the 
Bontecoe  people  in  the  Colonial  period  did  not  show  any  very 
remarkable  degree  of  enterprise.  But  on  the  other  hand,  if 
they  did  not  work  themselves  to  death,  at  least  they  lived  to- 
gether in  harmony,  none  of  them  sold  whiskey,  they  treated 
their  slaves  well,  no  family  quarrels  are  recorded,  they  lived 
on  good  terms  with  their  neighbors.  None  of  them  in  those 
old  days  were  as  rich  as  certain  members  of  the  Elting  01 
Hasbrouck  family  at  New  Paltz ;  but  on  the  other  hand,  they 
were  generally  quite  well  to  do — not  poverty  stricken  by  any 
means. 

Altogether  they  held  their  own  among  the  old  settlers  very 
creditably,  and  it  may  do  their  descendants  good  to  study  their 
characters  and  revisit  their  old  homes. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  old  people  of  the  LeFevre 
family  interred  in  the  graveyard  on  the  farm  at  Bontecoe,  now 
owned  by  Simon  LeFevre : 

Johannes  LeFevre,  d.  1771,  a.  49  years. 

Sarah  Vernooy,  wife  of  Johannes  LeFevre. 

Daniel  LeFevre,  d.  1800,  a.  74  years. 

Catharine  Cantine,  wife  of  Daniel  LeFevre,  d.  1799,  a.  72 
years. 

Petrus  LeFevre,  d.  1806,  a.  85  years. 

Elizabeth  A'ernooy,  wife  of  Petrus  LeFevre,  d.  1807,  a.  74 
years. 

Isaac  LeFevre,  son  of  Johannes  LeFevre,  born  1753. 

Peter  LeFevre,  son  of  Daniel,  d.  1830,  a.  71  years. 

]\Iagdalen  Eltinge,  wife  of  Peter  LeFevre,  d.  1823,  a.  57 
years. 


448  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

John  P.  LeFevre,  son  of  Petrus,  d.  1810,  a.  34  years. 
Mary  Hardenburgh.  wife  of  John  P.  LeFevre,  d.   1841,  a. 
59  years. 

Jane  LeFevre.  d.  1852,  a.  52  years. 
Catharine  LeFevre,  d.  1834,  a.  42  years. 
Zebedee  LeFevre,  d.  1836,  a.  ^t^  years. 

The  Bloomingdale  LeFevres 

The  first  settler  at  Bloomingdale,  in  the  northern  part  of  the 
present  town  of  Rosendale,  was  undoubtedly  Matthew  Le- 
Fevre, who  moved  from  the  LeFevre  homestead  in  this  village. 

Matthew  LeFevre  was  one  of  the  two  sons  of  Andre  Le- 
Fevre, who  was  one  of  the  three  sons  of  Simon,  the  Paltz 
patentee.  Matthew's  location  at  Bloomingdale  was  on  a  tract 
of  700  acres,  which  was  purchased  for  $700.  We  can  not 
fix  the  date  exactly,  but  it  w^as  about  1740,  at  about  which 
same  time  his  cousins,  Andries  and  Abrani  LeFevre,  located  at 
Kettleboro  and  about  twenty  years  after  his  uncle,  Isaac  Le- 
Fevre, located  at  Bontecoe. 

Matthew's  w-ife  was  a  Bevier.  His  house  is  still  standing 
at  what  is  now  called  Rock  Lock.  It  is  of  stone  and  was 
lately  owned  by  Benj.  Hardenburgh  and  occupied  by  tenants. 
Matthew  had  four  sons,  Conrad,  Jonathan.  Samuel  and  Simon. 
Each  of  these  brothers  married  a  Swart  from  Kingston  and, 
we  believe,  they  were  all  sisters. 

Matthew  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  3d  Regiment  of  Ulster 
County  Militia,  John  Cantine,  colonel,  commissions  being  is- 
sued October  2'^,  I775-  He  subsequently  became  a  captain. 
He  was  familiarly  called  the  "Old  Captain,"  and  took  his  four 
sons  with  him  to  the  army,  preferring  to  do  so  though  the 
voungest  was  not  more  than  fifteen  or  sixteen  years  of  age. 


HISTORY  OF  XEW  PALTZ  449 

One  of  the  sons  died  from  a  wound  received  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary war.  In  the  records  at  Albany  appears  the  name  of 
Matthew's  son  Jonathan  as  a  private  in  Col.  Cantine's  regi- 
ment. The  name  of  Simon  LeFevre  appears  as  a  lieutenant 
and  subsequently  a  captain,  commissioned  in  1779,  in  the  ist 
Ulster  County  Regiment.  This  was  Matthew's  son  Simon. 
Moses  P.  LeFevre  recalls  one  or  two  incidents  in  regard  to 
Matthew's  record  as  captain,  as  related  by  his  grand-mother's 
brother.  Col.  Cantine. 

Matthew's  four  sons  settled  as  follows :  Conrad  in  a  stone 
house,  part  of  which  is  still  standing  in  the  forks  of  the  creek 
(that  is  between  the  Wallkill  and  Rondout)  not  far  from  the 
powder  mill.  The  house  passed  from  Conrad  to  his  sons, 
Moses,  Adam  and  Jonathan  (the  last  named  of  whom  did  not 
marry),  and  all  three  brothers  continued  to  occupy  the  house 
of  their  father.  They  had  one  sister,  Affie,  who  married  Daniel 
Blanshan  and  moved  to  Western  New  York.  Lorenzo  Le- 
Fevre. of  Rosendale,  was  a  son  of  Adam. 

^Matthew's  son  Jonathan  occupied  the  original  homestead 
after  his  father's  death.  He  left  but  one  son,  Levi,  who  mar- 
ried a  Xewkirk.  Levi  is  the  father  of  our  informant.  Garret, 
and  of  Jonathan  J.  LeFevre  of  Creek  Locks,  formerly  justice 
of  the  peace,  deceased. 

Matthew's  son  Samuel  lived  in  a  stone  house  built  for  him 
by  his  father  on  the  top  of  the  Bloomingdale  hill.  He  died 
-when  a  young  man,  it  is  said,  from  a  wound  received  in  the 
Revolutionary  army.  His  widow  married  John  LeFevre  of  the 
Paltz  Plains  and  moved  with  him  to  Owasco,  in  western  New 
York,  being  doubtless  among  the  first  settlers  there.  Samuel 
left  one  son,  Simon,  who  married  a  Hendricks  and  left  a  family 
of  three  sons,  one  of  whom,  George,  resided  some  years  ago 
near  Cold  Spring  Corner. 

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450  HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z 

Matthew  (the  first  settler's)  son,  Capt.  Simon,  lived  in  a 
stone  house  built  for  him  by  his  father  on  part  of  his  tract, 
about  a  mile  north-east  of  the  Quaker  meeting  house  on  the 
Rosendale  Plains.  Simon  was  one  of  the  organizers  and  first 
elders  of  the  Bloomingdale  church,  which  was  organized  in 
1796  and  was  built  on  part  of  the  LeFevre  tract.  Simon's 
children  were  Anna,  who  married  Abm.  DuBois  (father  of 
Simon  L.  and  Daniel  A.)  ;  Magdalen,  who  married  Solomon 
Hasbrouck  (father  of  Alexander)  ;  Samuel  and  Matthew,  the 
last  named  of  whom  long  kept  the  lower  toll-gate  on  the  Paltz 
turnpike. 

All  of  the  LeFevres  of  the  first  and  second  generations  who 
settled  at  Bloomingdale  are  buried  in  the  old  burying-ground, 
on  the  Conrad  LeFevre  place,  in  the  forks  of  the  creek,  now 
owned  by  J\Ir.  Hardenbergh.  Most  of  the  original  tract  of 
700  acres  has  passed  out  of  the  family.  Jonathan's  place  was 
sold  to  Judge  Jonathan  Hasbrouck,  of  Kingston. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  451 


CHAPTER  XXXIV 

The  Auch moody  Family 

The  ancestor  of  the  Auchmoody  family  in  Ulster  county  is 
Gemes  Acmoidec,  as  the  name  is  entered  in  the  marriage 
record  on  the  church  book  at  New  Paltz.  The  record  is  in 
French,  translated  thus:  1731  Oct.  8,  Gemes  Acmoidec  mar- 
ried Mari  Doyo,  daughter  of  Christianne  Doyo  and  Mary  Le 
Conte.  The  bans  for  this  marriage  appear  in  the  Kingston 
church  record  as  published  Sept.  19,  and  the  record  is :  Jeames 
Auchmoide,  young  man,  born  in  Scotland,  and  Maria  de  Joo, 
young  woman,  born  in  New  Paltz  and  both  residing  there.  A 
few  months  earlier,  in  ]\Iarch  of  the  same  year,  ]Mr.  i\uch- 
moody's  name  appears  for  the  first  time  on  the  New  Paltz 
church  records  as  godfather  at  the  baptism  of  a  child.  There 
was  no  other  person  of  Scottish  nationality  who  settled  in  New 
Paltz  in  the  early  days. 

Mr.  Auchmoody 's  house  was  built  somewhere  in  the  Bonte- 
coe  neighborhood ;  at  least  he  owned  land  there.  James  Auch- 
moody and  wife  had  three  sons,  David,  Christian  and  Jacobus ; 
also  three  daughters,  Maria,  Elizabeth  and  Rachel.  David 
married  Maria  DeGraff  in  1764.  At  that  time  he  lived  in 
Dutchess  county,  but  afterwards  moved  to  Elmore's  Corners  in 
Esopus  and  finally  located  near  Plutarch,  where  his  grandson 
Jeremiah  lived  in  modern  times.  The  name  of  David  Auch- 
moody appears  as  one  of  the  enlisted  men  in  the  First  Regiment 
of  Ulster  County  Militia  in  the  Revolution.  Christian  Auch- 
moody located  in  the  present  town  of  Rosendale,  on  a  farm 
which  passed  to  his  son  Abraham  and  then  to  Abraham's  son 


452  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Jonathan,  who  spent  a  long  life  there  and  was  a  highly  re- 
spected man.  Jacobus,  the  remaining  son  of  Jeames  Auch- 
moody,  located  on  the  farm  now  owned  by  Alonzo  Neil,  in  the 
Middletown  neighborhood,  about  three  miles  north  of  our  vil- 
lage. He  married  Elizabeth  Smith  and  afterwards  Margaret 
Irwin.  They  had  but  one  son,  William,  who  did  not  remain 
at  New  Paltz. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  453 


CHAPTER  XXXV 

The  Budd  Family  at  New  Paltz 

Samuel  Budd  was  a  very  prominent  citizen  of  New  Paltz  for 
a  long  term  of  years  about  18 10.  He  had  a  wheelwright  shop, 
procured  the  establishment  of  a  stage  line  through  our  village 
and  had  an  inn  at  the  corner  of  Chestnut  and  North  Front 
streets,  where  Luther  Schoonmaker's  hotel  is  now  located  and 
the  fame  of  this  inn  extended  far  and  wide.  Samuel  Budd's 
father,  Thomas  Budd,  was  a  sea  captain  and  obtained  a  grant 
for  a  large  tract  of  land  where  the  city  of  Monmouth,  N.  J., 
was  afterwards  located.  From  some  technicality  he  failed  to 
get  or  retain  possession  of  this  land,  though  even  of  late  years 
efforts  have  been  made  to  secure  the  property.  Thomas  Budd 
lost  his  life,  and  the  privateer  vessel  which  he  commanded  was 
sunk  during  an  engagement  with  a  British  cruiser  in  the  Revo- 
lutionary war.  During  the  battle  of  Monmouth,  the  house  and 
other  buildings  on  the  Budd  property  were  burned  by  the  Brit- 
ish and  Hessians  and  the  family  scattered  to  the  winds.  Samuel 
Budd,  then  a  boy  of  ten,  fled  to  the  residence  of  an  uncle  in 
Philadelphia  and  did  not  see  his  mother  until  a  considerable 
time  afterwards. 

Samuel  Budd's  wife  was  Mary  LaRue.  They  were  married 
in  1796.  Five  children  of  the  Budd  family  grew  up  and  mar- 
ried. They  were  Hiram,  Wade  Hampton,  Catharine,  Gertrude 
and  Laura.  Hiram  married  Maria  Deyo,  and  as  his  second 
wife  Catharine  Ann  Smedes.  Catharine  Budd  married  Jonas 
LeFevre  of  Kettleborough.     Gertrude   Budd  married  Robert 


454  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Lawson  of  Newburgh.     Laura  Biidd  married  Joseph  Harris. 
Wade  Hampton  married  Martha  J.  Brundage. 

A  pamphlet  containing  a  history  of  the  Budd  family  has  been 
published.  Two  brothers,  named  John  and  Joseph,  came  to 
America  from  England  about  1632.  Another  brother,  Thomas, 
came  to  this  country  at  a  later  date  and  settled  in  New  Jersey, 
Samuel  Budd,  who  lived  in  New  Paltz,  was  descended  from 
Thomas  Budd. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  455 


CHAPTER  XXXVI 

The  Hardenbergh  Family 

The  Hardenbergh  family  has  been  one  of  the  most  respected 
and  influential  in  Ulster  county,  its  members  occupying  posi- 
tions of  trust  and  responsibility  in  church  and  state,  in  peace 
and  war.  Of  late  years  there  have  been  comparatively  few  of 
the  name  in  Ulster  county. 

Dr.  Corwin  in  his  last  edition  of  "The  Alanuel  of  the  Re- 
formed Church"  says : 

Sir  Johannes  (Hardenbergh)  was  knighted  by  Queen  Anne 
at  the  recommendation  of  the  Duke  of  ^Marlborough  for  gal- 
lantry at  the  decisive  battle  of  Blenheim.  With  the  order  of 
Knighthood  he  also  received  the  patent  which  bears  his  name 
and  which  comprised  a  considerable  portion  of  what  now  con- 
stitutes the  counties  of  Ulster,  Delaware  and  Sullivan  in  the 
state  of  New  York. 

In  signing  his  name,  Johannes  Hardenbergh  sometimes 
simply  signed  "Hardenberg"  as  was  the  custom  with  those  in 
England  who  held  titles. 

The  Hardenbergh  family  is  of  German  origin  and  the  ruins 
of  the  Hardenbergh  castle  ace  still  pointed  out  near  Nordheim, 
in  Germany.  Gerrit  Jans  Hardenbergh,  the  progenitor  of  the 
family  in  Ulster  county,  came  to  America  with  his  father  from 
Maarden,  near  Utrecht,  in  the  Netherlands.  He  first  appears 
on  record  at  Albany  in  1667.  His  wife  was  Jeapie  Schepmoes. 
Their  son  Johannes  became  an  owner  of  real  estate  in  the  vil- 
lage of  Kingston  in   1689.  was  commissioned  high  sheriff  of 


456  HISTORY  OF  XEW  PALTZ 

Ulster  county  by  Gov.  Leisler  in  1690,  and  again  by  Gov. 
Lovelace  in  1709.  He  was  commissioned  as  major  in  the 
Ulster  county  regiment  in  1728,  and  was  afterwards  a  colonel 
in  the  same  regiment.  He  was  one  of  the  patentees  in  the  great 
or  Hardenbergh  Patent,  by  which  an  immense  tract,  estimated 
at  2,000,000  acres  in  the  present  counties  of  Ulster,  Orange, 
Greene,  Delaware  and  Sullivan  was  granted  by  Queen  Ann  in 
1708.  There  was  considerable  dissatisfaction  among  the  In- 
dians for  a  long  term  of  }ears  at  the  granting  of  so  large  a 
tract,  but  they  became  satisfied  on  the  payment  of  an  additional 
sum. 

By  his  wife,  Catharine  Rutzen,  he  had  a  large  family  of  sons 
and  daughters.  Two  of  the  sons  married  New  Paltz  women 
and  settled  within  the  bounds  of  the  New  Paltz  congregation, 
although  but  one  of  them,  Abraham,  lived  in  the  New  Paltz 
precinct,  his  home  being  at  Guilford.  The  brother  Johannes 
lived  at  what  is  now  Rosendale  village.  Other  members  of  the 
family  located  elsewhere. 

Abraham,  who  was  born  in  1706,  married  ^larytje  Roosa, 
daughter  of  Nicholas  Roosa,  who  had  moved  from  Hurley  to 
New  Paltz.  After  her  death  he  married,  in  1752,  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  Joseph  Hasbrouck  of  Guilford  and  widow  of  James 
Gasherie.  Abraham  Hardenbergh's  house  was  built  on  the 
Wallkill,  a  short  distance  below  Tuthill  and  commanded  a  fine 
view  of  the  stream.  A  very  large  tract  of  land  in  this  vicinity 
had  been  granted  to  Jacob  Rutzen,  the  father  of  Abraham's 
mother.  The  portion  of  the  tract  on  which  the  house  stood 
descended  in  the  Hardenbergh  family  for  several  generations 
to  Mrs.  Crines  Jenkins.  The  old  stone  house  has  now  tumbled 
into  ruins.     The  land  is  owned  by  Josiah  LeFevre. 

Abraham  Hardenbergh  was  a  man  of  wealth  and  influence. 
He  was  Supervisor  of  the  town  of  New  Paltz  from  1751  to 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  457 

1761  and  again  in  1770.  He  was  one  of  the  Justices  of  the 
Peace  of  the  county  in  1766.  In  the  Ust  of  slave-holders  in 
1755  he  is  set  down  as  the  owner  of  seven  slaves,  a  number 
onl}^  equalled  by  one  other  resident  of  the  town,  Solomon  Du- 
Bois,  who  likewise  owned  seven  slaves.  In  the  tax  list  of  1765 
Abraham's  name  appears  as  Supervisor,  and  the  amount  of  his 
assessment  is  exceeded  only  by  that  of  Col.  Abraham  Has- 
brouck,  of  Kingston,  for  his  Guilford  farm,  and  by  Josiah  El- 
ting  of  the  village.     In  1759  he  was  an  elder  in  the  church. 

The  children  of  Abraham  Hardenbergh  by  his  first  wife  were 
Johannes,  baptized  at  Kingston  in  1743,  and  Sarah,  also  bap- 
tized at  Kingston.  The  children  by  the  second  wife  were 
Nicholas,  Elias,  Maritje  and  Rachel,  all  baptized  at  New  Paltz 
from  1753  to  1758.  Abraham  died  1771.  His  name  does  not 
appear  on  the  subscription  for  the  erection  of  the  second  stone 
church  in  1771,  but  the  names  of  his  widow  and  son  John  A. 
appear. 

From  Abraham  Hardenbergh  the  farm  at  Guilford  passed  to 
his  eldest  son,  Johannes,  who  wrote  his  name  John  A.  Elias 
married  and  had  his  residence  somewhere  within  the  congre- 
gation, as  we  find  his  name  on  the  church  book.  Where  the 
other  children  lived  we  do  not  know.  John  A.  was  a  captain  in 
the  patriot  army  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  serving  in  the  Third 
Ulster  County  Regiment,  John  Cantine,  colonel.  His  name 
also  appears  as  lieutenant  in  the  Fourth  Ulster  County  Regi- 
ment, of  which  his  cousin,  Johannes  Hardenberg  of  Swarte- 
kill,  was  colonel  a  part  of  the  time.  His  wife  was  Rachel, 
daughter  of  his  neighbor,  Hendricus  DuBois. 

The  children  of  John  A.  Hardenbergh  and  his  wife,  Rachel 
DuBois,  were  Marichie,  born  in  1771 ;  Jacob,  born  in  1780; 
Charles,  born  in  1782;  Alexander,  born  in  1784,  and  Abraham, 
born  in  1777.     The  last  named  built  on  the  ancestral  estate  the 


458  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

fine  old  brick  house,  near  the  Guilford  church,  long  unoccupied 
and  now  commencing  to  tumble  into  ruins.  Abraham,  who 
wrote  his  name  Abraham  J.,  married  Alargaret  DuBois  and  his 
brother  Jacob  married  Jane  DuBois,  both  of  whom  were  daugh- 
ters of  Cornelius  DuBois,  Jr.,  of  Poughwoughtenonk. 

It  is  related  that  the  parents  wanted  the  last  named  young 
woman  to  marry  another  young  man  and  that  she  jumped  out 
of  a  window  and  then  ran  away  from  home  in  her  every-day 
dress  to  marry  the  man  of  her  choice.  Her  husband  died 
young.  Alexander  became  a  doctor.  He  died  from  an  acci- 
dent, his  neck  being  broken  by  a  fall  from  his  horse,  which 
stumbled  over  a  log.  Jacob  left  one  son,  Jacob,  and  one  daugh- 
ter, who  married  Crines  Jenkins. 

The  brother  Charles  became  a  minister,  was  settled  at  War- 
wick, N.  Y.,  Bedminster,  N.  J.,  and  was  a  colleague  of  Rev. 
Dr.  Thomas  Dewitt  in  the  collegiate  churches  in  New  York. 
He  was  one  of  the  trustees  of  Rutgers  College. 

Abraham  J.  Hardenbergh,  who  built  the  brick  house,  was  a 
member  of  the  Legislature  in  1813.  In  the  war  of  1812  he 
was  a  colonel  of  militia  and  was  able  to  get  part  of  his  men 
across  the  Niagara  river,  which  was  more  than  some  others 
did,  when  the  invasion  of  Canada  was  made. 

It  is  a  striking  illustration  of  the  lack  of  all  interest  in  an 
honorable  military  career  that  was  felt  in  the  days  of  our  grand- 
fathers, that  Abm.  J.  Hardenbergh  subsequently  had  two 
butcher  knives  made  out  of  the  sword  that  he  carried  in  the 
war  of  181 2.  What  a  contrast  with  the  feeling  of  pride,  with 
which  the  people  of  to-day  look  upon  the  military  record  of 
their  ancestors ! 

The  sons  of  Abm.  J.  Hardenbergh  and  his  wife,  Margaret 
DuBois,  were  Charles,  David,  Josiah  and  Ditmas.  There  was 
only  one  daughter,  Gertrude,  who  married  Aldert  Schoonmaker 


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46o  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

and  lived  in  this  village.  The  son  Charles  became  a  doctor 
and  settled  at  Port  Jervis ;  David  went  to  Michio-an ;  Ditmas 
located  at  Ellenville;  Josiah  settled  on  the  farm  of  his  father 
at  Pecanisink  in  Shawangunk  and  there  his  father  likewise 
lived  in  his  latter  days. 

CoL.  Johannes  Hardenbergh  of  Rosendale 

Going  back  now  to  Col.  Johannes  Hardenbergh  we  shall 
make  but  brief  mention  of  his  family,  because  he  did  not  live 
within  the  precinct  of  New  Paltz,  although  included  in  the 
congregation  of  the  New  Paltz  church. 

Johannes  Hardenbergh,  of  Rosendale,  was  Colonel  of  the 
First  Regiment  of  Ulster  County  Militia  for  twenty  years, 
was  a  member  of  the  Colonial  Assembly  from  iy42,  to  1750, 
and  of  the  State  Legislature  in  1781  and  1782,  and  he  was  a 
member  of  the  First  Provincial  Congress.  He  repeatedly 
served  as  an  elder  in  the  New  Paltz  church,  acting  in  that 
capacity  as  a  delegate  to  the  Conference  in  New  York,  when 
the  differences  between  the  Coetus  and  Conferentie  parties 
were  harmonized. 

A  few  years  before  his  death,  when  General  Washington, 
in  June,  1783,  visited  the  county  of  Ulster,  Colonel  Harden- 
bergh entertained  the  General  and  Mrs.  Washington,  with 
Governor  and  Mrs.  Clinton,  at  his  residence  in  Rosendale. 

The  wife  of  Col.  Johannes  Hardenbergh,  of  Rosendale,  was 
Maria  DuBois,  who  was  born  in  1706  and  was  the  daughter  of 
Louis  DuBois,  Jr..  of  Nescatack,  in  the  town  of  New  Paltz. 
Their  children  were :  Johannes,  born  in  1729 ;  Lewis,  born  in 
1 73 1,  married  Catharine  Waldron ;  Charles,  born  in  1733, 
married  Catharine  Smedes;  Jacob  Rutze,  born  in  1736,  mar- 
ried   Dina   VanBergh,    widow    of    Rev.    John    Frelinghuysen ; 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  461 

Rachel,  born  in  1739,  married  Rev.  Hermans  Myer,  D.  D. ; 
Catharine,  born  in  1741 ;  Gerardus,  born  in  1744,  married 
Nancy  Ryerson. 

Jacob  Rutze  Hardenbergh  became  a  minister  of  the  gospel, 
settled  first  in  New  Jersey  and  afterwards  over  the  churches 
at  Marbletown,  Rochester  and  Wawarsing.  He  was  the  first 
president  of  Queens,  now  Rutgers  College. 

Johannes  Hardenbergh,  Jr.,  eldest  son  of  Col.  Johannes  Har- 
denbergh of  Rosendale,  located  at  Swartekill,  a  short  distance 
north  of  Rifton.  His  house  we  believe  is  still  standing  a  short 
distance  east  of  the  highway.  His  wife  was  ]\Iary  LeFevre, 
daughter  of  Isaac  LeFevre  of  Bontecoe. 

In  the  Revolutionary  war  he  served  a  great  portion  of  the 
time  as  lieutenant-colonel  of  the  4th  Ulster  County  Regiment, 
of  which  Jonathan  Hasbrouck  of  Newburgh  was  colonel.  On 
account  of  the  ill  health  of  the  colonel  the  regiment  was  a  con- 
siderable portion  of  the  time  under  the  command  of  the  lieu- 
tenant-colonel.    In  1779  he  received  his  commission  as  colonel. 

Sojourner  Truth,  the  famous  negro  woman,  who  acquired  a 
great  reputation  as  a  public  speaker  and  died  in  Chicago  about 
1870,  after  having  long  passed  the  century  mark,  was  in  her 
early  days  a  slave  in  the  family  of  Colonel  Hardenbergh  at 
Swartekill  and  related  that  she  and  a  number  of  sheep  were 
once  sold  for  $100. 

There  was  a  standing  dispute  between  New  Paltz  people 
and  the  Hardenberghs  as  to  the  boundary  line  of  the  respective 
patents.  The  Hardenberghs  at  Swartekill  claimed  the  land  up 
to  about  where  Perrine's  Bridge  is  located.  The  Paltz  people 
claimed  that  the  surveyor  had  been  bribed  by  the  present  of  a 
cow  to  run  a  false  line  and  that  the  Paltz  Patent  really  included 
the  valuable  water  privilege  at  Dashville  Falls.  But  the  Har- 
denberghs retained  Dashville  Falls  till  about  1810,  when  the 


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The  original  of  this  map  is  in  the  town  clerk's  office  at  New  Paltz.  It  was  made  in  1709, 
one  year  after  the  grant  of  the  Hardenhers^h  Patent 

The  bends  in  the  Wallkill  are  not  laid  down  accurately  on  the  map  and  probably  the 
angle  in  the  north  line  of  the  Patent  is  wliat  the  New  Paltz  people  denounced  as  the  run- 
ning of  a  false  line  to  give  the  Hardenbcrghs'  the  water  privilege  at  Dashville  Falls,  the 
surveyor  having  been  bribed,  as  the  New  Paltz  people  claimed,  by  the  present  of  a  cow. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  463 

privilege  was  purchased  by  Peter  LeFevre  of  Bontecoe  of  his 
uncle,  Johannes  Hardenbergh,  Jr.  Peter  LeFevre  proceeded 
with  his  brother-in-law,  Ezekiel  Eltinge,  to  build  the  mill  torn 
down  a  short  time  ago.  Some  time  previous  the  Hardenberghs 
had  built  a  mill  at  Swartekill,  which  was  one  of  the  first  in 
this  county.  The  sons  of  Johannes  Hardenbergh,  Jr.,  of 
Swartekill,  and  Mary  LeFevre,  his  wife,  were  Issac,  Peter, 
Charles  and  Louis.  Peter  moved  to  Pennsylvania,  Isaac  went 
to  Catskill,  where  he  became  a  merchant  and  was  a  prominent 
man.  Charles  resided  in  the  neighborhood.  He  is  the  ancestor 
of  the  late  Benj.  F.  Hardenbergh  of  Rock  Lock.  Louis  was 
a  blacksmith  by  trade.  He  lived  part  of  the  time  on  the  paternal 
estate  at  Swartekill.  Afterwards  he  had  a  shop  at  Bontecoe 
north  of  the  lane  leading  to  the  old  house  of  Simon  LeFevre. 
Louis  had  three  sons,  Richard,  Simon  and  John.  Richard  is 
well  remembered  by  the  old  men  of  the  present  generation.  He 
resided  for  a  time  at  New  Paltz  and  w^as  the  father  of  Hon. 
Jacob  Hardenbergh  and  of  Louis  Hardenbergh  of  Gardiner, 
who  until  his  death,  two  or  three  years  ago,  occupied  the  farm 
purchased  by  his  father  about  1830. 


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CHAPTER  XXXVII 

The  Wurts  Family 

The  Wurts  family  is  of  Swiss  origin.  The  ancestor  of  the 
family  at  New  Paltz  was  George  Wirtz,  M.  D.,  who  was  the 
first  physician  in  the  place.  He  was  a  near  relative  of  the 
Goetschius  family,  which  was  likewise  of  Swiss  blood,  three  of 
whose  members  served  the  New  Paltz  church,  acceptably  in 
the  early  days,  the  first  as  a  supply  and  the  others  as  regularly 
ordained  pastors.  Maurities  Goetschius,  the  second  of  the  name 
to  occupy  the  pulpit  at  New  Paltz,  served  the  people  here  as  a 
physician,  as  well  as  pastor,  and  was  known  as  the  "doctor 
dominie."  Dr.  George  Wirtz's  name  first  appears  on  the  New 
Paltz  records  in  1773,  when  he  married  Esther,  daughter  of 
Major  Jacob  Hasbrouck.  Rev.  Stephen  Goetschius  succeeded 
his  uncle,  Rev.  Alaurities  Goetschius,  as  pastor  of  the  church 
in  1775.  Dr.  Wirtz  was  on  the  ground  at  the  time  of  the 
arrival  of  the  new  pastor,  who  was  his  cousin,  and  may  have 
come  before  the  death  of  his  uncle,  the  "doctor-dominie,"  which 
occurred  in  1771.  He  united  with  the  church  at  the  village  of 
New  Paltz  in  1776  by  certificate  from  the  church  at  Shawan- 
gunk.  It  seems  certain,  therefore,  that  he  must  have  lived  at 
Shawangunk  at  least  a  short  time  before  coming  to  New  Paltz. 
His  uncle  had  his  home  at  Shawangunk  and  preached  there,  as 
well  as  at  New  Paltz. 

Dr.  Wirtz  was  doubtless  a  busy  man,  with  a  large  territory 
to  travel  over  in  visiting  patients.  So  when  he  thought  of 
selecting  a  partner  for  life  he  could  not  spend  much  time  in 
courtship.     The  story,  as  we  have  heard  it  related,  is  that  he 


HISTORY  OF  XEIV  PALTZ  465 

made  his  proposal  of  marriage  without  prehminary  and  com- 
pleted it  with  the  statement  that  if  it  was  accepted  he  would 
take  tea  with  the  family.  The  proposal  met  with  an  affirmative 
response  and  the  young  doctor  took  tea  with  the  family  in  the 
old  steep-roofed  house,  now  the  "New  Paltz  ^Memorial  House," 
in  which  they  resided. 

Dr.  Wirtz  built  as  his  residence  the  house  at  the  foot  of  Main 
street,  torn  down  about  1880,  the  site  of  which  is  now  occupied 
by  the  Riverside  Cottage.  His  name  appears  as  one  of  the 
signers  of  the  Articles  of  Association  at  the  outbreak  of  the 
Revolutionary  war.  He  was  a  deacon  in  the  church  in  1776 
and  an  elder  in  1797. 

The  children  of  Dr.  George  ^^'irtz  and  his  wife,  Esther  Has- 
brouck,  were  Jacob  (born  in  1776),  Janetje,  Catharine,  Mauri- 
tius (born  in  1784). 

Dr.  Wirtz  died  in  1802.  The  tombstones  in  the  old  grave- 
yard marking  the  last  resting  place  of  himself  and  wife  bear 
these  inscriptions : 

In  memory  of  George  Wirtz.  M.  D.,  who  departed  this  life 
April  20,  1802,  aged  55  years,  5  months  and  6  days : 

In  memory  of  Esther  Hasbrouck,  daughter  of  ]Maj.  Jacob 
Hasbrouck  and  relict  of  doctor  George  Wirtz,  who  died  June 
4th,  1826,  aged  68  years,  4  months  and  26  days. 

The  sons,  Jacob  and  Maurities,  both  became  doctors.  The 
first  named  married  Catharine  DuBois.  During  his  long  life 
he  attended  to  the  duties  of  his  profession  as  a  physician,  riding 
about  the  country  on  horsel^ack,  according  to  the  custom  of 
those  days,  to  visit  his  patients.  He  lived  in  the  house  which 
his  father  built  until  in  middle  age,  when  he  built  and  moved 
into  the  house  in  the  southern  part  of  our  village  where  his 
son  Cornelius  afterward  lived. 

The  children  of  Dr.  Jacob  Wurtz  and  his  wife,  Catharine 

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466  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

DuBois,  were  George,  born  in  1798;  Gertrude,  born  in  1803; 
Mathusalem,  born  in  1806;  Gitty  Jane,  born  in  1809;  David, 
born  in  1812;  Maurice,  born  in  1815.  By  his  second  wife, 
Mary  Hornbeck,  Dr.  Jacob  Wurts  had  one  son,  Cornelius. 

Maurities  (in  English  Maurice),  the  younger  son  of  Dr. 
George  Wirtz,  engaged  in  the  practice  of  medicine,  living  for  a 
while  in  Esopus  and  likewise  for  a  time  at  Springtown,  on  the 
farm  where  his  son-in-law,  Gilbert  Elting,  afterwards  lived. 
His  wife  was  Maria  Jansen.  He  died  in  middle  age,  leaving 
two  sons,  John  H.  and  Jansen,  and  two  daughters,  one  of  whom 
married  Gilbert  Elting'and  the  other  Nathaniel  Elting. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  467 

CHAPTER  XXXVIII 

Old  Dutch  Families  at  New  Paltz  and  Vicinity 

The  Dutch  famiUes  residing  at  New  Paltz  and  vicinity  pre- 
vious to  the  Revokition  for  a  greater  or  less  length  of  time 
include  the  Eltings,  the  Lows,  the  Roses,  the  Clearwaters,  the 
Van  Wagenens,  the  Ostranders  of  Plattekill  and  the  Eans. 

The  Dutch  element  was  always  quite  small  at  New  Paltz. 

None  of  the  Dutch  families  who  located  in  New  Paltz  be- 
came permanent  settlers  here  except  the  Eltings,  the  Van  Wage- 
nens and  the  Eans,  though  the  Lows  remained  through  several 
generations. 

There  is  this  difficulty  in  tracing  the  ancestry  of  Dutch  fami- 
lies :  that  is  while  the  Huguenots  all  had  surnames  when  they 
came  to  Ulster  county  nearly  all  the  Dutch  are  first  recorded 
on  the  church  book  by  their  Christian  names  alone,  although 
some  of  them  had  surnames  used  in  legal  documents.  The 
Jansens  are  descended  from  Jan  Mattys,  the  Lows  from  Peter 
Cornelis,  the  Clearwaters  from  Tunis  Jacobse,  the  Roses  from 
Albert  Hymans,  the  Van  Wagenens  from  Aaert  Jacobson,  who 
was  the  son  of  Jacob  Geritson.  The  Ostranders  took  the  name 
from  "east  strand,"  where  the  ancestor  of  the  family  lived. 
The  name  Ean  simply  means  "one."  Where  it  is  recorded  in 
the  church  book  by  a  French  minister  it  is  written  "un"  and 
when  bv  a  Dutch  minister  Ein  or  Een. 


468  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 


CHAPTER  XXXIX 

The  Low  Family  at  New  Paltz 

The  ancestor  of  the  Low  family  in  Ulster  county  is  Peter 
Cornelius,  who  sailed  from  Holstein  in  1659.  He  married 
Elizabeth  Blanshan,  daughter  of  Matthew  Blanshan  and  sister 
of  the  wife  of  Louis  DuBois,  the  New  Paltz  Patentee,  at  Kings- 
ton in  1668.  His  name  was  entered  on  the  church  record 
simply  as  Peter  Cornells,  the  surname  of  Low  not  yet  having 
been  adopted.  His  sons  were  INIatthew,  Peter,  Cornelius, 
Jacob,  born  in  1683 ;  Johannis  and  Abraham,  born  in  1688. 
Peter  and  Cornelius  received  land  grants  in  Shawangunk  and 
Wawarsing. 

Matthew  married  Jannetje  Van  Harring.  His  two  sons, 
Peter,  born  in  1700,  and  Johannes,  born  in  1706,  located  in  New 
Paltz.  Peter  married  Catharine,  daughter  of  Solomon  DuBois 
of  Paughwaughtanonk,  in  New  Paltz,  in  1722,  and  his  name 
on  the  marriage  register  is  set  down  as  residing  at  New  Paltz. 
He  quite  certainly  lived  on  the  southern  part  of  the  land  of  his 
father-in-law  at  Paughwaughtanonk  and  his  descendants  after- 
wards lived  there  for  many  years. 

The  name  of  Peter  Low  appears  as  a  freeholder  in  New 
Paltz  in  1728  and  again  on  the  tax  list  of  1765  as  still  living 
in  the  Paughwaugtanonk  neighborhood.  His  sons  were  Jona- 
than, born  in  1724;  Solomon,  born  in  1725  (located  at  Spring- 
town),  and  Isaac,  born  in  1730,  who  lived  where  his  father  had 
lived.  When  the  Conferentia  church  was  organized,  in  1767, 
Peter  Low  and  his  two  sons,  Solomon  and  Isaac,  united  with  it. 
The  Low  family  long  had  a  blacksmith  shop  at  Paughwaugh- 


HISTOliY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  469 

tanonk  and  the  name  is  found  on  one  or  more  tombstones  in 
the  burying-ground  near  where  the  blacksmith  shop  stood  on 
the  farm  now  occupied  by  LeFevre  DuBois  on  the  County 
House  Plains. 

Johannes,  the  brother  of  Peter,  sometimes  wrote  his  name 
Johannes  M.  and  sometimes  Johannes,  Jr.  He  located  in  New 
Paltz  village,  married,  about  1735,  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Hugo 
Freer,  Senior,  and  after  his  father-in-law's  death  occupied  his 
house,  the  northernmost  of  the  old  stone  houses,  still  standing 
on  Huguenot  street  in  this  village,  and  here  his  descendants 
lived  for  many  years. 

The  children  of  Johannes  M.  Low  and  Rebecca  Freer  were 
Johannes,  born  in  1736;  Maria,  born  in  1738  (married  RoeHf 
J.  Elting)  ;  Jacob,  born  in  1743;  Lena,  born  in  1745;  Simeon, 
born  in  1747.  Johannes  M.  Low  still  occupied  the  homestead 
in  1765.  After  his  death  it  passed  into  the  possession  of  his 
son  Simeon,  who  married  Christina  McMuUen.  The  children 
were  Ezekiel,  born  in  1777,  David,  Janitje,  Maria,  Jacob  and 
Samuel.  All  of  the  Low  family  at  New  Paltz  finally  died  out 
or  moved  away. 


470  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 


CHAPTER  XL 

The  Klaarwater  (Clearwater)   Family 

The  Klaarwaters  were  one  of  the  most  ancient  famiUes  in 
Holland.  For  centuries  they  owned  and  to  this  day  own  es- 
tates at  Baarn,  near  Rotterdam.  Its  members  were  among  the 
founders  of  the  Dutch  Republic,  and  achieved  distinction  in 
the  wars  of  Holland. 

Theunis  Jacobsen  Klaarwater,  the  founder  of  the  Clearwater 
family  in  America,  was  born  at  Baarn  in  1624.  He  was  a  sol- 
dier of  Holland  and  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Leyden. 
He  came  from  Holland  to  Niew  Amsterdam,  went  to  Esopus 
(Kingston)  and  subsequently  to  Bontecoe. 

In  the  year  1709  Queen  Anne  granted  to  him,  to  his  son, 
Jacob  Klaarwater,  his  brother-in-law,  Hendrick  Vernooy,  his 
son's  father-in-law,  Abraham  Doiau  (Deyo),  Rip  Van  Dam, 
Adolph  Phillipse,  Dr.  Gerardus  Beekman  and  Colonel  Wil- 
liam Peartree  a  patent  of  4,000  acres  of  land  in  this 
county. 

The  patent  is  recorded  in  the  office  of  the  Secretary  of  State, 
in  Book  7  of  patents,  at  page  54,  and  embraces  that  tract  in 
the  present  town  of  Shawangunk  bounded  by  the  Wallkill  on 
the  east,  the  Dwaarskill  on  the  south  and  the  Shawangunkkill 
on  the  west. 

Theunis  Jacobsen  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Reformed 
Protestant  Dutch  church  at  Kingston,  commonly  known  as  the 
First  Dutch.  He  was  chosen  by  the  citizens  of  Kingston 
commissioner  to  present  to  the   British  Crown  their  protest 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  471 

against  the  arrogant  and  illegal  conduct  of  the  com- 
mandant of  the  English  garrison  stationed  at  Kingston  under 
the  English  rule,  a  duty  discharged  with  ability  and 
dignity. 

After  his  removal  to  Bontecoe  he  joined  the  Huguenot  church 
at  New  Paltz.  His  son  Jacob,  who  was  born  in  Holland,  mar- 
ried Marie,  daughter  of  Abraham  Doiau  (Deyo),  one  of  the 
patentees.  He  was  the  first  Dutchman  to  marry  a  daughter 
of  one  of  the  New  Paltz  Patentees. 

Theunis  Jacobsen  and  Jacob  were  among  the  freeholders  of 
the  New  Paltz  Patent  whose  names  appear  upon  the  oldest  tax 
list  of  the  Patent  now  extant,  that  of  1712,  which  is  preserved 
among  the  archives  of  the  Memorial  House. 

Theunis  Jacobson  died  in  171 5  and  was  buried  in  the  orchard 
of  his  farm  at  Bontecoe,  which  is  still  owned  by  one  ofi  his 
descendants. 

A  tablet,  designed  by  Charles  R.  Lamb,  the  architect  of  the 
Dewey  Arch,  was  erected  on  the  anniversary  of  the  Battle  of 
Lexington,  1899,  in  the  Dutch  church  at  Kingston  to  his 
memory,  and  that  of  some  of  his  lineal  descendants  by 
Judge  Clearwater  of  Kingston,  his  descendant  six  degrees 
removed. 

The  tablet  is  of  white  marble,  framed  by  Corinthian  pilasters, 
with  capitals  and  frieze  supported  by  heavy  corbels.  Upon 
the  frieze  is  a  scroll,  on  which  is  carved  a  pair  of  crossed 
swords  on  the  model  of  those  used  by  the  officers  of  the  con- 
tinental army,  intertwined  with  oak  leaves,  the  symbol  of 
strength  and  heroism,  surmounted  by  the  words  "In  Me- 
moriam."  At  the  base  of  the  tablet  is  the  inscription,  "Fide 
Et  Fortitudine,"  intertwined  with  ivy  leaves,  the  symbol  of 
remembrance  and  longevity.  Each  capital  is  crowned  with  a 
scallop  shell,  the  emblem  of  the  Pilgrim.     The  inscription  is 


472  HISTORY  OF  XEIV  PALTZ 

of    bronze    letters    executed    in    high    reUef,    and    is    as    fol- 
lows : 

1624       THEUXIS  JACOBSEN  KLAARWATER         1715 
Whose  ancestors  were  among  the  fotinders  of  the 

DUTCH  REPUBLIC. 

A  soldier  of  Holland. 

An  early  settler  of  Ulster  County. 

1663  JACOB  KLAARWATER.  1747 

A  native  of  Holland  who  fought  in  the  wars  of  the 

American  frontier. 

1699  ABRAHAM  KLAAR\\'ATER  1782 

Sergeant  in  the  provincial  army  during  the 

Colonial  Wars. 

Signer  of  the  Articles  of  x\ssociation  1775. 

Dragoon  in  the  Marbletown  Troop  of  Horse  during  the 

war  of  the  Revolution. 

1757  THOMAS  KLAARWATER  1830 

Signer  of  the  Articles  of  Association  1775. 

Trooper  in  the  IMarbletown  Horse. 

Soldier  in  the  Continental  Army. 

1787  THOAL\S  TEUXIS  CLEARWATER  i860 

Soldier  of  the  \\'ar  of  1812. 

The  bronze  is  made  of  old  cannon  captured  in  battle  during 
the  American  wars.     The  marble  is  from  American  quarries. 

The  tablet  is  placed  in  the  west  wall  of  the  church  and  is  a 
fine  addition  to  the  beautiful  interior  of  that  stately  edifice. 

Among  the  descendants  of  Theunis  Jaco1)sen  who  will  be 
recalled  by  the  readers  of  this  volume  are  the  Honorable  Hiram 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  F ALT Z  473 

Clearwater,  who  for  many  years  was  the  president  of  the  Board 
of  Education  and  the  president  of  the  Board  of  Water  Com- 
missioners of  the  city  of  Cincinnati ;  the  Reverend  Charles 
Knapp  Clearwater,  now  pastor  of  the  old  Reformed  Protestant 
Dutch  church  of  Newton,  L.  I. ;  Charles  Hiram  Clearwater, 
one  of  the  pioneer  manufacturers  of  Rosendale  cement  in  this 
county;  Colonel  Alfred  Clearwater,  one  of  the  leading  citi- 
zens of  Northern  Pennsylvania,  and  "the  Honorable  Alphonso 
Trumpbour  Clearwater,  LL.  D.,  who  three  times  has  been  Dis- 
trict Attorney  and  twice  County  Judge  of  Ulster  county,  and 
afterwards  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  State  of  New 
York.  During  the  two  hundred  and  forty  years  the  family  has 
been  settled  here  its  members  have  intermarried  with  many  of 
the  old  Dutch  and  Huguenot  county  families,  and  those  inter- 
ested in  tracing  their  descent  from  its  founder  should  consult 
among  other  family  genealogies,  those  of  Beekman,  Burger, 
Davis.  DePew,  DeWitt,  Deyo,  DuBois,  Elmendorf,  Freer, 
Helm,  Houghtaling,  Hofifman,  Kortright,  Schoonmaker,  Ter- 
williger,  Trumpbour,  \zx\  Leuven.  \z\\  Wagenen,  \'ernooy, 
Wood. 


474  HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z 


CHAPTER  XLI 

The  Ean  Family  at  New  Paltz 

The  Ean  family  was  the  first  of  Dutch  extraction  to  settle 
at  New  Paltz  and  remain  here  permanently.  The  Ean  family 
is  unique  in  another  respect :  from  generation  to  generation 
there  have  been  few  boys  in  the  family.  Consequently  the 
Ean  name  has  increased  but  slowly.  The  first  at  New  Paltz 
was  Elias  Eign  (spelled  by  the  French  Un  or  Yn),  who  mar- 
ried Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Anthoine  Crespel,  the  Patentee. 
Another  daughter  of  Anthoine  Crespel,  the  Patentee,  named 
Maria  (or  Maria  jNIaddaleen),  also  settled  at  New  Paltz  and 
also  married  a  Dutchman,  Mattys  C.  Sleght.  We  have  very 
little  knowledge  of  Sleght  or  his  children,  although  as  late  as 
1724  we  find  the  name  of  Mattys  Sleght,  Jun.,  signed  to  the 
agreement  of  the  24  proprietors  of  the  Patent  at  that  time, 
authorizing  the  Duzine  to  give  title  to  land.  The  Sleght 
family  certainly  did  not  long  remain  at  New  Paltz.  Ean  and 
his  descendants  always  remained  here.  In  the  tax  list  of  171 2 
he  is  assessed  £35.  In  1718  his  name  appears  as  the  only  per- 
son, not  of  the  Patentees'  families,  who  assisted  in  building  the 
first  stone  church.  In  the  agreement  of  the  24  proprietors  in 
1724,  authorizing  the  Duzine  to  give  title  to  land,  appear  the 
names  of  Jan  Een,  Elizabeth  Een,  Sarah  Een  and  Maria  Mad- 
daleen  Een.  These  were  undoubtedly  the  widow  and  children 
of  Elias.  We  have  no  means  of  determining  whether  he  lived 
always  in  the  village  or  moved  in  his  later  years  to  the  home- 
stead at  Bontecoe,  where  his  descendants  have  lived  ever  since. 
In  the  tax  list  of  1728  the  property  is  assessed  to  "Elias  Ean's 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 


475 


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RUIXS    OF    THE    EAX    llOiSE    AT    BONTECUE 


476  HISTORY  OF  X EW  PALTZ 

widow"  at  £20.  Her  father,  Anthony  Crespel,  always  re- 
mained at  Hurley,  and  in  1693  he  sold  a  plot  of  land  in  this 
village,  probably  the  lot  assigned  to  him  for  a  home  to  Hugo 
Freer,  Sen.,  as  is  shown  by  the  original  deed,  in  the  possession 
of  the  writer. 

Jan  Ean,  son  of  Elias,  married,  in  1735,  Geesje  Roosa.  In 
the  marriage  record,  recorded  in  the  church  book  at  Kingston, 
the  bride  is  set  down  as  being  from  Marbletown  and  the  groom 
as  born  at  Hurley  and  residing  "at  Mond- Albany,  in  the  juris- 
diction of  Paltz."  The  clerk  who  made  the  record  undoubtedly 
misunderstood  the  name  of  the  locality  and  should  have  written 
Bontecoe,  where,  on  the  farm  about  3^  miles  north  of  the 
village,  Jan  Ean  lived  and  died  and  his  grave  is  pointed  out 
till  the  present  day,  and  on  this  farm  his  descendants  still  live. 

The  children  of  Jan  Ean  were  Elizabeth,  Margaret,  Elias, 
Abraham  (born  in  1741)  and  Isaac.  We  have  no  account  of 
these  sons  except  Abraham.  The  others  probably  died  in  in- 
fancy or  boyhood.  In  the  old  stone  house,  which  has  lately 
tumbled  into  ruins,  on  a  stone  beside  the  front  door  appear  the 
initials  A.  E.  and  J.  E.,  showing  that  Jan  Ean  and  his  son 
Abraham  together  built  the  house.  About  two  miles  down  the 
Wallkill  a  lot  of  about  ten  acres  of  fertile  lowland  in  one  of  the 
great  bends  of  the  stream  belonged  to  the  Eans  as  early  as 
1730,  as  shown  by  a  paper  in  possession  of  the  writer.  It  is 
called  the  Half  i\Ioon  in  this  paper  and  retains  that  name  until 
the  present  day.  It  was  owmed  by  the  Eans  until  about  1880. 
Jan  Ean  died  before  1755  and  in  that  year  Geesje  Ean,  widow 
of  Jan,  is  set  dowai  in  the  list  of  slave-owners  in  the  town.  In 
a  map  of  the  Patent,  made  in  1760  by  Louis  Bevier,  the  house 
of  Geesje  Ean  is  the  only  one  set  down.  She  was  a  woman  of 
note  in  the  community  and  is  still  remembered  by  the  Le- 
Fevres,  who  owned  the  adjoining  farm,  for  her  help  to  the  sick. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  477 

Abraham  Ean  came  next  in  possession  of  the  farm.  In  1765 
Abraham  was  married,  at  Kingston,  to  Catharine  Van  Wage- 
nen,  who  was  born  at  Hurley  and  resided  at  Wagondahl  (Creek 
Locks)  at  the  time  of  the  marriage,  as  stated  in  the  record  on 
the  church  book.  In  the  division  in  the  church  between  the 
Coetus  and  Conferentia  parties  Abraham  seems  to  have  sided 
with  the  latter  party  and  his  mother  with  the  Coetus,  as  Abra- 
ham's name  appears  as  one  of  the  subscribers  to  the  Confer- 
entia church  then  built,  and  in  1772  his  mother's  name  appears 
as  a  contributor  to  the  building  of  the -second  church  in  our 
village. 

In  the  Revolutionary  War  Abraham  Ean  served  on  the  fron- 
tier as  a  member  of  Capt.  Abraham  Deyo's  company,  Third 
Ulster  County  Regiment. 

The  children  of  Abraham  Ean  and  Catharine  Van  Wagenen, 
his  wife,  were  Elias  (born  in  1768),  Annetje,  Rachel,  Catha- 
rine and  Peter  (born  in  1781)-.  The  three  daughters  all  mar- 
ried and  located  directly  across  the  \\'allkill  in  the  Springtown 
neighborhood.  Rachel  n:arried  David  Deyo  (grandfather  of 
Rev.  Paul  T.).  Catharine  married  Jonathan  Deyo  (grand- 
father of  James  E.).  Annetje  married  Benjamin  Hasbrouck. 
Peter,  who  was  the  younger  son,  occupied  the  farm  during  his 
long  hfe.  He  married  Maria  Freer.  From  Peter  the  farm 
descended  to  Abraham  Ean,  who  was  an  only  son,  and  occu- 
pied the  farm  during  his  lifetime. 

Going  back  now  to  Elias,  son  of  Abraham,  we  find  that  he 
married  Elizabeth  Hasbrouck  of  Springtown.  He  built  the 
stone  house  at  Middletown.  which  passed  to  his  son,  Elias,  Jun., 
and  in  the  next  generation  to  James  Ean.  This  house,  still 
standing  with  its  gable  end  to  the  road,  bears,  deeply  cut  in  a 
stone  in  the  southwest  corner  of  the  building,  the  date  of  erec- 
tion, 1789,  and  the  initials  of  the  builders,  E.  E.  (Elias  Ean) 


478  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

and  R.  H.  B.  (Roelif  Hasbrouck).  A  peculiarity  of  this  old 
house  was  that  the  stone  oven,  instead  of  being  incorporated  in 
the  building  as  iYi  other  stone  houses  was  built  on  a  rock  across 
the  street,  where  it  stood  until  modern  times.  Elias  Ean  was 
for  a  number  of  years  an  officer  in  the  church  and  was  a  much 
respected  man.  His  sons  were  Elias,  who  occupied  the  farm 
after  his  father's  death,  and  Jacobus,  who  spent  his  days  in  the 
Middletown   neighborhood.     A    daughter,    Elizabeth,   born   in 

1807,  married Snyder.     She  lived  to  the  extraordinary 

age  of  95  years. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z  479 

CHAPTER  XLII 

The  Van  Wagenen  Family  at  New  Paltz 

The  first  Van  Wagenen  at  New  Paltz  was  Petrus  Van  Wage- 
nen, whose  father  Archa  resided  at  Creek  Locks  (called  by  the 
old  people  Wagondahl)  in  a  house  near  the  residence  of  the 
late  Washington  LeFevre. 

Petrus  married,  at  Kingston,  June  15,  1760,  Sarah  Low, 
daughter  of  Simeon  Low  of  New  Paltz  village.  In  the  mar- 
riage record  on  the  church  book  Petrus  is  set  down  as  residing 
at  Wagondale  and  his  wife  as  residing  at  New  Paltz.  They 
probably  took  up  their  residence  at  New  Paltz  immediately  after 
the  marriage.  Petrus'  house,  one  mile  northeast  of  the  village, 
is  still  standing,  but  has  not  been  occupied  for  many  years. 
Part  of  the  eastern  wall  has  tumbled  down.  It  is  the  most 
picturesque  ruin  anywhere  in  the  vicinity  of  New  Paltz,  and 
the  artist's  brush  of  Mr.  A.  Scott  Cox  has  placed  it  on  can- 
vass in  a  very  attractive  manner.  It  stands  in  a  field  about 
half  a  mile  northwest  of  Put  Corners. 

In  the  tax  list  of  1765  Petrus  is  assessed  £8  los.  In  1767 
he,  with  other  New  Paltz  people  of  Dutch  descent  transferred 
his  membership  from  the  church  at  Kingston  to  the  newly- 
organized  Conferentia  church  at  New  Paltz,  which  had  just 
erected  a  house  of  worship  about  two  miles  from  the  village  on 
the  west  side  of  the  Wallkill.  Petrus  lived  to  the  extraordi- 
nary age  of  92  years.  He  was  by  trade  a  stone  mason.  His 
name  appears  as  one  of  the  enlisted  men  in  the  Third  Ulster 
County  Regiment  in  the  Revolutionary  war. 

Petrus  and  his  wife  had  a  large  family  of  children.  The  fol- 
lowing are  recorded  on  the  church  book  at  Kingston  as  being 


48o  HISTORY  OF  X E\V  PALTZ 

< 

baptized  from  1761  to  1766:    Jonathan,  Daniel,  Ezekiel,  Levi. 

The  following  are  recorded  on  the  church  book  at  New  Paltz 
as  being  baptized  from  1766  to  1778:  Catharine,  Lucas,  Maria, 
Aert  (in  English  Archa)  and  Sarah. 

In  the  Revolutionary  war  Daniel  and  Levi  served  in  the 
stockade  at  Wawarsing  and  Daniel  was  in  the  stockade  when 
it  was  attacked  by  Tories  and  Indians.  Daniel  left  three  sons, 
all  of  whom  went  west.  Archa  wrote  his  name  Archa  P. 
He  married,  in  1800,  ]\Iaria  Freer.  They  lived  for  a  time  in 
the  old  homestead  and  for  a  time  on  what  is  now  the  Abner 
DuBois  farm  at  ]\Iiddletown.  Archa  P.  served  in  the  war  of 
1 81 2  in  the  92d  Regiment,  Heavy  Artillery.  He  was  on  Lake 
Ontario  and  in  the  fight  at  Lake  Mills  in  Canada.  He  re- 
ceived 160  acres  of  land  for  his  services  in  war,  but  it  w-as 
afterwards  sold  for  taxes.  Archa  P.  left  two  sons,  Jonas, 
who  resided  at  Plutarch,  and  Alexander ;  also  one  daughter, 
Magdalen,  who  married  Jacob  Bedford. 

Lucas  Van  Wagenen,  son  of  Petrus,  married  Cornelia  Mar- 
kle.  They  lived  in  the  house _still  standing  just  south  of  the 
present  church-yard  ;  at  least  Mrs.  Van  Wagenen  lived  there 
after  her  husband's  death,  which  occurred  in  181 1,  at  the  age  of 
41.  The  children  of  Lucas  and  Cornelia  Van  Wagenen  were 
Benjamin,  born  in  1796;  Jonathan,  born  in  1798;  Janetje,  born 
in  1800;  Maria,  born  in  1803.  We  have  no  account  of  any  of 
these  children  except  Benjamin  and  one  daughter,  who  mar- 
ried James  ^Mitchell  of  Shawangunk.  Benjamin  married  Cath- 
arine, daughter  of  Judge  Jonathan  DuBois  of  Springtown. 
They  lived  in  the  building  now  the  Huguenot  bank.  Benjamin 
Van  Wagenen  was  a  very  prominent  citizen  of  our  village  in 
his  day.  There  was  no  lawyer  in  New  Paltz  until  long  after 
that  time  and  the  legal  business  required  in  the  place  was  done 
by  Benj.  Van.  Wagenen. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  481 


CHAPTER  XLIII 

The  Eltinge  Family  in  New  Paltz 

The  following-  account  of  the  Ehinge  family  so  far  as  it 
relates  to  Jan,  the  original  Eltinge  in  Ulster  county,  was  de- 
rived mainly  from  the  researches  of  Jonathan  W.  Hasbrouck 
and  is  given  in  his  words  : 

Jan  Elten,  the  ancestor  of  all  the  Eltinges  in  Ulster  county, 
was  born  in  Holland,  at  Beyle,  a  dependency  of  Switchsaelen, 
in  the  province  of  Drenthe,  on  the  29th  day  of  July  (old  style) 
1632.  He  was  the  son  of  Roelif  and  Aeltje  Elten  and  known 
to  be  of  a  numerous  and  respectable  family.  The  first  mention 
I  find  on  record  concerning  him  I  find  in  one  of  the  volumes 
of  the  Transactions  of  the  Dvitch,  at  Albany,  in  a  commission, 
issued  Sept.  6,  1665,  by  authority  of  E.  Andross,  Governor, 
constituting  and  appointing  Capt.  Thomas  Chambers  to  be  a 
justice  of  the  peace  for  Kingston,  Hurley  and  Marbletown  and 
dependencies  in  Esopus  and  also  for  him  and  George  Hall, 
the  sheriff,  Cornelius  Slecht,  W.  Nottingham,  John  Elten  (or 
Jan  Eltinge)  and  John  Briggs,  or  any  four  or  more  of  them  to 
hold  a  court  of  sessions  twice  a  year  at  Kingston,  to  hear  and 
determine  all  appeals  and  causes,  as  a  court  of  sessions,  accord- 
ing to  law.  He  must  therefore  have  emigrated  from  Holland 
a  considerable  time  prior  to  that  date.  In  1680  a  certificate, 
signed  by  the  church  ofiicers  at  Beyle  was  executed  for  his 
benefit,  in  which  he  is  commended  by  them  to  the  favorable 
regard  of  all  to  whose  knowledge  its  contents  should  be  made 
known.  This  must  have  been  sent  to  him  years  after  his 
residence  here. 


482  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Being-  associated,  as  above,  with  Cornelius  Slecht,  one  of 
the  first  settlers  of  Esopus,  he  doubtless  became  intimate  with 
him  and  his  fafnily,  thus  forming  an  acquaintance  with  Cor- 
nelius' daughter  Jacomyntje,  whom  he  married  about  the  year 
1677.  The  mother  of  Jacomyntje  was  Tryntje  Tynebrouck. 
Jacomyntje  had  had  a  previous  husband,  by  whom  she  had 
four  children,  one  of  whom  named  Tryntje  married  Solomon 
DuBois  of  New  Paltz.     Jan  Elten  took  out  a  patent  for  land  in 

Hurley  in  .     Jan  Eltinge  and  his  wife  Jacomyntje  had 

five  children,  as  follows :  Roelif,  baptized  in  1678,  who  settled 
in  New  Paltz  and  married  Sarah  DuBois ;  Cornelius,  baptized 
in  1 68 1,  who  settled  in  Marbletown  and  married  Rebecca  Van 
Metten ;  William,  who  settled  in  Kingston  and  married  Jane 
LeSaeur;  Greitje,  married  Thos.  Wall  of  Somerset  county, 
N.  J.,  and  Aaltje.  who  married  Garret  Aertson  of  Kingston, 
son  of  Aert  Jacobson,  son  of  Jacob  Gerritsen.  Notice  peculiar 
changes  of  names  from  one  generation  to  another.  Gerrit  had 
a  brother  Jacob.  The  children  of  both  are  called  Van  Wag- 
gennegar  or  \'an  Wegener. 

Jan  Eltinge  signed  the  treaty  made  by  the  Paltz  Huguenots 
and  the  Indians,  in  the  spring  of  1677,  as  one  of  the  witnesses. 
On  the  8th  of  June,  1686,  Jan  Eltinge  and  Gerrit  Aertson,  his 
son-in-law,  and  Arien  Post  bought  a  lot  of  land  at  Rhinebeck ; 
"Right  over  against  the  Rondout  Creek"  by  a  small  creek 
called  Quaawanoss.  This  is  now  the  home  of  Hon.  Levi  P. 
Morton.  The  price  paid  for  the  land  was  6  suits  of  stremuater 
(a  kind  of  coarse  cloth),  6  duffels,  4  blankets,  5  kettles,  4  guns, 
5  hoes,  5  axes,  10  cases  powder,  10  bars  of  lead,  8  sheets,  8 
pairs  stockings,  40  fathoms  wampum,  2  drawing  knives,  two 
adzes,  ten  knives,  half  an  anker  of  rum  (anker  is  ten  gallons) 
and  one  frying  pan. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  483 

RoELiF  THE  First  Eltinge  at  New  Paltz 

Roelif,  the  eldest  son  of  Jan  Eltinge,  was  baptized  October 
27,  1678,  and  married,  in  1703,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Abm.  Du- 
Bois,  the  Patentee,  who  was  the  son  of  Louis  DuBois.  the 
Patentee.  He  settled  at  New  Paltz  about  1720.  We  have 
reason  to  believe  that  Roelif  lived  for  several  years  on  Hugue- 
not street  in  this  village,  in  a  house  which  stood  a  short  dis- 
tance south  of  the  old  stone  house  of  Isaiah  Hasbrouck  and 
was  torn  down  in  1800.  In  his  later  days  he  located  a  short 
distance  outside  the  south  bounds  of  the  Paltz  patent,  where 
Edmund  Eltinge  resided,  on  a  portion  of  a  patent  of  land, 
lying  on  both  sides  of  the  Wallkill,  granted  to  the  Patentee, 
Louis  DuBois,  and  by  him  conveyed  to  his  sons,  Solomon  and 
Louis,  Jr.,  both  of  whom  settled  on  a  part  of  this  tract  lying 
on  the  west  side  of  the  Wallkill.  The  deed  from  Solomon 
and  Louis  DuBois  to  Roelif  Eltinge  was  in  the  possession  of 
Edmund  Eltinge  and  is  dated  February  4,  1726-7.  (The  last 
two  figures  are  written  in  a  fractional  form,  customary  in  those 
days,  to  indicate  the  difference  of  old  and  new  style.)  Geo. 
Van  Wagoner  is  one  of  the  witnesses  of  this  deed.  On  this 
tract,  a  short  distance  south  of  Edmund  Eltinge's  residence, 
Roelif  built  a  stone  house  and  here  ended  his  days.  This 
house  was  burned  about  1820.  Some  of  the  stones  of  the  old 
house  are  in  the^  kitchen  walls  of  the  present  residence.  One 
of  these  bears  the  inscription  "Anno  1742."  This  old  stone 
house  was  erected  at  different  periods  and  a  part  of  it  may  have 
been  erected  by  Roelif  Eltinge  at  a  still  earlier  date.  Roelif 
had  four  sons,  Noah,  Josias,  Abraham  and  Johannes,  and  three 
daughters,  Jacomyntje,  Margaretta  and  Cattrina.  We  have 
little  further  knowledge  of  any  of  these  children  except  Noah, 
Josias  and  Margaretta. 

Tradition   says   that   when   Roelif   came    from    Kingston   to 


484  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

New  Paltz  he  had  a  belt  of  gold  around  his  waist.  He  was  one 
of  the  justices  of  the  county  before  moving  to  New  Paltz.  He 
became  a  man  of  much  influence  in  the  little  settlement,  and 
in  1728  was  still  one  of  the  justices  of  the  county.  Roelif  was 
an  executor  of  the  will  of  his  father-in-law,  Abm.  DuBois,  who 
died  in  1731  and  was  the  last  survivor  of  the  twelve  patentees, 
as  stated  on  his  tombstone,  still  standing  in  the  old  burying- 
ground  in  this  village.  We  can  not  state  the  exact  date  of 
the  death  of  Roelif  Eltinge  or  the  place  of  his  burial.  His  will, 
a  copy  of  which  is  in  the  possession  of  Jacob  Eltinge,  is  dated 
in  1745  and  probated  in  1747.  It  is  in  English.  In  this  will, 
after  provision  is  made  for  the  support  of  the  widow,  the  son, 
Noah,  is  given  the  homestead  on  wdiich  he  afterwards  resided 
and  certain  lands  in  the  New  Paltz  Patent.  The  grandson, 
Roelif  Elting,  son  of  the  testator's  son  Abraham,  late  of  the 
Potomac,  is  given  certain  sums  of  money  and  land  which  is 
to  be  sold.  His  uncles,  Josiah  and  Noah,  are  made  his  guar- 
dians until  he  arrives  at  the  age  of  21  years.  The  testator's 
eldest  son,  John  of  Mormel  (Marbletown),  is  given  certain 
property  and  tan  pits  in  the  corporation  of  Kingston ;  to  John 
and  his  sons,  Peter  and  Roelif,  are  given  a  share  in  certain 
lands  in  the  Paltz  Patent.  The  will  gives  to  the  testator's  son 
Josiah  the  property  which  he  had  purchased  of  his  brother-in- 
law,  Abraham  DuBois,  and  a  share  in  certain  undivided  lots 
in  the  Patent.  The  daughter,  Jacomyntje,  wife  of  Wm.  Code- 
bee,  and  the  daughter  Margaret,  wife  of  Abraham  Bevier,  are 
given  certain  sums  of  money  to  be  paid  by  their  brothers.  The 
sons,  John,  Josiah  and  Noah,  are  appointed  executors. 

Roelif  Eltinge's  Children 

Roelif's  sons,  Noah  and  Josias,  settled  at  New  Paltz.     Noah, 
who  was  born  in  1721,  lived  in  the  homestead  of  his  father  on 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  485 

the  Plains,  where  his  descendants  liave  Uved  ever  since.  He 
married  his  cousin,  Jacomyntje  Elting,  October  16,  1742.  They 
had  but  one  child,  Sarah,  who  married  Dirck  Wynkoop. 
Though  his  descendants  are  not  numerous,  we  have  more  ex- 
tended information  concerning  Noah  than  any  man  of  that 
day.  In  1748  he  obtained,  in  conjunction  with  Nathaniel  Le- 
Fevre,  who  lived  in  the  old  stone  house  some  distance  further 
north,  torn  down  about  1885,  a  grant  for  3,000  acres  of  land. 
This  land  has  remained  in  the  possession  of  the  descendants 
of  each,  to  a  considerable  extent,  to  the  present  day.  This 
grant  was  comprised  in  three  tracts,  lying  on  both  sides  of  the 
Wallkill.  The  whole,  or  at  least  a  part  of  it,  had  been  pre- 
viously granted  to  Capt.  John  Evans,  but  had  been  vacated 
for  some  cause  and  the  title  reassumed  by  the  government. 
The  patent  for  the  3,000  acres,  written  on  parchment,  with  the 
colonial  seal,  several  inches  in  diameter,  attached,  was  in  the 
possession  of  Edmund  Eltinge.  This  grant  of  the  3,000  acres 
brought  a  great  deal  of  trouble.  It  was  claimed  that  the  orig- 
inal Paltz  patent  covered  a  part  of  the  tract.  Louis  Bevier 
of  Marbletown,  Col.  Abm.  Hasbrouck  of  Kingston  and  Jacob 
Hasbrouck,  Jr.,  in  behalf  of  the  descendants  of  the  patentees, 
began  proceedings,  alleging,  furthermore,  that  Noah  had  no 
good  title  to  the  homestead,  where  he  resided  and  which  had 
come  to  him  from  his  father.  Finally  the  matter  was  settled 
without  being  tried  in  court.  Noah  Eltinge  and  Nathaniel  Le- 
Fevre  retained  their  3,000  acres,  and  for  a  very  moderate  sum 
(perhaps  enough  to  pay  the  expenses  of  litigation)  a  release 
was  signed,  in  1754.  by  Jacob  Hasbrouck.  Jr.,  Louis  Bevier 
and  Col.  Abm.  Hasbrouck,  confirming  to  Noah  Eltinge  his 
title  to  one  lot  of  179  acres  and  another  of  22  acres,  compris- 
ing, undoubtedly,  the  homestead.  A  full  and  lengthy  account 
of  these  matters,  drawn  up  by  Noah,  was  in  the  possession  of 
Edmund  Eltinge. 


486  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

The  old  barn,  still  standing-  on  this  place,  is  thought  to  have 
been  built  by  Roelif  Eltinge.  It  was  rebuilt  in  1811.  The  tim- 
bers are  of  pitch  pine,  which  formerly  grew  to  some  extent 
along  the  Plattekill.  Noah  was  the  first  elder  in  the  Confer- 
entia  church  at  New  Paltz.  which  was  organized  in  1767.  In 
1773  he  owned  one-seventeenth  of  all  the  undivided  land 
in  the  Paltz  patent.  The  road  from  Plattekill  to  New 
Paltz  was  laid  out  in  Noah  Eltinge's  day.  and  among  his 
documents  is  one  throwing  some  light  on  this  matter.  Noah 
Eltinge  died  in  1778.  aged  57  years,  and  is  interred  in  the 
old  graveyard  in  this  village.  By  his  side  is  the  grave  of 
his  wife,  who  died  in  1790,  aged  75  years.  We  have  said 
that  Noah  Eltinge  left  but  one  child,  a  daughter  named  Sarah, 
who  married  Dirck  Wynkoop  and  continued  to  occupy  her 
father's  homestead.  Dirck  Wynkoop  was  a  prominent  man. 
He  was  one  of  the  delegates  from  this  county  to  the  conven- 
tion in  Poughkeepsie  which  decided  to  adopt  the  Federal  con- 
stitution. Mr.  Wynkoop  voted  against  the  measure.  During 
his  lifetime  he  held  various  important  public  positions.  Dirck 
and  wife  left  but  two  children,  both  daughters,  Gertrude,  who 
married  Alexander  Golden  and  afterwards  David  Golden,  and 
Gornelia.  who  married  Peter  Eltinge.  Peter  was  the  son  of 
William,  who  was  the  grandson  of  William,  who  was  the  sec- 
ond son  of  the  original  Jan  Eltinge  of  Kingston.  Peter  con- 
tinued to  occupy  the  old  homestead  up  to  the  time  of  his  death, 
and  it  was  afterwards  occupied  by  his  son  Edmund. 

JosiAs  Elting  and  His  Descendants 

The  history  of  the  family  of  Noah  Eltinge  being  brought 
down  to  modern  times,  we  will  take  up  that  of  his  brother, 
Josias  (or  Josiah),  baptized  October  12.  1712,  and  this  should 
take  more  space,  as  his  descendants  are  more  numerous.     There 


HISTORY  OF  XEIV  PALTZ  487 

is  no  reasonable  doubt  that  Josiah  lived  in  the  old  Eltinge 
house,  still  standing,  on  Huguenot  street,  nearly  opposite  the 
late  residence  of  Mrs.  Berry.  This  house  bore  on  one  of'  its 
chimneys  till  recently  the  date  1735.  It  was  originally  a  Bevier 
house,  but  passed  into  the  possession  of  the  Eltings  about  1740. 
Josiah  married  Helena,  daughter  of  Solomon  DuBois,  July  15, 
1734.  In  a  tax  list  dated  1765  Josiah's  name  appears  as  the 
wealthiest  man  in  the  town.  To  a  list  of  owners  of  slaves, 
dated  in  1755,  Josiah's  name  is  signed  as  captain.  In  the 
building  of  the  Conferentia  church  his  name  and  that  of  Hen- 
dricus  DuBois  appear  as  the  most  liberal  subscribers.  We  do 
not  know  when  Josiah  Eltinge  died.  Doubtless  he  was  in- 
terred in  the  old  burying-ground  in  this  village,  and  it  is 
singular  that  no  stone  marks  his  grave.  Josiah  left  one  daugh- 
ter, Catharine,  who  married  Jacobus  Hardenbergh  of  Hurley, 
and  four  sons  as  follows :  Roelif  J.,  Abram,  Cornelius  and 
Solomon.  The  last  named  left  no  children.  Cornelius  mar- 
ried Blandina  Elmendorf  and  settled  in  Hurley,  where  he  left  a 
line  of  descendants.  Abram  married  Dinah  DuBois  and  located 
where  his  son  Philip,  his  grandson,  Alathusalem  and  his  great- 
grandson,  Sol.  L.  F.,  have  since  resided.  Roelif  J.  married 
Maria  Low,  daughter  of  Johannes  M.  Low.  He  occupied  his 
father's  homestead  in  this  village  and  carried  on  the  mercantile 
business. 

The  Eltinge  Homestead 

We  have  a  feeling  of  pity  for  any  one  who  does  not  love 
old  houses,  something  akin  to  the  pity  we  would  feel  for  any 
one  who  says  he  does  not  love  flowers  or  the  song  of  birds. 
In  the  whole  village  there  is  no  more  interesting  house  than 
the  one  we  are  about  to  describe.  There  are  none  about  which 
cluster  more  associations  and  traditions,  and  there  is  probably 
no  old  house  in  the  county  that  has  sheltered  beneath  its  roof 


488 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 


THE   ELTINGE    HOMESTEAD,   OKIGINALIA     TilE    BEVIER    HOUSE 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  489 

the  ancestors  of  so  numerous  a  line  of  descendants,  now  living. 
What  makes  this  old  structure  much  more  interesting  is  the 
fact  that  there  has  been  no  attempt  to  spoil  it  by  modern  im- 
provements. This  house  is  now  the  property  of  Jesse  M. 
Eltinge.  It  is  about  50  feet  in  length  and  25  feet  wide.  It 
has  evidently  been  built  at  two  different  periods — the  rear  or 
eastern  end  last.  On  this  eastern  end  the  chimney  bore  until 
a  few  years  ago  the  figures  1735.  The  western  end,  which 
fronts  on  the  street,  is  evidently  the  oldest  portion  of  the  build- 
ing, but  there  is  no  date  to  determine  its  age  exactly.  Before 
entering  we  must  notice  the  well,  which  is  about  20  feet  deep, 
the  water  of  excellent  quality  and  the  stones  covered  with  moss 
and  ferns  all  the  way  from  top  to  bottom.  Every  Eltinge  who 
visits  the  home  of  his  ancestors  must  take  a  drink  from  this  well. 
The  house  is  shaded  by  locust  trees,  such  as  the  old  folks  used 
to  plant.  On  the  north  side  of  the  building  the  roof  projects  a 
dozen  feet  and  the  earth  is  paved  with  flat  stones.  Here  we 
are  told  the  people  used  to  sit  in  the  olden  times  on  Sunday 
and  chat  until  the  bell  summoned  them  to  attend  Divine  ser- 
vice at  church.  Looking  at  the  house  we  notice  the  gutters 
sustained  in  part  on  stones  projecting  from  the  wall;  also  the 
old  shutters,  held  open  by  long,  twisted  hooks.  No  regulation 
style  of  architecture  seems  to  have  existed  in  the  early  days  of 
the  settlement.  In  this  house  the  window  above  the  door  with 
its  ten  small  panes  was  doubtless  considered  quite  an  attempt 
at  style  in  its  day.  The  main  window  by  the  side  of  the  door 
is  very  grand  with  its  30  panes  of  7x9  glass.  Entering  at  the 
front  door  we  find  a  room  which  in  the  old  times  has  been 
about  16x24  and  this  is  undoubtedly  the  room  in  which  the 
merchant's  wares  were  kept.  From  floor  to  beams  above 
is  a  distance  about  eight  feet  and  the  great  beams  are  about 
10x15.     In  the  chimney  still  hangs  the  crane. 


490  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Descending  to  the  cellar  we  find  the  most  interesting  portion 
of  the  building.  Here  is  a  sub-cellar,  which  now  exists  in 
none  of  the  other  old  houses.  This  sub-cellar  is  under  the 
other  cellar  and  is  about  four  feet  deep  and  walled  all  round, 
the  mortar  being  made  of  loam  and  the  floor  of  the  cellar 
proper  resting  on  these  walls.  Although  there  is  no  drain  the 
ground  is  dry  as  dust  owing  to  its  porous,  gravelly  nature. 
The  chimney  is  about  ten  feet  wide  in  the  cellar  and  on  the  east 
side  there  has  been  evidently  an  oven.  In  the  cellar  is  a  fire- 
place and  an  outside  door.  The  sub-cellars,  where  they  existed 
in  the  old  houses,  were,  we  understand,  for  wine  cellars,  to  be 
used  in  the  storing  of  liquors.  Ascending  now  to  the  first  floor 
we  notice  the  huge  door  frames,  of  pitch  pine  timber,  12x6 
inches  and  fastened  together  by  wooden  pins.  The  nails  used 
in  the  building  are  hand-made  and  the  work  of  the  home  car- 
penter is  to  be  seen  in  the  planing  of  the  timbers.  Ascending 
the  back  stairs  by  the  original  staircase  we  notice  that  it  has 
no  banister,  and  doubtless  many  children  and  probably  some 
grown  people  have  got  a  tumble  in  descending  it.  One  room 
on  the  stairs  has  been  finished  off,  but  in  the  rest  of  the  house 
there  is  nothing  overhead  but  the  roof  and  rafters.  The  rafters 
are  very  heavy — about  6x4  inches.  The  floor  boards  are  of 
pitch  pine,  about  15  inches  wide.  The  bricks  in  the  chimneys 
are  of  the  same  length  as  modern  brick;  but  only  about  1^2 
inches  thick.  Probably  they  were  brought  across  the  ocean 
as  ballast  and  hauled  from  Kingston.  The  mortar  used  in  the 
building  is  of  loam,  lime  and  chopped  straw.  The  stone  in 
the  walls  are  only  such  as  a  farmer  would  use  in  building  an 
ordinary  stone  fence,  but  the  excellence  of  the  mortar  has  held 
the  stones  together  until  the  present  day. 

So  ends  our  description  of  the  house  of  the  richest  man  in 
the  town  in  1765,  for  as  such  do  we  find  Josiah  Eltinge's  name 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  491 

in  a  tax  list  of  that  date.  From  Josiah  Eltinge  the  old  home- 
stead passed  to  his  son,  Roelif  J-,  who  owned  it  during  the 
Revolutionary  period.  In  the  contest  between  the  Coetus  and 
Conferentia  parties  in  the  church  a  few  years  before  the  Revo- 
lutionary war,  which  doubtless  shook  the  little  community  to 
its  center,  Roelif  sided  with  the  latter  party,  attended  their 
church  when  erected,  near  Mr.  Wm.  H.  D.  Blake's,  and  when 
after  a  few  years  the  quarrel  was  settled  and  the  church  had 
stood,  unused  for  awhile,  he  removed  it  to  this  village. 

Roelif  J.  Eltinge  is  buried  in  the  old  graveyard  in  this  vil- 
lage and  his  tombstone,  of  dark  sandstone,  states  that  he  died 
on  the  21  st  of  July,  1796,  aged  58  years,  6  months  and  4  days. 
By  his  side  is  another  tombstone,  stating  that  "Mary  Louw, 
wife  of  R.  Elting,  departed  this  life  Aug.  24th,  1800,  aged  62 
years  and  7  days."  This  couple  left  five  sons  :  Josiah,  Ezekiel, 
Solomon,  John,  Roelif ;  also  four  daughters  :  Magdalen,  Sarah, 
Catharine  and  Maria.  Each  of  these  nine  children  of  Roelif 
J.  married  and  settled  in  this  vicinity  and  each  one  raised  a 
large  family  of  children. 

Josiah.  the  eldest  son,  married  Sarah  LeFevre  and  settled  on 
the  Turnpike  where  his  grandson,  Philip  L.  F.,  now  lives. 
Josiah  had  eight  children,  who  grew  up  and  married,  of  whom 
the  last  survivor  was  Gitty,  wife  of  Cornelius  D.  LeFevre. 
Josiah's  sons  were  Andries,  Roelif  and  Abm.  D.  B.  The 
daughters  of  Josiah  were  Maria,  wife  of  Dr.  John  Bogardus 
and  afterward  of  Abm.  P.  LeFevre;  Rachel,  wife  of  Ralph 
LeFevre ;  Cornelia,  wife  of  Peter  Deyo,  and  Magdalen,  wife 
of  Derick  W.  Elting. 

Ezekiel,  Roelif  J.'s  second  son,  kept  the  old  homestead  and 
long  carried  on  the  mercantile  business  in  partnership  with  his 
cousin,  Philip  Elting,  who  was  also  his  brother-in-law.  Later 
in  life,  in  1800,  Ezekiel  built  the  large  stone  house  where  Jesse 


492  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

M.  Elting  lived  many  years  in  our  day.  Here  the  mercantile 
business  continued  to  be  carried  on.  Ezekiel  married  Magda- 
len Elting  and  they  left  a  family  of  eight  children,  of  whom 
Jacob  Elting  of  Clintondale  was  the  last  survivor.  The  other 
children  of  Ezekiel  were  Solomon,  Alexander,  Dinah,  Maria, 
Sarah,  Catharine  and  Jane.  All  of  these  lived  in  New  Paltz  or 
adjoining  towns  except  Alexander,  who  located  at  Owasco  in 
western  New  York.  Dinah  married  C.  Brodhead  and  long 
carried  on  the  milling  business  at  Dashville  Falls,  Maria 
married  Andries  DuBois,  Catharine  married  Andries  Deyo. 
Ezekiel's  son  Solomon  lived  two  or  three  years  in  the  "Old 
Homestead"  and  afterwards  lived  and  carried  on  the  mercantile 
business  in  the  store  across  the  street  from  the  Huguenot  Bank. 
Solomon  was  elected  sheriff  of  the  county  in  1837.  He  was 
the  father  of  Abm.  V.  N.  of  this  village  and  Ezekiel  of 
Highland. 

Going  back  now  to  the  next  son  of  Roelif  J.,  who  was  named 
Solomon,  we  find  that  he  was  first  married  to  Cornelia  LeFevre 
and  afterwards  to  Rachel  Eckert  and  left  a  family  of  eleven 
children,  of  whom  Tobias  was  the  last  survivor.  Several  of 
this  family  located  at  a  distance.  Roelif,  the  eldest  son,  lived 
on  South  street  in  Lloyd.  There  were  only  two  other  sons, 
David  and  Solomon,  the  rest  of  the  eleven  children  being 
daughters. 

The  next  of  Roelif  J.'s  sons,  John,  married  Jane  Wurts  and 
lived  in  Esopus  opposite  Hyde  Park.  He  left  four  daughters 
and  only  one  son,  George,  who  has  a  son,  John,  who  is  now 
and  has  been  for  many  years  engaged  in  business  in  this  village. 
Roelif  J.'s  son  Roelif  lived  in  the  north  part  of  the  village, 
where  PhiUp  D.  Elting  now  lives.  He  married  Dinah  Elting. 
They  left  a  family  of  four  sons  and  five  daughters,  not  any  of 
whom  located  in  this  vicinitv.     Roelif  built  the  dvke  along  the 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  493 

Wallkill  about  1795.  Three  of  the  sons  were  Daniel  of  Ellen- 
ville  and  Brodhead  and  Ezekiel  of  Port  Ewen. 

We  have  said  that  Roehf  J.  left  four  daughters,  Magdalen, 
Sarah,  Catharine  and  Alaria.  All  of  these  married  in  this 
town  and  all  left  large  families  of  children.  The  eldest  daugh- 
ter, Magdalen,  married  Peter  LeFevre  and  they  left  a  family 
of  nine  children,  of  whom  Aloses  P.,  Magdalen  and  Josiah  P. 
were  the  last  survivors,  the  two  first  named  each  living  until 
upwards  of  90  years  of  age.  Magdalen,  who  died  in  1900, 
aged  nearly  93  years,  was  the  last  survivor  of  the  yy  grand- 
children of  Roelif  J.  Elting. 

The  next  of  Roelif  J.'s  daughters,  Sarah,  married  Wm. 
Deyo  and  lived  with  him  on  what  is  now  Oscar  Tschirkey's 
farm,  about  four  miles  north  of  this  village.  This  couple 
raised  a  family  of  five  sons  and  six  daughters,  all  of  these  eleven 
marrying  and  nearly  all  settling  in  this  immediate  vicinity. 
The  sons  of  this  family  were  William  W.,  Roelif,  Ezekiel, 
Cornelius  and  Abram  W. 

Roelif  J.'s  next  daughter,  Catharine,  married  Philip  Elting 
and  they  lived  about  a  mile  north  of  this  village,  where  their 
grandson,  Sol.  L.  F.,  now  lives.  This  couple  left  seven  chil- 
dren who  reached  maturity  and  five  married. 

Roelif  J.'s  youngest  daughter,  ^laria,  married  Garret  Du- 
Bois.  They  lived  on  what  is  now  the  southern  bound  of  the 
town,  where  their  son  Jacob  G.  and  their  grandsons,  Philip 
and  Solomon,  resided.  This  couple  left  four  sons,  Henry, 
Jacob,  Roelif  and  Solomon,  all  of  whom  married,  and  three 
daughters,  Catharine,  Rebecca  and  Maria.  Of  this  family 
Solomon,  who  lived  at  Vigo.  Ross  county,  Ohio,  was  the  last 
survivor. 

In  all  Roelif  J.  Elting  and  his  wife  had  yy  grandchildren 
who  grew   up.      ]\Iost   of   these  married   and   settled   in   this 


494  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

vicinity.  There  is  such  a  host  of  the  second  cousins  that  the 
old  homestead  would  not  begin  to  hold  them. 

Abram,  son-  of  Josiah  and  brother  of  Roelif  J.,  located 
where  his  great-grandson,  Sol.  L.  Eltinge,  now  lives,  about 
a  mile  north  of  this  village,  which  place  has  been  in  pos- 
session of  his  descendants  ever  since.  Abram  married  Dinah, 
daughter  of  Hendricus  DuBois  of  Nescatack.  They  left 
four  sons,  Josiah,  Henry,  Noah  and  Philip,  and  two  daugh- 
ters, Jane  and  Margaret;  also  one  son.  Jacobus,  by  the  second 
wife,  Dorothy  Bessimer.  Of  these  sons  Philip  kept  his  father's 
homestead.  He  carried  on  the  mercantile  business  in  this  vil- 
lage, many  years  in  partnership  with  his  cousin,  Ezekiel  El- 
tinge,  who  was  also  his  double  brother-in-law  ( each  marrying 
the  other's  sister)  in  the  stone  house  with  a  brick  front,  now 
owned  by  his  grandson,  Jesse  M.  Elting. 

Abram's  son  Josiah  married  Hester  Brodhead  and,  together 
with  his  brother  Henry,  who  did  not  marry,  built,  about  1786, 
the  brick  house  now  owned  and  occupied  by  ]\Ir.  Terpenning, 
about  23^  miles  north  of  this  village  and  which  is  by  far 
the  oldest  brick  house  in  this  town.  Josiah  died  in  1813,  May 
15th,  aged  52  years,  and  his  wife,  Hester,  in  1848,  at  the  ripe 
age  of  86  years.  Both  lie  buried  in  the  northwest  corner  of 
the  old  graveyard  in  this  village.  Josiah  left  four  sons,  Cor- 
nelius, Abm.  J.,  Charles  and  Richard.  The  last  named  studied 
medicine  and  located  in  Rondout,  where  he  became  a  very  noted 
physician.  Charles  lived  on  part  of  the  old  homestead  and 
built  his  house  where  his  grandson,  Watson,  lived.  Abm.  J. 
lived  for  a  time  in  the  brick  house  of  his  father.  One  of  Abm. 
J.'s  sons,  Edgar,  became  a  doctor  and  settled  in  Kingston. 
Another,  Norman,  was  educated  at  West  Point  Military  Acad- 
emy and  was  in  the  service  of  the  government  a  considerable 
time. 


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HOUSE   BUILT   BY    JOSIAH    ELTING — THE   OLDEST   BRICK    HOUSE   IN    THE   TOWN 


496  HISTORY  OF  NEW  P ALT Z 

We  will  now  take  up  the  history  of  Abram  Elting's  son 
Noah,  who  was  born  in  1763.  He  married  Hannah  Deyo  and 
located  at  New.Paltz  Landing  on  a  tract  of  500  acres.  His 
house  was  built  near  the  ferry  landing.  He  established  the 
ferry  to  Poughkeepsie,  which  at  first  was  propelled  by  oars 
and  sails,  giving  place  afterwards  to  horse  power,  and  finally 
to  steam  as  the  propelling  force.  Xoah  died  in  181 3  and  is 
buried  in  the  old  cemetery  at  Highland.  His  brother  Henry, 
of  whom  we  have  previously  spoken,  died  three  years  earlier 
and  is  buried  in  the  same  cemetery.  Noah  left  a  family  of 
five  sons,  viz. :  Abram,  Henry  D.,  Joseph,  Philip  and  David. 
Abram  commenced  the  freighting  business  by  running  a  sloop 
to  New  York  about  the  time  of  the  close  of  the  second  war 
with  England  and  he  continued  in  the  business  for  perhaps  40 
years,  his  son  Luther  being  latterly  associated  with  him  and 
the  sloop  giving  place  to  a  barge.  Noah's  son  Philip  erected 
the  first  buildings,  in  the  present  village  of  Highland,  about 
1825. 

Going  back  now  to  the  family  of  Abram's  son  Philip  at 
New  Paltz,  who  we  have  said  lived  about  a  mile  north  of  this 
village  and  long  carried  on  the  mercantile  business  here,  we 
find  that  he  married  Catharine  Eltinge.  They  left  a  family  of 
three  sons,  Moses,  Mathusalem  and  Jesse,  and  five  daughters, 
Maria,  Rebecca,  Dinah,  Magdalen  and  Gertrude.  Mathusalem 
occupied  the  homestead  of  his  father  up  to  the  time  of  his 
death,  since  which  time  it  has  been  occupied  by  the  son, 
Solomon  L.  F. 

Right  here  we  will  note  a  curious  instance  of  heredity  from 
a  female  ancestor.  The  Eltings  are  not  generally  noted  for 
their  large  size,  but,  as  we  have  stated,  Abram  Elting  married 
Dinah,  daughter  of  Hendricus  DuBois.  The  family  of  Hen- 
dricus  were  noted  for  their  goodlv  stature,  a  saving  of  an  old 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  497 

negro  being  still  remembered  that  more  large  people  had  prob- 
ably come  out  of  his  house  than  any  other  in  the  country.  Now, 
among  the  descendants  of  Abram  Elting  and  his  wife,  Dinah 
DuBois,  are  found  to  this  day  men  of  large  size.  The  Eltings, 
not  descended  from  this  line,  are  not  above  the  average  in 
physical  proportions. 

The  Hurley  Eltinges 

The  Hurley  Eltinges  are  descended  from  Cornelius,  the  son 
of  Josiah  and  brother  of  Roelif  J.,  and  Abram,  who  moved 
from  New  Paltz  about  the  time  of  the  Revolutionary  war  and 
located  on  a  farm  about  a  mile  south  of  Kingston,  which  is  still 
owned  by  the  family.  Cornelius  Eltinge  married  Blandina 
Elmendorf  and  left  a  family  of  three  sons,  Solomon,  Cornelius 
and  Wilhelmus,  and  four  daughters,  Jane,  who  married  Mat- 
thew Oliver ;  Polly,  who  married  David  Bevier ;  Blandina, 
who  did  not  marry,  and  Katie,  who  married  Dr.  Peter  Crispell. 
Two  of  Cornelius'  sons,  Wilhelmus  and  Cornelius,  became 
ministers  of  the  gospel.  The  first  named  located  at  Paramus, 
New  Jersey.  Cornelius  located  at  Port  Jervis.  The  son, 
Solomon,  kept  his  father's  homestead  at  Hurley  and  he  has 
descendants  still  living  at  the  place. 

Rev.  Wilhelmus  Elting  married  Jane  Houseman  and  they 
had  three  children,  Maria,  who  married  Cornelius  Van  Winkle, 
Jane  V.  W.,  who  married  Augustus  Hasbrouck  of  Shawan- 
gunk,  and  Cornelius,  who  married  Catharine  Hardenburgh, 
daughter  of  Jacobus  Hardenburgh  of  Marbletown. 

We  have  now  completed  the  history  of  the  Eltings  at  New 
Paltz — the  only  family  not  of  original  Huguenot  stock  that 
settled  here  at  an  early  date  and  increased  and  flourished  at 
New  Paltz. 

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498  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Before  closing  this  chapter  we  will  allude  to  the  personal 
characteristics  of  the  Eltings,  as  noted  by  the  old  people.  They 
are  an  active,  thrifty,  energetic  race,  given  to  sociability  and 
hospitality.  They  have  been,  almost  without  exception,  up- 
right, moral  and  church-going  people.  Bluntness  of  speech 
and  positiveness  in  dislikes  and  likes  may  be  considered  to 
some  extent  as  family  traits.  A  tendency  to  turn  gray  at  a 
comparatively  early  age  has  been  considered  by  the  old  people 
as  a  physical  characteristic. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  499 


CHAPTER  XLIV 

Families  Living  in  the  Congregation  but  not    in    the 
Precinct  of  New  Paltz 

The  Schoonmaker  Family  in  Gardiner 

Hendrick  Jochensen  Schoonmaker,  founder  of  the  Schoon- 
maker family  in  America,  was  a  native  of  Hamburg,  Germany. 
He  came  to  this  country  from  Holland  as  lieutenant  in  the  mili- 
tary service  of  the  Dutch  East  India  Company,  in  1654.  He 
was  sent  with  his  company  to  Fort  Orange  (Albany),  where  he 
later  became  an  innkeeper.  In  1659  he  was  sent  with  his  com- 
pany on  order  of  Governor  Stuyvesant  to  the  Esopus  (Kings- 
ton) to  assist  the  settlers  there  in  defending  themselves  against 
the  Indians.  He  was  so  attracted  by  the  beautiful  lands  in  the 
Esopus  country  that  on  his  return  to  Fort  Orange  he  sold  his 
property  there  and  located  among  the  people  he  had  been  sent 
to  defend.  He  married,  at  Fort  Orange,  Elsie,  daughter  of  Jan 
Janse  Van  Breestede.  He  died  in  1681.  He  left  five  children, 
of  whom  the  eldest,  Jochem  Hendrick,  married  Petronella  Sleght 
in  1679.  After  her  death  he  married  Ann  Hussey.  He  was  one 
of  the  pioneer  settlers  of  the  town  of  Rochester  and  was  one  of 
the  three  trustees  to  whom  a  patent  was  granted  in  1703.  He 
died  in  1713. 

By  his  first  wife  he  had  four  children.  The  eldest  of  these, 
Cornelius  B.,  married,  in  171 1,  Engeltje  Roosa.  They  had 
three  daughters  and  only  one  son.  Cornelius,  who  married,  in 
1744.  Arriantje  Hornbeck  of  Rochester. 

Cornelius  settled  on  a  large  tract  of  land  on  the  north  side  of 
Shawangunk,  which  he  purchased  from  the  James  Henderson 
patent,  which  adjoined  on  the  south  the  Zachariah  Hoffman 
patent.     He  died  in  Shawangunk  January  21,  1778. 


500  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

He  had  three  sons :  CorneHus  C,  Abraham  and  Isaac,  all  of 
whom  located  in  what  is  still  called  Schoonmakertown,  in  the 
present  town  of  "Gardiner.  The  son  Cornelius  C.  did  not  re- 
main in  that  locality.  Abram  and  Isaac  staid.  Abram  had  a 
family  of  seven  sons :  John  A.,  George,  David,  Moses,  Selah, 
Cornelius  and  Abram.  All  of  the  sons,  with  probably  one  ex- 
ception, settled  along  the  Marakill  and  all  married  and  left 
children. 

Isaac  married  Sarah  DuBois.  Their  eldest  child,  Mathusa- 
lem,  was  baptized  at  New  Paltz  in  1783.  Mathusalem  lived  at 
Tuthill.     Isaac  had  four  other  children  :   Harriet,  who  married 

Goetcheous ;    Policy,   who  married   Tjerick   DeWitt; 

Abraham,  who  married  Rachel  Deyo,  and  Jacob  I.  The  last 
named  married  Arriantje  Schoonmaker,  and  after  her  death 
Ann  Baird.  Jacob  I.  carried  on  the  blacksmith  business  at 
Libertyville,  and  afterwards  put  up  a  store  building  and  long 
carried  on  the  mercantile  business  at  that  place.  He  was  a 
member  of  Assembly  in  1828  and  again  in  1831.  It  was  during 
his  term  of  office  that  measures  were  taken  to  erect  the  first 
county  poorhouse  and  he  was  one  of  the  committee. 

From  the  late  Elihu  Schoonmaker,  who  was  a  son  of  Jacob 
I.,  the  information  was  obtained  concerning  the  location  of  the 
Schoonmaker  family  in  Gardiner. 

The  Ronk  Family 

The  ancestor  of  the  Ronk  family  in  Ulster  county  was  John 
George  de  Ranke.  He  lived  in  Belgium  near  the  French  line 
and  was  educated  for  the  ministry.  About  the  year  1740,  Bel- 
gium being  under  the  dominion  of  Holland,  having  incurred 
the  hostility  of  the  government,  de  Ranke  left  the  country  and 
fled  to  America.  He  married  his  wife,  Clara  Battle,  on  board 
the  ship. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  501 

In  1750  he  purchased  of  Frances  Barbaric,  daughter  of  Peter 
Barbaric,  the  patentee  of  that  tract,  245  acres,  at  $2.50  an  acre, 
on  the  Shawangunk  Plains  road.  He  built  a  log  house  on  this 
tract  by  a  big  spring  about  the  centre  of  the  portion  of  this 
tract  lying  on  the  west  side  of  the  road,  and  afterwards  a  stone 
house  on  the  extreme  north  part  of  the  tract.  This  house  was 
lately  owned  and  occupied  by  Mr.  Jacob  Tears.  In  the  same 
year  (1750)  he  joined  the  church  at  New  Paltz  by  letter  and 
he  was  elected  a  deacon. 

Some  time  afterwards  de  Ranke  made  a  second  purchase  of 
Frances  Barbaric  amounting  to  277  acres.  Afterwards  de 
Ranke  made  a  purchase  of  land  from  James  Erwin  joining  his 
previous  purchases  on  the  south  and  joining  Dr.  Phinney'sfarm. 

Ronk's  name  and  that  of  his  wife  appear  at  different  times 
on  the  New  Paltz  church  records  as  sponsors  at  the  baptism  of 
children,  and  in  1760  Ronk's  name  appears  as  sponsor  at  the 
baptism  of  his  grandchild,  Johannes  Ostrander. 

John  George  de  Rank  or  Ronk  (as  it  was  afterwards  written) 
left  four  sons,  Laurents,  John,  Philip  and  Cornelius ;  also  four 
daughters :  Christina,  who  married  Peter  Ostrander ;  Mar- 
garet, who  married  Peter  Pich ;  Janet,  who  married  Ezekiel 
Masten,  and  Anna,  who  married  Dr.  Plum  of  Plattekill, 

The  two  brothers,  John  and  Philip  Ronk,  were  at  Fort  Mont- 
gomery, when  it  was  taken  by  the  British  in  the  Revolutionary 
war,  but  they  escaped  to  the  mountains  and  returned  home. 

The  name  of  Cornelius  Ronk  appears  as  a  private  in  the  4th 
Regiment,  Ulster  County  Militia. 

Laurents  Ronk  left  but  one  child,  a  son  named  John  George. 
He  sold  his  father's  farm  and  bought  the  place  south  of  the 
Flint,  where  J.  J.  Van  Steenbergh  lived  before  emigrating  to 
California. 

John  Ronk,  one  of  the  four  brothers,  married  a  Sinsabagh. 


502  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

He  left  several  sons,  one  of  whom,  whose  name  was  Joseph, 
kept  the  farm. 

Laurents  Ronk,  the  eldest  son  of  John  George,  was  one  of 
the  organizers  of  the  church  at  New  Hurley  in  1770. 

The  name  of  his  father,  John  George,  does  not  appear  in  the 
church  records  until  three  or  four  years  after  the  organization 
of  the  church,  when  he  served  several  years  as  an  elder.  He 
was  probably  connected  with  the  church  at  New  Paltz  and  did 
not  unite  with  the  church  at  New  Hurley  at  its  first  organiza- 
tion. The  name  in  this  church  record  is  spelled  in  various 
w^ays — de  Rank,  Ranke,  Rank,  Rancke. 

John  George  divided  his  land  among  his  four  sons,  Laurents, 
John,  Philip  and  Cornelius.  The  first  named  received  five 
shillings  as  his  birthright.  He  had  only  100  acres  of  land  from 
his  father,  but  was  given  iSoo  in  money.  The  daughters  re- 
ceived £2^0  in  money. 

Laurents  (who  is  the  grandfather  of  the  late  A.  M.  Ronk 
of  Brooklyn),  lived  in  a  stone  house  which  he  built,  south  of  the 
New  Hurley  church  on  the  road  to  Wallkill.  John,  the  second 
son,  built  and  lived  in  a  stone  house  on  the  road  to  the  Wallkill. 
This  house  was  of  late  occupied  by  Mr.  Sutton.  Philip  built 
and  occupied  a  stone  house,  still  standing,  adjoining  the  Dr. 
Phinney  place.  Cornelius,  the  youngest  son,  kept  his  father's 
homestead.  The  houses  of  the  four  brothers  are  all  still  standing 
except  that  built  by  Laurents. 

The  Relyea  Family 

The  first  mention  we  find  of  any  Relyea  is  when  the  name  of 
Dennis  Relje  appears  as  godfather  at  the  baptism  of  a  child  of 
Hugo  Freer  and  his  wife,  Mary  LeRoy,  in  1693.  Dennis' 
wife's  name  was  Joanna  LeRoy.  Probably  she  and  Hugo 
Freer's  wife  were  sisters.       Dennis  Reljea  long  occupied  the 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  503 

house  on  the  Hudson,  just  south  of  Juff row's  Hook,  as  the 
point  was  called,  where  the  south  bounds  of  the  patent  struck 
the  river.  He  and  his  wife,  Joanna  LeRoy,  had  several  chil- 
dren baptized  in  the  Kingston  church — David  in  1703,  Claudina 
in  1706,  Hester  in  1708. 

Although  the  first  Dennis  Relje  had  children,  it  is  learned 
from  the  manner  in  which  the  location  is  mentioned  in  the  coft~ 
tract  of  1744,  that  they  did  not  occupy  the  house  on  the  Hudson 
after  his  death,  nor  do  we  find  any  further  mention  of  the  family 
until  in  1759,  when  David  Relyea,  doubtless  the  same  whose 
christening  is  recorded  in  1703,  appears  as  godfather  at  the 
baptism  of  David,  child  of  Dennis  Relje  and  Marytje  Van  Vleit 
at  Kingston.  In  1771  Dennis  and  his  wife,  Marytje  Van  Vleit, 
joined  the  church  at  New  Paltz.  It  was  probably  at  about  this 
time  that  Dennis  located  at  New  Hurley.  In  the  list  of  sol- 
diers of  the  Revolution  we  find  the  names  of  Dennis,  Peter, 
John  and  Simeon  Relje.  About  this  time  the  name  of  Simeon 
also  appears  in  the  New  Paltz  church  book.  In  1793  David 
Relyea  and  his  wife,  Lana  Ostrander,  joined  the  New  Paltz 
church  by  letter  from  New  Hurley.  In  1795  Dennis  Relyea 
was  an  elder  in  the  New  Paltz  church. 

The  Smith  Family  at  Swartekill 

The  territory  lying  north  of  the  Paltz  patent  in  the  present 
town  of  Esopus,  on  the  east  side  of  the  Wallkill,  was  called 
Swartekill  by  the  old  people,  and  the  name  is  still  applied  to 
the  locality  a  little  north  of  Rifton.  We  are  indebted  to  Mr. 
William  Smith,  the  Sunday  school  missionary,  for  information 
concerning  the  early  history  of  the  Swartekill  neighborhood, 
derived  mainly  from  his  grandfather,  William  Smith,  as  fol- 
lows :  Probably  the  first  settler  in  this  neighborhood  was  his 
ancestor.  Hendrick  Smit,  the  first  of  the  name  in  this  country. 


504  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

He  came  from  Holland  in  the  same  ship  with  Jacob  Rutsen, 
who  was  the  first  settler  at  Rosendale  and  father-in-law  of 
Johannes  Hardehbergh,  the  first  of  the  name  in  Ulster  county. 
Rutsen  paid  Smit's  passage  across  the  ocean  and  the  latter 
worked  for  some  time  to  repay  the  money  advanced.  He  then 
got  a  life  lease  for  eighty  acres  of  land  on  the  east  side  of  the 
Wallkill  and  included  in  the  Hardenbergh  patent.  There  were 
no  definite  bounds  assigned  to  the  eighty  acres,  except  that  it 
bounded  on  the  south  on  the  Paltz  patent.  It  lay  east  of  the 
Dashville  falls.  The  house  was  built  about  1715,  at  about  the 
same  date  that  Hugo  Freer,  Jr.,  Hendricus  Deyo  and  Isaac 
LeFevre  located  on  the  Wallkill  in  the  northern  part  of  the 
Paltz  patent.  The  annual  rent  paid  by  Smit  was  "a  hen  and  a 
rooster."  In  his  old  days  he  obtained  a  deed  for  the  eighty 
acres,  which  has  never  been  put  on  record.  But  the  property 
has  descended  in  the  family  from  father  to  son  for  175  years, 
and  the  name  of  the  owner  has  alternated  from  William  to 
Henry  for  the  whole  time.  During  the  entire  period  there 
never  has  been  a  mortgage  on  the  property.  Our  informant 
has  a  son,  Henry,  who  has  a  son  named  William,  so  the  custom 
of  naming  the  infant  son  for  its  grandfather  has  been  continued 
to  the  present  day. 

The  house,  partly  of  stone  and  partly  of  frame,  is  situated 
a  snort  distance  east  of  Rifton.  The  very  first  house  on  the 
place  was  of  logs.  Some  time  ago  an  examination  of  the  walls 
disclosed  a  small  loose  stone,  which  on  being  pulled  out  proved 
to  be  a  whetstone,  bearing  the  date  1704. 

Our  informant's  grandfather,  William  Smith,  was  a  soldier 
in  the  army  of  the  Revolution.  At  the  age  of  seventy-two  he 
attended  the  gathering  of  Revolutionary  soldiers  at  Kingston, 
in  183 1,  half  a  century  after  the  surrender  of  Yorktown.  He 
drew  a  pension  of  three  dollars  a  month  in  his  old  age  and  was 
assigned  bounty  lands  at  Hurley. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  505 


CHAPTER  XLV 

Genealogy  of  the  French  Settlers  of  New  Paltz 
TO  THE  Third  Generation 

BY    LOUIS    BEVIER 

The  reformation  in  France  in  the  sixteenth  century  included 
among  its  adherents  many  of  the  nobility  as  well  as  the  com- 
mon people  who,  as  a  whole,  constituted  a  large  and  influential 
part  of  the  population  of  most  of  the  provinces  of  France. 

Whenever  the  persecutions  of  the  government  and  Romish 
hierarchy  became  particularly  oppressive  and  violent  the  Hu- 
guenots, as  they  were  called  in  derision  by  their  enemies,  living 
in  Catholic  communities  and  under  Catholic  rulers,  were  often 
obliged  to  seek  refuge  from  the  storm  in  those  communities, 
where  their  co-religionists  were  in  greater  number  so  as  to  be 
able  to  afford  them  some  protection,  more  particularly  to  those 
provinces  where  the  Huguenot  princes  were  in  authority. 
These  movements  of  the  Huguenot  population  continued  at 
intervals  down  to  1628,  when  Rochelle,  the  last  of  their  strong- 
holds, was  taken  by  Cardinal  Richelieu,  the  minister  of  Louis 
Xni,  and  the  power  of  the  Huguenots  as  a  political  party  was 
broken,  and  from  this  time  all  prudent  persons  foresaw  that 
there  remained  no  adequate  security  that  the  peace  and  tolera- 
tion now  freely  promised  by  the  king  would  be  maintained. 
Thev  had  too  often  proved  by  sad  experience  that  Catholic 
princes  acted  on  the  maxim  that  "no  faith  should  be  kept  with 
heretics,"  to  trust  the  sincerity  of  the  king  and  his  advisers; 
hence  large  numbers  sought  asylums  in  the  neighboring  Cal- 
vinistic  States  where  they  might  enjoy  those  rights  and  privi- 


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MR.    LOUIS    BEVIER,    OF    MARELETOWN 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  507 

leges  which  were  denied  them  at  home.  So  a  more  general 
emigration  was  inaugurated  throughout  the  kingdom,  and 
France  lost  thousands  of  her  most  quiet  and  industrious  citi- 
zens to  the  manifest  and  acknowledged  advantage  of  the  Neth- 
erlands, England,  Switzerland  and  the  Palatine  provinces.  The 
French  government  from  time  to  time  increased  the  difficulties 
in  the  way  of  these  fugitives  vnitil  after  the  revocation  of  the 
Edict  of  Nantes,  in  1685,  their  flight  was  absolutely  forbidden. 
Yet  still  members,  by  one  device  or  another,  managed  to  es- 
cape to  their  brethren  who  had  preceded  them. 

About  the  year  1650  the  band  of  Huguenots  who  afterward 
associated  as  patentees  of  New  Paltz,  began  to  gather  from 
their  several  homes  in  France  in  the  vicinity  of  Manheim  in 
the  Palatinate  where  they  sojourned  about  ten  years,  during 
which  time  some  of  those  friendships  and  connections  were 
formed  which  survived  the  transplanting  to  the  new  world. 

Whilst  they  were  in  the  Palatinate  they  affiliated  with  the 
churches  there  and  enjoyed  the  confidence  and  respect  of  the 
church  officials.  This  is  evidenced  by  the  certificates  given 
by  the  pastors  to  many  of  the  emigrants  on  leaving  for  their 
new  homes. 

One  of  these  given  by  Jacob  Amyot,  the  noted  pastor  of  the 
church  at  ]\lutterstadt  near  Manheim,  to  Pierre  Deio,  is  still 
in  possession  of  one  of  his  descendants  at  New  Paltz,  by  whom 
it  is  valued  as  a  precious  relic  of  the  past.  This  is  dated 
January  31,  1675,  the  year  preceding  his  arrival  at  Wiltwyck. 
It  is  said  that  the  heirs  of  Jean  Hasbrouck,  one  of  the  paten- 
tees, held  a  similar  certificate  dated  March  16,  1672,  and  Peter 
Gumaer's  heirs  hold  a  similar  paper  dated  Moise,  April  20, 
1686.  Doubtless  others  of  a  like  character  were  brought  by 
each  of  these  emigrant  families. 

Matthew    Blanshan   and   his   wife,    Maddeleen   Jorisse,   and 


5o8  HISrOR  Y  0  F  NE  W  PA  L  TZ 

their  son-in-law,  Anthony  Chrispel,  with  his  wife,  Maria  Blan- 
shan,  and  three  younger  children  of  Blanshan,  were  the  first 
of  these  refugees  to  set  sail  for  the  new  world  in  the  Gilded 
Otter,  April  27,  1660.  They  arrived  at  Wiltwyck  before  De- 
cember 7,  1660,  for  at  that  date  we  find  Dominie  Blom's 
record  of  their  presence  at  his  first  celebration  of  the  Lord's 
Supper. 

The  next  arrival  from  this  band  was  another  son-in-law  of 
Blanshan,  Louis  DuBois,  who,  with  his  wife,  Catharine  Blan- 
shan, and  their  two  young  children,  Abraham  and  Isaac,  aged 
respectively  four  and  two  years,  arrived  at  Wiltwyck  in  1661. 
Matthew  Blanshan  and  his  two  sons-in-law  settled  at  the  new 
village  (now  Hurley)  as  early  as  1662.  At  the  time  of  its 
burning  by  the  Indians,  June  7,  1663,  Matthys  Blanshan's  two 
children,  Louis  DuBois'  wife  and  three  children  and  Anthony 
Chrispel's  wife  and  child  were  taken  prisoners  and  remained 
among  their  captors  about  three  months,  when  they  were  at 
length  restored  to  their  friends.  It  was  during  the  eiiforts  to 
recover  the  prisoners,  held  by  the  Indians,  that  attention  was 
first  drawn  to  the  lands  along  the  Wallkill  where  New  Paltz 
was  subsequently  located. 

The  LeFevre  brothers,  Simon  and  Andre,  were  in  Wiltwyck 
and  united  with  the  church  there  April  23,  1665.  The  exact 
date  of  their  emigration  is  unknown.  They  were  young,  un- 
married men  at  this  time  and  brought  to  their  new  home  the 
energy  and  enthusiasm  for  the  reformed  faith,  which  charac- 
terized the  eminent  scholar  of  their  name.  Jacobus  Stapulensis 
Faber  or  LeFevre. 

Advised  of  the  unsettled  condition  of  the  New  Netherlands, 
no  more  emigrants  left  the  colony  in  the  Palatinate  until  May 
17,  1672,  when  Jean  Hasbrouck  and  wife,  Anna,  daughter  of 
Christian  Deyo,  and  their  two  daughters,   Mary  and  Hester, 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  509 

set  out  from  Manheim  and  arrived  at  Wiltwyck  in  the  spring 
of  1673.  Jean  Hasbrouck  and  his  brother  Abraham  (of  whom 
we  shall  speak  later)  were  originally  from  the  vicinity  of  Calais 
before  their  emigration  to  the  Palatinate. 

Louis  Beviere  and  his  wife  Alaria  LaBlan  followed  shortly 
after  to  New  York,  in  1673,  but  made  no  permanent  settle- 
ment until  1677  when  the  settlement  at  New  Paltz  took  place. 
His  two  children,  born  before  that  time,  were  baptized  else- 
where. 

Hugh  Frere  and  his  wife,  Alary  Haye,  and  three  children, 
Hugh,  Abraham  and  Isaac,  arrived  about  1676,  but  there  is  no 
record  of  his  appearance  at  Wiltwyck  until  the  purchase  of 
the  land  from  the  Indians  and  patent  from  Androsy  September 
29,  1677. 

About  this  time  Christian  Deyo,  with  Pierre  Deyo  and  his 
wife,  Agatha  Nickol,  and  their  child  Christian,  came  over  and 
accompanied  by  the  three  unmarried  daughters  of  Christian, 
viz. :  Maria,  Elizabeth  and  Margaret.  Maria  married  Abra- 
ham Hasbrouck,  the  brother  of  Jean,  mentioned  before,  Novem- 
ber 17,  1676;  Elizabeth  married  Simon  LeFevre,  1676;  Mar- 
garet married  Abraham  DuBois,  1681.  Thus  Christian  Deyo, 
the  oldest  of  the  twelve  patentees,  gathered  all  of  his  family 
around  him  again  in  the  Neiv  Paltz,  as  they  had  been  before 
in  the  German  Palatinate. 

Abraham  Hasbrouck  sailed  from  Amsterdam  in  1675  and 
landed  at  Boston,  and  in  July  rejoined  his  brother  Jean  and  his 
other  friends. 

In  May,  1677,  Louis  DuBois  and  his  associates  obtained,  by 
purchase,  the  title  from  the  Indians  to  all  the  lands  from  the 
Shawangunk  mountains  to  the  Hudson  river,  which  were  more 
particularly  described  in  the  patent  subsequently  given  by 
Governor  Andros  September  29th  of  the  same  year.     The  Pat- 


510  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

entees  as  named  in  said  Patent  were  Louis  DuBois,  Christian 
Doyau,  Abraham  Hasbrouck,  Andre  LeFebvre,  Jean  Has- 
brouck,  Pierre  Dpyau,  Louis  Beviere,  Anthoine  Crespel,  Abra- 
ham DuBois,  Hugue  Frere,  Isaac  DuBois  and  Simon  LeFebvre. 
These  men  and  their  famihes  removed  to  their  patent  lands 
and  there  founded  the  village  of  New  Paltz  in  the  spring  of 
the  subsequent  year.  Here  in  1683  they  organized  the  French 
Reformed  church,  electing  Louis  DuBois  as  elder  and  Hugo 
Frere  deacon.  They  adopted  the  confession  of  faith  framed 
by  the  first  Synod  of  the  Reformed  church  of  France  in  the 
year  1559  and  the  other  formularies  of  the  French  Reformed 
church.  These  continued  in  use  in  the  church  and  its  school 
until  the  change  from  the  French  to  the  Dutch  language  was 
made,  when  the  Heidelberg  catechism  took  their  place  and 
the  French  church  was  merged  into  the  Reformed  Dutch 
church. 

Below  is  a  short  account  of  the  twelve  patentee  families  to 
the  third  generation. 

The  Children  of  Louis  DuBois,  the  Patentee 

The  children  of  Louis  DuBois  and  Catharine  Blanshan  were : 

Abraham,  b.  1657,  ^t  Manheim ;  m.  Margaret  Deyo  (daugh- 
ter of  Christian),  March  6,  1681 ;  settled  at  New  Paltz,  1678; 
d.  October  7,  1731. 

Isaac,  b.  cir.  1659,  at  Manheim;  m.  Marie  Hasbrouck  (b. 
Mutterstadt  cir.  1662),  June,  1683  ;  settled  at  New  Paltz,  1678; 
d.  June  28,  1690. 

Jacob,  b.  October  9,  1661,  at  New  Village  (Hurley)  ;  m. 
Gitty  Garretson  (b.  February  15,'  1665),  March  25,  1689; 
settled  at  Hurley;    d.  1745. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  511 

Sarah,  b.  September  14,  1664,  at  Hurley;  m.  Joost  Jansen  of 
Marbletown,  December  12,  1682. 

David,  b.  March  13,  1667,  at  Hurley;  m.  Cornelia  Vernooy 
(b.  April  3.  1667),  March  8,  1689;    settled  at  Rochester. 

Solomon,  b.  1670,  at  Hurley;  m.  Tryntje  Garretson  (b.  cir. 
1671),  cir.  1692;  settled  at  New  Paltz  (Poughwaughtenonk)  ; 
d.  1759. 

Rebecca,  b.  June  18,  1671  ;    d.  young. 

Rachel,  b.  April  18,  1675 ;   d.  young. 

Louis,  b.  1677;  m.  Rachel  Hasbrouck  (daughter  of  Abm., 
b.  cir.  1679),  January  19,  1701 ;  settled  at  New  Paltz  (Nesca- 
tack)  ;   d.  after  1729. 

Matthew,  b.  January  3,  1679,  at  New  Paltz;  m.  Sarah  Mat- 
thysen  (daughter  of  Matthys  Matthysen  and  Tjatje  Dewitt, 
b.  April  17,  1678)  ;    settled  at  Kingston. 

Children  of  Abraham  DuBois 
The  children  of  Abraham  and  Margaret  Deyo  were : 

Sarah,  b.  New  Paltz,  ]\Iay  18.  1682;  m.  Roelif  Eltinge,  June 
13,  1703,  New  Paltz. 

Abraham,  b.  April  17,  1685;    m.  ;    settled  Somerset 

county,  N.  J. 

Leah,  b.  New  Paltz,  October  16.  1687;  m.  Philip  Ferre; 
settled  Lancaster  county,  Penn. 

Twins — Mary,  d.  young;  Rachel,  b.  New  Paltz,  October 
13,  1689;  m.  Isaac  DuBois  (son  of  Solomon),  April  6,  1713; 
settled  at  PesKoine  Creek,  Penn. 

Catharine,  b.  New  Paltz,  May  21.  1693;  m.  Wm.  Donnelson, 
October  24,  1728;    settled  at  Lancaster  county.  Penn. 

Noah,  b.  February  18,  1700;   d.  young. 

Joel,  b.  New  Paltz,  1703;    d.  1734. 


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Children  of  Isaac  DuBois 

The  children  of  Isaac  and  ]\Iaria  Hasbrouck  were  : 

Daniel,  b.  April  28,  1684;  m.  ^Xlary  LeFevre  (daughter  of 
Simon),  June  8,  1713,  New  Paltz. 

Benjamin,  b.  April  16,  1689;    d.  young. 

Philip,  b.  May  14,  1690;  m.  Esther  Gumser  (daughter  of 
Peter),  Rochester. 

Children  of  Jacob  DuBois 

The  children  of  Jacob  and  Gitty  Gerretson  were : 

Magdalena,  b.  May  25,  1690;  m.  ist,  Garret  Roosa,  Decem- 
ber 30,  1710;  m.  2d,  Peter  VanEst,  October  20,  1718.     Hurley. 

Barent,  b.  Alay  3,  1693;  m.  Jacomyntje  DuBois  (daughter 
of  Sol.),  Pittsgrove,  N.  J. 

Louis,  b.  January  6,  1695  ;  m.  ist,  Jane  VanVliet,  April  16, 
1718;  m.  2d.  Margaret  Jansen,  May  22,  1720,  Pittsgrove,  N.  J. 

Geiltje,  b.  INIay  13,  1697;  "i-  Cornelius  NieuKirk,  Septem- 
ber 3,  1737. 

Gerrit,  b.  March  29,  1700;   d.  in  infancy. 

Isaac,  b.  February  i,  1702;  m.  ist,  Nseltje  Roosa,  August 
5,  1732;    m.  2d.  Jannetje  Roosa,  October  15,  1760,  Kingston. 

Gerrit,  b.  February  13,  1704;  m.  ]^Iargaret  Elmondorf,  July 
18,  1730. 

Catrina,  b.  March  17,  1706;  m.  Petrus  Smedes,  January  24, 
1725,  Hurley. 

Rebecca,  b.  October  31,  1708;  m.  Petrus  Bogardus,  Septem- 
ber 15,  1726. 

Johannes,  b.  October  10.  1710;  m.  Judith  Wynkoop  (daugh- 
ter of  Corn.),  December  14,  1736,  Hurley. 

Sarah,  b.  December  20,  1713:  m.  Conrad  Elmondorf  (son 
of  Conrad),  May  2^,  1734,  Kingston. 


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Children  of  David  DuBois 

The  children  of  David  and  Cornelia  Vernooy  were; 

Catrina,  b.  May  25,  1690;   d.  in  infancy. 
Catryn,  b.  April  7,  1692;   m.  Wm.  Kool  (son  of  Leonard). 
Hanna,  b.  October  11,  1696. 
Anna,  b.  March  28,  1703;   m.  Jacob  Vernooy. 
Josaphat,  b.  March  17,  1706;    m.  Tjatje  VanKeuren,  April 
21,  1730. 

Elizabeth,  b.  October  31,  1708. 

Children  of  Solomon  DuBois 

The  children  of  Solomon  and  Trintje  Garretson  were : 

Isaac,  b.  September  27,  1691 ;    m.  Rachel  DuBois  (daugh- 
ter of  Abm.),  Perkiomen,  Pa. 

Jacomyntje,  b.   1693;    m.   Barrent  DuBois   (son  of  Jacob), 
April  23,  171 5,  Pennsylvania. 

Benjamin,  b.  May  16,   1697;    m.  Catrina  Zuyland,  Catskill. 

Sarah,  b.  January  i,  1700;  m.  Simon  Jacobse  Van  Wagenen, 
November  17,  1720,  Marbletown. 

Catryn,  b.  October  18,  1702;   d.  in  infancy. 

Cornelius,  b.  ;    m.  Anna  Margaret  Hotaling,  April 

7,  1729,  Poughwoughtenonk. 

Magdalena,  b.  April  15,  1705;   d.  young. 

Catharine,  b.  ;    m.  Petrus  Mathens  Louw,  December 

9,  1722,  Poughwoughtenonk. 

Deborah,  b.  ;    probably  died  young. 

Hendricus,  b.   December  31,   1710;    m.  Jannetje  Hotaling, 
April  15,  1733,  Nescatack. 

Magdalena,  b.  December  20,  1713;  m.  Josiah  Elting  (son  of 
Roelif),  May  6,  iy2>4-     New  Paltz. 
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Children  of  Louis  DuBois 
The  children  of  Louis  and  Rachel  Hasbrouck  were : 

Maria,  b.  December  i,  1701 ;   d.  in  infancy. 

Nathaniel,  b.  June  6,  1703;  m.  ist,  Gertrude  Bruyn,  May 
17,  1726;  m.  2d,  (iertrude  Hoffman,  Salisbury  Mills,  Orange 
county. 

Mary,  b.  March  24,  1706. 

Jonas,  b.  June  20,  1708. 

Jonathan,  b.  December  31,  1710;  m.  Eliz.  LeFevre  (daugh- 
ter of  Andries),  December  25,  1732,  Nescatack. 

Catrina,  b.  October  31.  171 5;   m.  Wessel  Brodhead,  January 

25.  1734- 

Louis,  b.  1717;    m.  Charity  Andrevelt,  Staten  Island. 

Children  of  Matthew  DuBois 

The  children  of  Matthew  and  Sarah  Matthysen  were : 

Louis,  b.  July  18,  1697. 

Matthens,  b.  October  9,  1698. 

Hiskiah,  b.  January  26,  1701  ;  m.  Anna  Pierson,  June  17, 
1722. 

Ephraim,  b.  May  30,  1703;  m.  Anna  Catrien  Delamater. 

Johannes,  b.  March  17,  1706;  m.  Rebecca  Tappen,  Novem- 
ber 16,  1728. 

Tjatje,  b.  November  2.  1707. 

Jesse,  b.  February,  1709. 

Ehza.  b.  October  4,  171 3. 

Catrina,  b.  December  4,  171 5. 

Gideon,  b.  January  11,  1719. 

Jeremiah,  b.  May  18,  172 1. 


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The  Children  of  Christian  Deyo,  the  Patentee 

Christian  Deyo  had  five  children  who  were  all  probably  born 
before  he  went  to  Germany. 

Anna,  b.  1644;    m.  Jean  Hasbrouck. 

Pierre  (Peter),  b.  between  1646-1650;  m.  Agatha  Nickol, 
about  1672 ;  settled  at  New  Paltz,  and  was  one  of  the  Patentees. 

Maria,  b.  1653;  ^'^-  Abraham  Hasbrouck,  November  17,  1676. 

Elizabeth,  ;   m.  Simon  LeFevre,  about  1678. 

Margaret, ;   m.  Abm.  DuBois,  about  1680  or  1681. 

Children  of  Pierre  Deyo 

The  children  of  Pierre  Deyo  and  Agatha  Nickol  were : 

Christian,  b.  1674,  in  Palatinate;  m.  Mary  Le  Conte  (or  as 
translated  into  Dutch  DeGroff,  in  church  records  it  appears  in 
both  forms).  February  20,  1702. 

Abraham,  b.  October  16,  1676;  m.  Elsie  Clearwater,  Octo- 
ber, 1725.     New  Paltz  (Village). 

Mary,  b.  April  20,  1679. 

Pierre,  baptized  October  14,  1683. 

Margaret,  baptized  October  14,  1683. 

Maddeline,  b.  April  16,  1689. 

Henricus,  b.  October  12,  1690;  m.  December  31,  1715,  Mar- 
garet Wanboom    (or  VanBummel).     New   Paltz   (Bontecoe). 

Children  of  Christian  Deyo 

The  children  of  Christian  and  Mary  Le  Conte  were : 

Peter,  b.  1702;    probably  d.  young. 

Jacobus,  b.  January  16,  1704;  m.  Janetje  Freer.  October 
28.  1724:    removed  to  Kingston  before  1738. 


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Moses,  b.  January  26,  1706;  m.  Clarissa  Stohraad,  of  Hoog- 
drytslandt,  April  17,  1728. 

Maria,  b.  September  11,  1709;  m.  Jeems  Achmootie,  Sep- 
tember 19,  1 73 1,  Bontecoe. 

Angenieter,  b.  March  30,  1712;    probably  d.  young. 

Esther,  b.  February  27,  1715;  m.  Hugo  Hugosen  Freer, 
August  18,  1738. 

Margaret,  b.  January  27,  1717;  m.  Marinus  Van  Acken, 
August  30,  1740  (2d  wife). 

Children  of  Abraham  Deyo 
The  children  of  Abraham  and  Elsie  Clearwater  were : 

Marytje,  b.  November  7,  1708;  m.  Isaac  Freer,  August  24, 
1723.     New  Paltz. 

Wyntje,  b.  January  24,  1708;   m.  Daniel  Hasbrouck. 

Abraham,  b.  October  16,  1710;  m.  Elizabeth  DuBois.  New 
Paltz  (Village). 

Children  of  Henry  Deyo 
The  children  of  Henry  and  Margaret  Wamboom  were : 

Debora,  b.  January  27,  1717;  m.  Petrus  Ostrander,  Febru- 
ary 19,  1749.     New  Hurley. 

Peter,  Jr.,  b.  November  9,  1718;  m.  Eliz.  Helm,  January 
14,  1765.     Tuthill. 

Isaac,  b.  March  11,  1723;   m.  Agatha  Freer. 

Benjamin,  b.  May  30,  1725;  m.  Jennek  Van  Vliet,  Novem- 
ber 10,  1 75 1.     Bontecoe. 

Johannis,  b.  November  6,  1726;  m.  Sara  Van  Wagenen, 
November  20,  1756.     Springtown. 

Christoffel.  b.  February  4.  1728;  m.  Debora  Van  Vliet. 
vSpringtown. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  517 

Haggetta,  b.  October  19,  1729;  m.  John  Freer,  May  5,  1769. 
Buntecoe. 

Henricns,  b.  1731 ;  m.  Eliz.  Beem,  October  13,  1753;  buried 
at  Highland,  1805. 

Sarah,  b.  September  16,  1733;    m.  Isaac  Van  Wagenen. 

David,  b.  January  9,  1739. 

The  Children  of  Abraham  Hasbrouck,  the  Patentee 

Abraham  Hasbrouck  with  his  wife,  Maria  Deyo,  emigrated 
in  1675  and  settled  at  Kingston,   1676.     Their  children  were: 

Anna,  b.  October  9,  1682 ;   d.  young. 

Joseph,  b.  January  28,  1684;  m.  Elsie  Schoonmaker  (daugh- 
ter of  Joachim),  October  2y,  1706.     Guilford. 

Solomon,  b.  October  6,  1686;  m.  Sara  Van  Wagenen,  April 
7,  1 72 1.     New  Paltz  (Middletown). 

Jonas,  b.  October  14,  1691 ;    probably  d.  young. 

Daniel,  b.  June  23,  1692;  m.  Wyntje  Deyo  (daughter  of 
Abm.),  April  2,  1734;    d.  June,  1759.     New  Paltz  (Village). 

Benjamin,  b.  May  31,  1696;  m.  Jannetje  DeLange,  Febru- 
ary 13,  1737.     Dutchess  county. 

Rachel  (probably  the  oldest  child)  ;  m.  Louis  DuBois,  Janu- 
ary 19,  1 701. 

Children  of  Joseph  Hasbrouck 

The  children  of  Joseph  and  Elsie  Schoonmaker  were  : 

Abraham,  b.  October  19,  1707;  m.  Catharine  Bruyn.  Janu- 
ary 5,  1739-     Kingston. 

Sarah,  b.  February  18,  1709;   m.  William  Osterhoudt. 

Isaac,  b.  March  17,  1712;  m.  Antje  Low  (widow  of  John 
Van  Gasbeck).     Shawangunk,  south  of  Tuthill. 


5iS  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Mary,  b.  January  lo.  1714;  m.  ist,  John  Gasherie;  m.  2d, 
Abm.  Hardenberg. 

Petronella,  b.  December  25,  1710;  m.  Simon  LeFevre,  June 
24,  1735.     New  Paltz  (Village). 

Rachel,  b.  November  11,  1715;   m.  Jan  Eltinge. 

Jacob,  b.  May  5,  1717;  m.  Mary  Hornbeck,  October  17, 
T  746.     Kyserike. 

Benjamin,  b.  June  28,  1719;  m.  Ellidia  Schoonmaker.  Sha- 
wangunk  (Borden  Home  Farm). 

Cornelius,  b.  September  5,  1720. 

Jonathan,  b.  April  12,  1722;  m.  Cath.  DuBois  (daughter  of 
Cor's),  May,  1751.     Newburgh. 

Children  of  Solomon  Hasbrouck 

The  children  of  Solomon  and  Sarah  Van  Wagenen  were : 

Abraham,  Jr.,  b.  March  11,  1722;  m.  Rachel  Sleight,  June 
28,  1749. 

Jacobus,  b.  January  3.  1725;   d.  in  infancy. 

Jacobus,  b.  January  i,  1727;  m.  Divertje  Van  Wagenen, 
March  19,  1755. 

John,  b.  February  i.  1730;  m.  Rachel  Van  Wagenen,  De- 
cember 24,  1763. 

Daniel,  b.  October  18,  1732  (no  records). 

Simon,  b.  December  25,  1735. 

Petrus,  b.  August  20,  1738;  m.  Sarah  Bevier  (daughter  of 
Abraham),  October  25,  1765.     New  Paltz. 

Elias.  b.  June  21,  T741  :   m.  Elizabeth  Sleight.     Kingston. 

Children  of  Daniel  Hasbrouck 

The  children  of  Daniel  and  Wyntje  Deyo  were : 
Maria,  b.  January  9.  1735. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  FALTZ  519 

Jonas,  b.  May   16,  1736;    m.  Catharine  DuBois,  August  i, 

1765- 

Josaphat,  b.  April  29,  1739;  m.  Cornelia  DuBois.     Plattekill. 

David,  b.  June  8,  1740;  m.  Maritje  Haughland.  New  Paltz, 
Butterville. 

Elsie,  b.  July  4,  1742;   m.'Petrus  Smedes.     Hurley. 

Rachel,  b.  October  30,  1743. 

Isaiah,  b.  April  13,  1746;  m.  Mary  Bevier  (daughter  of 
Abm.).     New  Paltz. 

Benjamin,  b.  January  31,  1748;  m.  1st,  Antje  Bevier;  m. 
2d,  Maria  Bevier.     New  Paltz. 

Zachariah,  b.  June  24.  1749;  m.  Rebecca  Waring. 

Children  of  Benjamin  Hasbrouck 

The  children  of  Benjamin  and  Jannetje  DeLange  were: 

Daniel. 

Benjamin. 

John. 

Jacob. 

Mary,  m.  John  Halstead. 

Heiltje,  m.  Dr.  Nathaniel  House. 

Francis,  m.  Elizabeth  Brinkerhoflf. 

The  Children  of  Jean  Hasbrouck,  the  Patentee 
The  children  of  Jean  Hasbrouck  and  Anna  Deyo  were: 

Mary,  b.  ;    m.  Isaac  DuBois   (son  of  Louis),   1683. 

New  Paltz  (Village). 

Hester,  b.  ;  m.  Peter  Gumaer,  April  i.  1692.  Mini- 
sink. 


520  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Abraham,  b.  March  31,  1678  (went  abroad  and  never  re- 
turned.    See  will.) 

Isaac,  b.  April  17,  1680;    d.  before  1712.      (See  will.) 

EHzabeth,  b.  February  25,  1685;  m.  Louis  Bevier,  June  2, 
1713.     Marbletown. 

Jacob,  b.  April  15,  1688;  m.  Hester  Bevier  (daughter  of 
Louis  1st),  December  14,  1717.     New  Paltz  (Village). 

Children  of  Jacob  Hasbrouck 
The  children  of  Jacob  and  Hester  Bevier  were : 

Jan,  b.  December  16,  1716;   d.  young. 

Benjamin,  b.  April  17,  1719;  d.  October  14,  1747.  (Killed 
by  a  falling  tree.) 

Isaac,  b.  March  11,  1722;  m.  Maria  Bruyn,  August  30,  1745. 
Marbletown. 

Lowies,  b.  February  21,  1725;   d.  in  infancy. 

Jacob,  b.  May  7,  1727;  m.  Jannetje  DuBois,  April  12,  1756. 
New  Paltz. 

Children  of  Isaac  Hasbrouck 
The  children  of  Isaac  and  Maria  Bruyn  were : 

Jacob  I.,  b.  September  28,  1746;  m.  Sarah  DuBois  (daugh- 
ter of  Cor's).     Calbergh,  Marbletown. 

John,  b.  ;    m.  Mary  Hasbrouck  (daughter  of  Jacob 

A.).     Rest  Place,  Marbletown. 

Jacobus,  b.  February  19,  1749;   d.  in  infancy. 

Jacobus  Bruyn,  b.  December  i,  1753;  m.  Ann  Abeel.  High 
Falls. 

Severyn,  b.  January  1,  1756;  m.  ist,  Maria  Depew ;  m.  2d, 
Nancy  Concklin.     Stone  Ridge. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  521 

Maria,  b.  February  5,  1758;  m.  Cor's  Stilwell.     Stone  Ridge. 

Esther,  b.  January  8,  1760;    m.  Abm.  Sahler.     High  Falls. 

Catharine,  b.  August  12,  1762;  m.  ist,  Patterson;  m.  2d, 
Wigton.     Stone  Ridge. 

Benjamin,  b.  January  8,  1764;  m.  ist,  Catrina  Smedes;  m. 
2d,  Rachel  Hasbrouck.     Kyserike. 

Louis,  b.  February  i,  1767;  m.  Catharine  Decker.  Stone 
Ridge. 

Anna,  b.  June  23,  1769;   d.  in  infancy. 

Children  of  Jacob  Hasbrouck 
The  children  of  Jacob  and  Jannetje  DuBois  were: 

Hester,  b.  May  18,  1752;   m.  Dr.  Geo.  Wurts.     New  Paltz. 
Josiah,  b.  March  5,  1755;   m.  Sarah  Decker.     New  Paltz. 
Lowies,  b.  July  26,  1758;   d.  in  infancy. 
Jacob  J.,  b.  October  25,  1767;  m.  ist,  Margaret  Hardenberg; 
m.  2d,  Ann  DuBois.     New  Paltz. 

The  Children  of  Louis  Bevier,  the  Patentee 
The  children  of  Louis  Bevier  and  Maria  LaBlan  were : 

Maria,  b.  July  19,  1674;    d.  in  infancy. 

Jean,  b.  January  2,  1676;  m.  Cath.  Montanye,  April  14, 
1712.     Wawarsing. 

Abraham,  b.  January  20,  1678;  m.  Rachel  Vernooy,  Febru- 
ary 18,  1707.     Wawarsing. 

Samuel,  b.  January  21,  1680;  m.  Magdalena  Blanjean.  New 
Paltz. 

Andries,  b.  July  12,  1682.     Unmarried. 

Louis,  b.  November  16,  1684;  m.  Elizabeth  Hasbrouck 
(daughter  of  Jean),  May  5,   1713. 


522  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Esther,  b.  November,  1686;  m.  Jacob  Hasbrouck  (son  of 
Jean). 

Solomon,  b.  July  12,  1689;    ^-  'i^  infancy. 

Children  of  Jean  Bevier 

The  children  of  Jean  and  Catharine  Montanye  were : 

Maria,  b.  March  i,  1713;    d.  in  infancy. 

Elenora,  b.  March  23,  1714;  m.  Benj.  Rolscher.    VVawarsing. 

Elizabeth,  b.  February  10,  1717;  m.  Isaac  Bevier  (son  of 
Samuel),    1715.     Wawarsing. 

Johanna,  b.  May  15,  1720;  m.  Michael  Sax,  April  2t,,  1753. 
Wawarsing-. 

Ester,  b.  September  23,  1722;  m.  Solomon  Westbrook,  May 
4,  1748.     Minisink. 

Louis  J.,  b.  October  18,  1724.  Unmarried.  (See  will.) 
Wawarsing. 

Jesse,  b.  May  11,  1729;  m.  Elizabeth  Hoffman.     Wawarsing.. 

Children  of  Abraham  Bevier 
The  children  of  Abraham  and  Rachel  Vernooy  were : 

Louis,  b.  1708;   d.  before  1750.     No  heirs.      (See  will.) 

Anna,  b.  May  17,  1710;   d.  in  infancy. 

Cornelius,  b.  July  20,  1712;  d.  after  1770.  Apparently  un- 
married. 

Samuel,  b.  August  28,  1715;  m.  Sarah  LeFevre  (daughter 
of  Andries),  June  10,  1739.     Wawarsing. 

Jacobus,  b.  September  28,  1717;  m.  Anna  Vernooy.  Febru- 
ary 23,  1757.     Wawarsing. 

Abraham,  b.  January  10,  1720;    d.  aged  18. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  523 

Maria,  b.  January  28,  1722;  m.  Benj.  DuBois,  June  20,  1755. 
New  Paltz. 

Johannes,  b.  April  26,  1724;  m.  ist,  Rachel  LeFevre,  August 
10,  1747;  m.  2d,  Elizabeth  Van  Vliet.  September  18,  1764. 
Wavvarsing. 

Benjamin,  b.  May  7,  1727;  m.  Eliz.  VanKeuren  (daughter 
of  Tjerck),  December  13,  1760.     Wawarsing. 

Daniel. 

Children  of  Samuel  Bevier 

The  children  of  Samuel  Bevier  and  Magdalena  Blanjean 
were : 

Solomon,  b.  May  13,  171 1;    d.  young. 

Abraham  S.,  b.  June  14,  1713;  m.  Margaret  Elting  (daugh- 
ter of  Roelof),  January  22,   1742.  ,  New  Paltz    (Butterville). 

Isaac,  b.  December  25,  1714;  m.  Eliz.  Bevier  (daughter  of 
Jean).     Wawarsing. 

Jacobus,  b.  April  29,  1716;   m.  Antje  Freer.     New  Paltz. 

Margaret,  b.  June  30,  1717;  m.  Matthew  LeFevre,  June  7,. 
1 737.     Bloomingdale. 

Maria,  b.  October  5,  1718;   m.  Abm.  LeFevre.     Wawarsing. 

Louis  S.     Unmarried. 

Esther, b.  January  18,  1721  ;m.  Cornelius  Brink.  Shawangunk. 

Johannes,  b.  September  9,  1722;  m.  Magdalena  LeFevre, 
September  2,  1748.     Shawangunk. 

Philip,  b.  February  9,  1723;  m.  Tryntje  Low,  July  10,  1748. 
Shawangunk. 

Matthew,  b.  June  28,  1712;   d.  young. 

The  only  child  of  Louis  Bevier  and  Elizabeth  Hasbrouck  was  : 

Louis,  b.  April  10.  1717;  m.  Esther  DuBois  (daughter  of 
Philip,  d.  October  7,  1790),  October  24,  1745;  d.  April  29, 
1772.     Marbletown.     They  left  five  children. 


524  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

The  Children  of  Anthoine  Crispel,  the  Patentee 
The  children  of  Anthoine  Crispel  and  Maria  Blanshan  were : 

Maria  Maddaleen,  b.  February  15,  1662;  m.  Matthys  Cor's 
Sleight.     New  Paltz. 

Pieter,  b.  December  21,  1664;  rn-  Neeltje  Gerretsen  (m.  2d 
husband,  Joannes  Schepmoes),  February  18,  1697. 

Lysbet,  b.  October  3,  1666;   d.  in  infancy. 

Lysbet,  b.  October  15,  1668;  m.  Elias  Eijn.     New  Paltz. 

Sara,  b.  June  18,  1671 ;   m.  Huybert  Suyland. 

Jan,  b.  July  24,  1674;   d.  young. 

Children  of  Second  Wife 

Jannetje,  b.  January  4,  1682;   d.  in  infancy. 

Jan,  b.  October  12,  1684;   m.  Geetje  Jans  Roosa. 

Jannetje,  b.  February  7,  1686;  m.  Nic's  Hofifman. 

Children  of  Pieter  Crispel 
The  children  of  Pieter  Crispel  and  Neeltje  Gerretsen  were: 

Antony,  b.  April   17,   1692;    m.  Lea  Roosa,  September  ii, 
Arriantje,  b.  June  31,   1694;    m.  Andries,  March  20,   1712. 

1719. 

Joannes,  b.  October  27,   1695 ;    m.  Anna  Margaret  Roosa, 

December  15,   1725.     Hurley. 

Children  of  Jan  Chrispel 
The  children  of  Jan  Chrispel  and  Geertje  Jans  Roosa  were: 

Marytje,  b.  March  15,  1702;  m.  Jacob  Heermance,  April 
28,  1725. 

Rebecca,  b.  March  17.  1706;    d. 

Antqine,  b.  October  12.  1707;    m.  Catrina  Van  Benthuysen. 


^HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  525 

Helena,  b.  May  7,  1710;  m.  Tennis  Van  Steenberg,  April 
24,  1 73 1.     Kingston. 

Jan,  b.  September  21,  1712;  m.  Sara  Janse,  December  10, 
1736;  m.  2d,  Maria  Dorothea  Kraft,  December  29,  1753. 

Petrus,  b.  January  24,  1727;  m.  Lea  Roosa,  January  14,  1743. 

Rebecca,  b.  April  7,  171 7. 

Zara,  b.  November  26,  1721. 

Children  of  Anthony  Chrispel 

The  children  of  Anthony  Chrispel  (son  of  Peter)  and  Leah 
Roosa  were : 

Petrus,  b.  May  i,  1720;  d.  in  infancy. 

Neeltje,  b.  February  4,  1722;  m.  Dirk  Roosa. 

Petrus,  b.  August  11,  1723;  m.  Leah  Roosa,  January  14,  1743. 

Johannes,  b.  November  8,  1724. 

Cornelius,  b.  September  4,  1726. 

Anna  Margriet,  b.  December  22,  1728. 

Arriantje,  b.  October  8,  1732. 

Wilhelmus,  b.  August  17,  1740. 

Children  of  Johannes  Chrispel 

The  children  of  Johannes  (son  of  Peter)  and  Anna  Margaret 
Roosa  were : 

Petrus,  b.  November  26,  1727;   d.  young. 
Aldert,  b.  November  10,  1728:    d.  young. 
Rachel,  b.  October  i,  1732. 
Arriantje,  b.  August  25,  1734. 
Petrus,  b.  September  19,  1736. 
Elizabeth,  b.  September  24,  1738. 
Lea,  b.  December  14,  1740. 
Allert,  b.  February  13,  1743. 
Johannes,  b.  April  21.  1745 


526  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Children  of  Antoine  Chrispel 

The  children  of  Antoine   (son  of  Jan)   and  Catharine  Van 
Benthuysen  were : 

Lidia,  b.  April  28,  1734. 
Geertje,  b.  October  3,  1736. 
Jan,  b.  May  28,  1738. 
Rebekka,  b.  October  12,  1740. 
Maria,  b.  October  10,  1742. 

Children  of  Jan  Chrispel 

Jan  married  ist,  Sarah  Janse;    2d,  Maria  Dorothea  Kraft. 
The  children  were : 

FIRST    WIFE 

Mayke,  b.  August  27,  1738. 
Jan,  b.  August  16,  1741. 
Thomas,  b.  January  22,  1744. 
Hendricus,  b.  June  21,  1745. 
Thomas,  b.  May  8,  1748. 

SECOND  WIFE 

Matthens,  b.  December  i,  1754. 

Sara,  b.  July  15,  1759. 

Matthens,  EUsa  [twins],  b.  November  17,  1761. 

David,  b.  November  26,  1763. 

Solomon,  b.  November  24,  1764. 

Children  of  Petrus  Chrispel 

The  children  of  Petrus  and  Lea  Roosa  were : 

Petrus,  b.  October  9,  1743. 
Benjamin,  b.  January  13,  1745. 


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HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  527 

Anthony,  b.  July  20,  1746. 
Abraham,  b.  March  5,  1749. 
Maria,  b.  February  24,  1751. 
Rachel,  b.  April  i,  1753. 
Rachel,  b.  October  13,  1754. 
Jacob,  b.  June  6,  1762. 

The  Children  of  Hugo  Frere,  the  Patentee 

Hugo  Frere  married  ist,  Mary  Haye;  2d,  Jannetje  Wibau. 
The  children  were : 

Hugo,  ;    m.  Mary  Ann  Leroy,  June  7,   1690.     New 

Paltz. 

Abraham,  ;    m.  Aagien  Tietsorte,  April  28,  1694. 

Isaac,  b.  1672 ;  d.  August  9,  1690. 

Jacob,  b.  June  9,  1679;  m.  Antje  Van  Weyen,  September, 
1705.     Bontecoe. 

Jean,  b.  April  16,  1682 ;  m.  Rebecca  Wagener.     Kingston. 

Mary, ;  m.  Lewis  Veille.     Schenectady. 

Sarah, ;  m.  Teunis  Clausen  Van  Volgen.  Schenectady. 

Children  of  Hugo  Frere 
The  children  of  Hugo  Frere  and  Mary  Ann  Leroy  were : 

Hugo,  Jr.,  b.  October  14,  1691.     Bontecoe. 
Isaac,  b.  May  21,  1693.     New  Paltz. 
Mary,  b.  May  31,  1696. 
Sarah,  b.  May  15,  1698. 
Esther,  b.  October  15,  1699. 
Benjamin,  b.  October  20,  1706. 
Rachel,  b.  November  10.  1710. 
Jannette,  b.  January  25,  1713. 
Elizabeth,  b.  May  25,  1718. 


528  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ. 

Children  of  Abraham  Freer 

The    children    of    Abraham    Freer    and    Aagieii    Tietsorte 
were : 

Maehje,  b.  May  5,  1606.     New  Paltz. 
Abraham,  b.  October  31,  1697..    Kingston. 
Solomon,  b.  October  23,  1698;    m.  Klaartje  Westvall,  Sep- 
tember 22,  1721.     Minnesink. 
Willem,  b.  January  14,  1700. 
Jelena,  b.  January  16,  1704. 
PhilHpus,  b.  August  16,  1706. 
Sara,  b.  October  12,  1707. 
Naritje,  b.  September  11,  1709. 
Jacomyntje,  b.  November  4,  171 1. 
Aagien,  b.  April  11,  1714. 
Johanna,  b.  November  13,  171 5. 
Catryntjen,  b.  January  11,  1719. 

Children  of  Jacob  Frere 

The    children    of    Jacob    Frere    and    Antje    Van    Weyen: 
were : 

Jannetje,  b.  October  20,  1706. 
Sarajte,  b.  September  11,  1709. 
Abraham,  Isaac  [twins],  b.  February  27,  171 5. 
Jacob,  b.  January  27,  171 7. 
Maritje,  Annatje  [twins],  b.  January  3,  1720. 
Ant j  en,  b.  April  2,  1721. 
Jacob,  b.  September  i,  1723. 
•     Daniel,  b.  January  2,  1726. 
Cornelis,  b.  June  29,  172c. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ  529 

The  Children  of  Simon  LeFevre,  the  Patentee 

Simon  LeFevre  married  Elizabeth  Deyo  (whose  second  hus- 
band was  Moses  Cantain).  He  died  about  1690.  The  children 
were : 

Andries,  ;  m.  Cornelia  Blanjean.  New  Paltz  (Vil- 
lage.) 

Abraham,  b.  May  11,  1679;   died  before  his  father. 

Isaac,  b.  August  5,  1683 ;  m.  Maritje  Freer,  May  16,  1718. 
New  Paltz  (Bontecoe). 

Jan,  b.  October  28,  1685;  m.  Catharine  Blanjean,  November 
20,  1 712.     New  Paltz  (Plains). 

Maritje,  b.  October  15,  1689;  m.  Daniel  DuBois,  June  18, 
1713.     New  Paltz  (Village). 

Children  of  Andries  LeFevre 
The  children  of  Andries  and  Cornelia  Blanjean  were: 

Simon,  b.  September  11,  1709;  m.  Pieternella  Hasbrouck, 
June  24,  1725.     New  Paltz  (Village). 

Matthens,  b.  April  10,  1710;  m.  Margaret  Bevier,  June  17, 
1737.     Rosendale  (Bloomingdale). 

Elizabeth,  b.  September  8,  1712;  m.  Jonathan  DuBois  (son 
of  Louis),  December  23,  1732.     Nescatack. 

Margaret,  b.  March  13,  1715 ;  m.  Conraed  Vernooy,  June  10, 
1739.     Wawarsing. 

Zara,  b.  February  3,  1717;  m.  Samuel  Bevier,  June  10,  1739. 

Maritje,  b.  March  i,  1719;  m.  Nathaniel  LeFevre.  New 
Paltz  (Plains). 

Catarina,  b.  April  2,  1721 ;    m.  Simon  DuBois.     New  Paltz 
(Village). 
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530  HISTORY  OF  NEW  PALTZ 

Magdalena,  b.  October  ii,  1724;  m.  Johannis  Bevier,  Sep- 
tember 2,  1749.     Shawangunk. 

Benjamin. 

Rachel,  b.  June  23,  1728;  m.  Jobs  Bevier,  September  2,  1749. 
Wawarsing, 

Children  of  Isaac  LeFevre 

Isaac  LeFevre  married  Maritje  Frere.     The  children  were: 

Isaac,  b.  December  14,  17 18;   died  unmarried. 

Peter,  b.  February  19,  1721 ;  m.  Elizabeth  Vernooy,  Janu- 
ary 2,  1760.     New  Paltz  (Bontecoe). 

Johannes,  b.  November  18,  1722;  m.  Sarah  Vernooy,  May 
29,  1752.     New  Paltz  (Bontecoe). 

Daniel,  b.  November  8,  1725;  m.  Catharine  Cantine.  New 
Paltz  (Bontecoe). 

Simon,  b.  November  10,  1728;  died  young. 

Mary,  b.  March  20,  1732;  m.  Johannes  Hardenberg,  Jr. 
Swartekill. 

Simon,  b.  December  17,  1738;   died  young. 

Children  of  Jan  LeFevre 
The  children  of  Jan  LeFevre  and  Catharine  Blanshan  were : 

Margaret,  b.  December  20,  1713;    d.  young. 

Abraham,  b.  March  25,  1716;  m.  Maria  Bevier.  New  Paltz 
(Kettleborough). 

Elizabeth,  b.  October  2,  171 7. 

Nathaniel,  b.  November  2,  1718;  m.  jMaritje  LeFevre.  New 
Paltz  (Plains). 

Andries  J.,  b.  March  18,  1722;  m.  Rachel  DuBois  (daughter 
of  Nathaniel),  October  20,  1745.     New  Paltz  (Kettleborough). 

Margaret,  b.  February  9,  1724;  m.  ist,  Jacob  Hofifman ;  m. 
2d,  Abm.  Richards.     Shawangunk. 


INDEX 


PAGE 

Abeel,  Ann,  wife  of  Jacobus  Bruyn  Hasbrouck 406 

Achtnioemy   (Auchmoody),  Christian  96 

Adriance,  Lieut.  Cornelius  325 

Aertson,  Garret,  son  of  Aert  Jacobson 482 

Aertson,  Jacob,  son  of  Aert  Jacobson 482 

Akker,   David    gg 

Anable,  Margaret,  2d  wife  of  John  Bevier 246 

Andrevelt,  Charity,  wife  of  Louis  Du  Bois  3d 317 

Allen,  Louise  Seymour,  wife  of  Louis  Hasbrouck 386 

Andros,  Gov.  Edmund ii,  12,  14,  368,  481 

Arnold,  Gen.  Benedict  326 

Auchmoody,  Abraham,  son  of  Christian 451 

Auchmoody,  Christian,  son  of  James id,  451 

Auchmoody,  David,  son  of  James 95,  loi 

Auchmoody,  David,  son  of  James,  soldier  in  Revolution 451 

m.   Maria  De  Graff 451 

Auchmoody,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  James 451 

Auchmoody,  Jacobus,  son  of  James 451 

m.  I,  Elizabeth  Smith;   2,  Margaret  Irwin 452 

Auchmoody,  James,  m.  Mary  Deyo 259,  451,  516 

Auchmoody,  Jonathan,  son  of  Abraham 452 

Auchmoody,  Maria,  da.  of  James 451 

Auchmoody,  Rachel,  da.  of  James,  wife  of  Samuel  Bevier.  .246,  247,  451 

Auchmoody,  William,  son  of  Jacobus 452 

Austin,  Lieut.  Aaron   328 

resigns 329 

Bakeman   (Beekman),  Martinus   96 

Banks,  Catharine,  da.  of  Justus,  wife  of  Louis  Hasbrouck 385 

Banks,  Justus 385 

Barbaric,  Frances,  da.  of  Peter 501 

Barbour.  John 316 

Barnes.  Matilda,  wife  of  Isaac  S.  Hasbrouck 406 

Barnes,  Nancy,  wife  of  Henry  C.  Hasbrouck 406 

Barnhart,  Peter,  m.  Eliza  Hasbrouck 403 

Barnhart,  Mrs.  Peter,  da.  of  Dr.  Cornelius  Hasbrouck 306 

Basten,  G.  W.,  son  of  George,  m.  Esther  Gumaer  Bevier 251 

Battle,  Clara,  wife  of  John  George  de  Ranke 500 

Beatty,  John,  Royal  Com.  Gen.  of  Prisoners 335 

Beatty, ,  Lieut.  4th  Penna.  Line 342 

Beaver.  R.  V.  N 361 

Becker.  Alfred  LeRoy 356 

Bedford,  Jacob,  m.  Magdalen  Van  Wagenen 480 

Beekman.  Dr.  Gerardus  470 

Beekman,  Col.  Henricus  282 


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PAGE 

Beem,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Hendricus  Deyo  2d 276,  517 

Beesmer,  Annie,  wife  of  John  W.  Deyo. '  277 

Belknap,  2d,  Mr.  Isaac •. 327 

Bell,  Rachel,  wife  of  Lewis  LeFevre 430 

Bessimer,  Dorothy,  2d  wife  of  Abram  Elting 494 

Betts,  Lieut.  James  331,  342 

Bevier,  Abagail,  da.  of  Abraham,  wife  of  David  McKinstry 240 

Bevier,  Abram  i.  75 

Bevier,  Abraham,  soldier  in  1715 117 

Bevier,  Abraham,  son  of  Abraham 98,  235,  522 

Bevier,  Abraham,  son  of  Abraham  A 246 

Bevier,  Abraham,  son  of  Jacob,  m.  i,  Margaret  LeFevre;   2,  Aba- 
gail Vanderbilt,;  3,  widow  Sarah  Vernooy 236-7,  239 

Bevier,  Abraham,  son  of  Louis  ist,  m.  Rachel  Vernooy 

226,  233,  235,  521 

Bevier,  Abraham,  son  of  Mathew 239 

Bevier,  Abraham,  son  of  Samuel,  son  of  Louis  ist,  m.  Margaret 

Elting 98,  230,  243,  244,  484,  523 

Bevier,  Abraham,  Jun.,  son  of  Samuel,  m.  Maria  DuBois.  .236,  239,  318 

Bevier,  Abraham  A 229 

Bevier,  Abraham  A.,  son  of  Abraham,  m.  Maria  Freer 244 

Bevier,  Abraham  A.,  son  of  Andries,  m.  Ann  Perrine 238 

Bevier,  Abraham  Bourbon,  son  of  David 250 

Bevier,  Abraham  J.,  son  of  Capt.  Andries 229 

Bevier,  Abraham  J.,  son  of  Johannes,  m.  Jenneke  Vernooy 238,  242 

Bevier,  Abraham  Solomon,  son  of  Solomon 245 

Bevier,  A.  Deyo 268 

Bevier,  Alexander,  son  of  Jacob  J 241 

Bevier,  A.  L.  R 230 

Bevier,  Andre,  son  of  Louis : 226,  233,  411,  521 

Bevier,  Andries,  son  of  Abraham,  m.  Mary  Deyo 239 

Bevier,  Andries,  son  of  Samuel,  m.  Jacomyntje  DuBois 236,  238 

Bevier,  Andries  of  Wawarsing,  m.  Jacomintje  DuBois 310 

Bevier,  Capt.  Andries  227 

great-great-grandson  of  Louis  the  Patentee,  great-grand- 
son of  Abraham   229 

Bevier,  Andries  LeFevre 237 

Bevier,  Andrew  268 

Bevier,  Andrew,  son  Simon,  m.  Martha  J.  Shaver 241 

Bevier,  Ann,  da.  of  Benjamin 243 

Bevier,  Anna,  da.  of  Abraham,  dies  young 235,  522 

Bevier,  Anne.  da.  of  Jacob,  wife  of  John  DuBois 237 

Bevier,  Ann  Elizabeth,  da.  of  John,  wife  of  DeWitt  Depuy 235 

Bevier,  Antje,  da.  of  EHas 243 

Bevier,  Antje,  da.  of  Jacobus,  wife  of  Benjamin  Hasbrouck 246 

Bevier,  Antje,  da.  of  Samuel 247 

Bevier,  Benjamin 230 

Bevier,  Benjamin,  son  of  Abraham,  m.  Elizabeth  Van  Keuren.  ..  . 

■  •  • 236,  238,  523 

Bevier,  Benjamin,  son  of  Benjamin,  m.  Leah  Roosa 238,  242 

Bevier,  Dr.  Benjamin  R 229 

Bevier.  Dr.  Benjamin  Rush,  son  of  Dr.  Benjamin  R 229 

Bevier,  Benjamin  Rosa,  son  of  Conrad,  m.  Catharine  Ten  Eyck.  ..     240 

Bevier,  Blandina,  da.  of  Jesse,  wife  of  William  Bodley 234 

Bevier,  Blandina,  da.  of  Louis 251 


INDEX  533 

PAGE 

Bevier,  Catharine,  da.  of  David,  wife  of  Stephen  Stilhvell 250 

Bevier,  Catherine,  da.  of  Jacob,  wife  of  Peter  Jansen 237 

Bevier,  Catharine,  da.  of  Jacob,  wife  of  Luther  Sawtell 247 

Bevier,  Catharine,  da.  of  Jacob  J 241 

Bevier,  Catharine,  da.  of  Jesse,  wife  of  Benjamin  Depuy 234 

Bevier,  Catharine,  da.  of  Joseph 252 

Bevier,  Catharine,  da.  of  Louis,  wife  of  Oliver  G.  DuBois 251 

Bevier,  Catharine,  da.  of  PhiHp 245 

Bevier,  Catharine,  2d  wife  of  Mathusalem  DuBois 312 

Bevier,  Catrintje,  da.  of  Petrus 249 

Bevier,  Caty,  da.  of  John 235 

Bevier,  Caty,  da.  of  Solomon 246 

Bevier,  Charity,  da.  of  Solomon 246 

Bevier,  Charles,  son  of  David 233,  235 

Bevier,  Christian,  son  of  Samuel,  m.  Magdalena  Freer 247 

Bevier,  Conrad,  bro.  of  Capt.  Andries 229 

Bevier,  Conrad,  son  of  Cornelius,  m.  Sarah  Vernooy 240 

Bevier,  Conrad,  son  of  Johannes,  m.  Elizabeth  Roosa 237,  240 

Bevier,  Cornelia,  da.  of  Abraham 240 

Bevier,  Cornelia,  da.  of  Johannes,  wife  of  Petrus  Bevier.  ..237,  245,  249 

Bevier,  Cornelia,  da.  of  Johannes,  wife  of  Noah  LeFevre 245 

Bevier,  Cornelia,  da.  of  Samuel,  wife  of,  i,  Mathew  Newkirk;    2, 

Peter  Bevier  236 

Bevier,  Cornelia,  wife  of  Noah  LeFevre 431 

Bevier,  Cornelius  229 

Bevier,  Cornelius,  son  of  Abraham 235,  524 

Bevier,  Cornelius,  son  of  Andries,  m.  Susan  Nottingham 238 

Bevier,  Cornelius,  son  of  Capt.  Andries 227 

Bevier,  Cornelius,  son  of  Jacob  J 241 

Bevier,  Cornelius,  son  of  Johannes,  m.  i,  Sarah  Bevier;  2,  Cornelia 

Vernooy   237,  240 

Bevier,  Cornelius,  son  of  Mathew 239 

Bevier,  Cornelius,  son  of  Samuel 247 

Bevier,  Daniel,  son  of  Abraham 236.  523 

Bevier,  David,  son  of  Andrew 268 

Bevier,  David,  son  of  Jacob  J 241 

Bevier,  David,  son  of  Johannes,  m.  Sarah  Bevier 238,  239,  242 

Bevier,  David,  son  of  Jesse,  m.  Sally  Gier .234,  235 

Bevier,  David,  son  of  Joseph 233 

m.  Deborah  Lockwood  252 

Bevier,  David,  son  of  Louis  3d,  Adjt.  Pawling's  Regiment 232 

m.  Maria  Hasbrouck  249,  250 

Bevier,  David,  m.  Polly  Elting 497 

Bevier,  Dr.  Dubois 268 

Bevier,  Eleanor,  da.  of  Joseph,  2d  wife  of  Russell  Holmes 252 

Bevier.  Elenora,  da.  of  Jean,  wife  of  Benj.  Rolscher 234.  522 

Bevier,  Elias,  son  of  Jacobus,  m.  Sarah  LeFevre 247,  248 

Bevier,  Elias,  son  of  Philip 245 

Bevier,  Elias,  m.  LeFevre 438 

Bevier,  Elijah,  son  of  Simon,  m.  Elizabeth  Bevier 241 

Bevier,  Eliza,  da.  of  Isaac 244 

Bevier,  Eliza,  da.  of  Samuel 247 

Bevier,  Elizabeth   da.  of  Abraham,  wife  of  Samuel  Bevier 233,  239 

Bevier,  Elizabeth",  da.  of  Abraham  J.,  wife  of,  i,  Moses  Bevier;   2, 

Charles  Shultz   242 


534  INDEX 

PAGE 

Bevier,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Benjamin,  wife  of  Luke  Dewitt 242 

Bevier,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Elias 248 

Bevier,  Ehzabeth,  da.  of  Jacob 237 

Bevier,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Jean,  wife  of  Isaac  Bevier,  killed  by  In- 
dians in  Revolution  227,  234,  243,  244,  522 

Bevier,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Louis,  wife  of  Joseph  Hasbrouck 250 

Bevier,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Louis,  wife  of  Peter  Van  Dyck 252 

Bevier,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Philip  D.  B 251 

Bevier,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Samuel,  wife  of  Arthur  Morris 236 

Bevier,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Elijah  Bevier 241 

Bevier,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Joseph  Bevier 383 

Bevier,  Elizabeth  L.,  wife  of  Henry  Deyo 277 

Bevier,  Elizabeth  Hoffman,  da.  of  David 235 

Bevier,  Elizabeth  Lynot,  da.  of  Nathaniel,  wife  of  Henry  Deyo.  . .  .  248 

Bevier,  Esther,  da.  of  Abraham 244 

Bevier,  Esther,  da.  of  David 250 

Bevier,  Esther,  da.  of  Jean,  wife  of  Solomon  We.stbrook 234,  522 

Bevier,  Esther,  da.  of  Louis 39,  250 

wife  of  Jacob  Hasbrouck 227,  233,  400,  522 

Bevier,  Esther,  da.  of  Philip  D.  B.,  wife  of  Philip  Hasbrouck 250 

Bevier,  Esther,  da.  of  Samuel,  wife  of  Cornelius  L.  Brink 243,  523 

Bevier,  Esther  Gumaer,  da.  of  Louis,  wife  of  G.  W.  Basten 251 

Bevier,  Ezekiel,  son  of  Jacob,  m.  Helen  Van  Bumble 243 

Bevier,  Hasbrouck,  son  of  David 233 

Bevier,  Henrietta  Cornelia,  da.  of  Philip  D.  B.,  wife  of  James  Has- 
brouck   251 

Bevier,  Henry,  son  of  Jacob 243 

Bevier,  Hilletje,  da.  of  Philip  D.  B 250 

Bevier,  Hylah,  da.  of  Philip  D.  B.,  wife  of  Levi  Hasbrouck 251 

Bevier,  Isaac,  son  of  Abraham  A 246 

Bevier,  Isaac,  son  of  Jacob,  m.  Mary  York 247 

Bevier,  Isaac,  son  of  Jean 234 

Bevier,  Isaac,  son  of  Samuel 230 

m.  cousin,  Elizabeth  Bevier  227,  243,  523 

Bevier,  Jacob,  son  of  Abraham,  m.  Anna  Vernooy 235,  236,  522 

Bevier,  Jacob,  son  of  Jacobus,  dies  young 246 

Bevier,  Jacob  2d,  son  of  Jacobus,  m.  Maria  York 246,  247 

Bevier,  Jacob  Hornbeck,  son  of  Abraham  J.,  m.  Sarah  Devine 242 

Bevier,  Jacob  J.,  son  of  Johannes,  m.  Margaret  DeWitt 237,  241 

Bevier,  Jacobus,  son  of  Samuel,  son  of  Louis  ist 98 

Bevier,  Jacobus,  son  of  Jacob,  m.  Mary  Yandel 247 

Bevier,  Jacobus,  son  of  Samuel 230,  247 

m.  Antje  Freer 243 

Bevier,  Jacobus,  elected  constable  of  New  Paltz 300 

Bevier,  Jacomyntje,  da.  of  Abram  S.,  wife  of  Mathew  Bevier.  .  .236,  244 

Bevier,  Jan,  soldier  in  171 5 117 

Bevier,  Jane,  da.  of  Conrad,  wife  of  Moses  C.  Depuy 240 

Bevier,  Jane,  da.  of  Louis,  wife  of  Edgar  Hasbrouck 251 

Bevier,  Jane  Newkirk,  da.  of  Jonas,  wife  of  Annanius  Winfield..  .  249 

Bevier,  Jane  Vernooy,  da.  of  Nathaniel,  wife  of  Abraham  Elting.  .  248 

Bevier.  Jannet.,  da.  of  Andries 238 

Bevier,  Jannetje,  da.  of  Benjamin,  wife  of  Jophat  Hoornbeck 242 

Bevier,  Jannetje,  da.  of  Jacobus,  wife  of  John  York 247 

Bevier,  Jean,  son  of  Louis  ist.  m.  Catharine  Montanye 

226,  233,  234,  522 


■         INDEX  535 

PAGE 

Bevier,  Jenneke,  da.  of  Abraham  J.,  wife  of  John  A.  Snyder 24^ 

Bevier,  Jennike,  da.  of  Ehas 248 

Bevier,  Jenneke,  da.  of  Jacob 236 

Bevier,  Jeremiah,  son  of  Jacob,  m.  Wyntje  Smith 248 

Bevier,  Jesse,  son  of  Jean,  m.  Elizabeth  Hoffman 234,  522 

Bevier,  Johanna,  da.  of  Jean,  wife  of  Michael  Sax,  killed  by 

Indians  in  Revolution  227,  234,  522 

Bevier,  Johannes,  son  of  Abraham,  m.  i,  Rachel  LeFevre;  2,  Eliza- 
beth Gonzalez  Van  Vliet 235,  523 

Bevier,  Johannes  of  Wawarsing,  son  of  Abraham,  m.  i,  Rachel 

LeFevre   417 

2,  Cornelia  Vernooy  237 

Bevier,  Johannes,  son  of  Cornelius  229 

Bevier,  Johannes,  son  of  Cornelius,  m.  Elizabeth  Tearhout 240 

Bevier,  Johannes,  son  of  Daniel 242 

Bevier,  Johannes,  son  of  Jean,  dies  young 234 

Bevier,  Johannes,  son  of  Samuel 230 

m.  Magdalen  LeFevre  243,  523 

Bevier,  Johannes  Dewitt,  son  of  Jacob  J 241 

Bevier,  Johannes  Dewitt,  son  of  Jonas 249 

Bevier,  Rev.  Johannes  Hornbeck 229 

Bevier,  Johan  Vernooy,  son  of  Elias 248 

Bevier,  John  i 

Bevier,  John,  son  of  Jesse,  m.  Martha  Green 234,  235 

Bevier,  John,  son  of  Solomon,  m.  i,  Hannah  Smith;    2,  Margaret 

Anable  246 

Bevier,  John  Hardenbergh 230 

Bevier,  Jonas,  son  of  Johannes,  m.  Maria  Dewitt 245,  249 

Bevier,  Jonathan,  son  of  Abraham 239 

Bevier,  Jonathan,  son  of  Jacob,  m.  Judith  Low 243 

Bevier,  Jonathan,  son  of  Johannes 245 

Bevier,  Jonathan,  son  of  Jonas,  m.  Hanna  LeFevre 249 

Bevier,  Joseph,  son  of  David,  son  of  Joseph 233 

Bevier,  Joseph,  son  of  David,  m.  Catharine  Hasbrouck 250,  252 

Bevier,  Joseph,  son  of  David   son  of  Louis  3d 232 

Bevier,   Josiah,    son   of   Andries,   m.    i,    Hannah   Brinkerhoflf;    2, 

Leah  Bevier  238-9.  240 

Bevier,  Josiah,  son  of  Isaac 244 

Bevier,  Josiah,  son  of  Samuel. 247 

Bevier,  Katrintje,  da.  of  Abraham,  wife  of  Mathusalem  DuBois...     244 

Bevier,  Katrintje,  da.  of  Isaac,  wife  of  Abraham  Jansen 244 

Bevier,  Leah,  da.  of  Conrad,  2d  wife  of  Josiah  Bevier 239,  240 

Bevier,  Leah,  da.  of  Jacob  J 241 

Bevier,  Lea.  da.  of  Jesse,  wife  of  Wm.  W.  DeWitt 234 

Bevier,  Leah  Dewitt,  da.  of  Jonas 249 

Bevier,  Lena,  da.  of  Abraham,  wife  of  Simon  Muller 240 

Bevier,  Levi,  son  of  Benjamin 242 

Bevier,  Lewis  100 

Bevier,  Lewis,  Ensign  New  Paltz  Foot  Company 117,  368 

Bevier,  Ensign  Lewis,  Jun.,  of  New  Paltz  Company  1717 118 

Bevier,  Lewis,  son  of  Andries,  m.  Garretje  Van  Keuren 238 

Bevier,  Lewis,  son  of  Benjamin,  m.  Gertrude  Smeedes 243 

Bevier.  Louis,  the  Patentee. .  .33,  52,  62,  89,  91.  92,  106,  309,  ^(^2,  383.  485 

m.  Marie  LeBlanc  225,  233,  509 

Bevier.  Louis,  m.  Elizabeth  Hasbrouck 400 


536 


INDEX 


Bevier,  Louis,  Jun.,  and  Rachel  Hasbroiick  married 42 

Bevier,  Louis,  son  of  David 232 

m.  Maria  Eltinge  233,  250,  251 

Bevier,  Louis  J.,  son  of  Jean 234 

Bevier,  Louis,  2d,  son  of  Louis  the  Patentee, 75 

baptized    38 

m.  Elizabeth  Hasbrouck 226,  233,  249 

Bevier,  Louis,  son  of  Louis 250 

Bevier,  Louis,  3d.  son  of  Louis  2d,  m.  Esther  DuBois 

: ; 230,  232,  249,  293.  523 

Bevier,  Louis,  son  of  Louis,  m.  Catharine  Van  Dyck 251-2 

Bevier,  Louis,  Jun 233,  294 

Bevier,  Louis  Du  Bois,  son  of  Philip  D.  B.,  m.  Charity  Hornbeck.  .     251 

Bevier,  Dr.  Louis  D.  B.,  son  of  Col.  Philip 232 

Bevier,  Louis  S.,  son  of  Samuel 243 

Bevier,  Lucas,  son  of  Conrad 240 

Bevier,  Lydia,  da.  of  Elias 248 

Bevier,  Lydia,  da.  of  Samuel 247 

Bevier.  Magdalen,  da.  of  Abraham,  wife  of  Mathew  Decker 244 

Bevier,  Magdalen,  da.  of  Elias 248 

Bevier,  Magdalena,  da.  of  Isaac 244 

Bevier.  Magdalena,  da.  of  Jacobus,  wife  of  Jonas  Freer 246 

Bevier,  Magdalena,  da.  of  Johannes,  wife  of  Jan  Hoffman 245 

Bevier,  Magdalen,  da.  of  Jonas 249 

Bevier,  Magdalen,  da.  of  Nathaniel,  wife  of  Charles  Elting 243 

Bevier,  Magdalen,  da.  of  Philip,  wife  of  Abraham  Du  Bois 245 

Bevier,  Magdalena,  da.  of  Simon 241 

Bevier,  Magdalen  Du  Bois,  da.  of  Louis,  wife  of  Willet  S.  Northrop    251 

Bevier,  Margaret,  da.  of  Mathew 239 

Bevier,  Margaret,  da.  of  Samuel,  wife  of  Mathew  LeFevre 243,  523 

Bevier,  Margaret,  da.  of  Simon,  wife  of  Andries  Dewitt 241 

Bevier.  Margrietje,  da.  of  Solomon 246 

Bevier,  Maria,  da.  of  Abraham,  wife  of  Benjamin  DuBois 235 

Bevier,  Maria,  da.  of  Abraham,  wife  of  Benjamin  DuBois 523 

Bevier,  Maria,  da.  of  Abraham,  wife  of  Isaac  Hasbrouck 244 

Bevier,  Maria,  da.  of  Abraham,  wife  of  Andries  I.  LeFevre 239 

Bevier,  Maria,  da.  of  Benjamin 243 

Bevier,  Maria,  da.  of  Benjamin,  ist  wife  of  Simon  Bevier.  .237,  238,  241 

Bevier.  Maria,  da.  of  Conrad,  wife  of  Simon  Bevier 240 

Bevier,  Maria,  da.  of  Daniel 242 

Bevier,  Maria,  da.  of  Elias,  wife  of  Gerrit  Newkirk 248 

Bevier.  Maria,  da.  of  Jacob,  wife  of  Ambrose  Mitchell 247 

Bevier,  Maria,  da.  of  Jacobus,  2d  wife  of  Benjamin  Hasbrouck.  . .  .     247 

Bevier.  Maria,  da.  of  Johannes,  wife  of  John  L.  Hardenberg 237 

Bevier.  Maria,  da.  of  Louis  ist,  dies  young 226,  233 

Bevier.  Maria,  da.  of  Louis,  wife  of  Cornelius  L.  Van  Dyck 251 

Bevier.  Maria,  da.  of  Samuel 247 

wife  of  Abraham  LeFevre 243,  430,  523 

Bevier,  Maria,  da.  of  Samuel,  wife  of  Cornelius  G.  Vernooy 236 

Bevier.  Maria,  da.  of  Simon,  wife  of  Stephen  Dewitt 241 

Bevier.  Maria,  da.  of  Solomon 246 

Bevier,  Maria,  wife  of  Benjamin  DuBois 299 

Bevier,  Maria  Ann,  da.  of  Philip  D.  B.,  wife  of  Cornelius  C.  Elting  251 
Bevier,  Maria  Vernooy,  da.  of  Abraham  J.,  wife  of  Daniel  Elmore.  242 
Bevier,  Marie,  da.  of  Jean,  dies  young 234.  522 


INDEX  537 


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Bevier,  Marjrietje,  da.  of  Abraham 240 

Bevier,  Marjitje,  da.  of  Andries 238 

Bevier,  Mary,  wife  of  Benjamin  Hasbrouck 372 

Bevier,  Mary,  wife  of  Isaiah  Hasbrouck 371 

Bevier,  Mary  Ann,  da.  of  Joseph,  ist  wife  of  Russell  Holmes.  .     252 

Bevier,  Mary  White,  da.  of  David 235 

Bevier,  Dr.  Mathew 229 

Bevier,  Mathew,  son  of  Conrad,  m.  Cornelia  Hardenbergh 240 

Bevier,  Mathew,  son  of  Jacob  J 241 

Bevier,  Mathew,  son  of  Jacobus 246 

Bevier,  Matheus,  son  of  Petrus 249 

Bevier,  Mathew,  son  of  Samuel 243,  523 

Bevier,  Mathew,  son  of  Samuel,  m.  Jacomyntje  Bevier 236,  239,  244 

Bevier,  Moses,  son  of  Benjamin,  m.  Ehzabeth  Bevier 242 

Bevier,  Nathan,  son  of  Abraham  J.,  m.  Sarah  Brannen 242 

Bevier,  Nathaniel,  son  of  Jacob  J 241 

Bevier,  Nathaniel,  son  of  Johannes,  m.  Catharine  Dewitt 245,  248 

Bevier,  Nathaniel,  son  of  Jonas 249 

Bevier,  Nathaniel  DuBois,  son  of  Abraham 239 

Bevier,  Neeltje,  da.  of  Jonas,  wife  of  Silas  Winfield 249 

Bevier,  Nelly,  da.  of  Solomon 246 

Bevier,  Noah,  son  of  Solomon 246 

Bevier,  Orville  D .     230 

Bevier,  Peter 265 

Bevier,  Peter,  son  of  Simon,  m.  Elizabeth  Terwilliger 241 

Bevier,  Peter,  m.  Cornelia  Bevier,  da.  of  Samuel,  widow  of  Mathew 

Newkirk 236 

Bevier,  Petrus,  son  of  Philip,  m.  Cornelia  Bevier 237,  245,  249 

Bevier,  Petrus  LeFevre,  son  of  Elias 243 

Bevier,  Philip,  son  of  David 250 

Bevier,  Philip,  son  of  Louis  3d.  Col.  in  Revolution 232 

Bevier,  Philip,  son  of  Samuel 230 

m.  Tryntje  Low 243,  245,  523 

Bevier,  Philip  D.  B..  son  of  Louis,  m.  Ann  Dewitt 250 

Bevier,  Capt.  Phil.  D.  B 328.  331.  342 

Bevier,  Philippus,  son  of  Petrus 249 

Bevier.  Rachel,  da.  of  Abraham 239 

Bevier,  Rachel,  da.  of  Capt.  Andries,  wife  of  Henry  J.  Brinkerhoff 

229.  239 

Bevier,  Rachel,  da.  of  Jacob 2^7 

Bevier,  Rachel,  da.  of  Petrus 249 

Bevier.  Rachel,  da.  of  Philip  D.  B..  wife  of  Thomas  R.  Harden- 

burgh 250-1 

Bevier,  Rachel,  da.  of  Samuel,  wife  of  Johannes  A.  DeWitt 2t,6 

Bevier,  Rachel,  da.  of  Simon,  wife  of  Peter  Cantine 241 

Bevier,  Reuben,  son  of  Elias 248 

Bevier,  Richard 268 

Bevier,  Richard  Broadhead,  son  of  Jacob  J 229.  241 

Bevier,  Roelif.  son  of  Solomon 245 

Bevier,  Roelif  Elting,  son  of  Abraham 244,  246 

Bevier,  Samuel 7.S,  92.  106,  299.  309 

Bevier,  Samuel,  soldier  in  1715 117 

Bevier,  Samuel,  soldier  Ulster  County  Militia  1738 118 

Bevier.  Samuel,  son  of  Abraham 239 

m.  Magdalen  Blanjear  523 


538  INDEX 

PAGE 

Bevier,  Samuel,  son  of  Abraham,  m.  Sarah  LeFevre. .  .235,  236,  417,  522 

Bevier,  Samuel,  son  of  Andries,  m.  Elizabeth  Bevier 238,  239 

Bevier,  Samuel,  son  of  Elias 248 

Bevier,  Samuel,  son  of  Jacobus,  m.  Rachel  Auchmoody 246,  247 

Bevier.  Samuel,  son  of  Louis  ist,  m.  Magdalena  Blanshan.  .226,  233,  243 

Bevier,  Samuel,  son  of  Mathew 239 

Bevier,  Samuel,  son  of  Simon,  m.  Maria  Van  Wagenen 241 

Bevier,  Sarah,  da.  of  Abraham,  wife  of  Johannes  Freer,  Jun.  .  .  .     361 

Bevier,  Sarah,  da.  of  Abraham,  wife  of  Petrus  Hasbrouck 244.  2>73 

Bevier,  Sarah,  da.  of  Abraham,  Jun..  wife  of  Daniel  Bevier.  .238.  239,  242 

Bevier,  Sarah,  da.  of  Andries 238 

Bevier,  Sarah,  da.  of  Cornelius,  wife  of  Jacob  Hermance 240 

Bevier,  Sarah,  da.  of  Jacob,  wife  of  Cornelius  Bevier 2T^y,  240 

Bevier,  Sarah,  da.  of  Jacobus,  wife  of  Johannis  Freer 247 

Bevier,  Sarah,  da.  of  Johannes,  wife  of  Manuel  Gonsaulus 237 

Bevier,  Sarah,  da.  of  Mathew 239 

Bevier,  Sarah,  da.  of  Nathaniel 248 

Bevier,  Sarah  (2),  da.  of  Philip 245 

Bevier,  Sarah  Amelia,  da.  of  Philip  D.  B.,  wife  of  Cornelius 

Bruyn   251 

Bevier,  Sarah  Vernooy,  da.  of  Abraham  J.,  wife  of  Silas  Gillett.     242 

Bevier,  Simeon,  son  of  Jacobus 246 

Bevier,  Simon 230 

Bevier,  Simon,  son  of  Cornelius,  m.  Maria  Bevier 240 

Bevier,  Simon,  son  of  Jacob  J 241 

Bevier,  Simon,  son  of  Johannes,  m.  i,  Maria  Bevier;    2,  Eliza- 
beth Cantine 237,  238,  241 

Bevier,  Simon,  son  of  Simon 241 

Bevier,  Solomon,  son  of  Abraham,  m.  Elenor  Griffin 244 

Bevier,  Solomon,  son  of  Isaac 244 

Bevier,  Solomon,  son  of  Louis  ist 227,  233 

baptized    391 

Bevier,  Solomon,  son  of  Samuel , 243,  523 

Bevier,  Stephen,  son  of  Jonas 249 

Bevier,  Thomas,  son  of  Abraham  A 246 

Bevier,  Tjerck,  son  of  Benjamin,  m.  Sarah  Dewitt 243 

Bevier,  Wilhelmus,  son  of  Andries,  m.  Annatje  Hoornbeck 238 

Bevier,  Dr.  William  230 

Bevier,  Zacharias,  son  of  Abraham  A 246 

Bevier, ,  wife  of  Abraham  DuBois 303 

Beynx.  Ensign  Thomas   331 

Birdsall,  Lieut.  Daniel 331,  342 

Birdsall.  Hannah,  wife  of  Isaac  Hasbrotick 392 

Biverie,  Laurens,  quaere  Bevier 15 

Blake,  Capt.  W.  H.  D. . 197,  305 

(Blanshan.  Blancon,  Blanjean.) 

Blanshan.  Catharine,  wife  of  Louis  DuBois  ist 6,  38,  280,  508 

captive  of  Indians 16 

m.  Jean.  Cottin 286 

Blanshan,  Catherine,  wife  of  Josiah  Deyo 260 

Blanshan,  Catharine,  wife  of  Jean  LeFevre 415 

Blanshan,  Cornelia,  wife  of  Andre  LeFevre 415 

Blanshan,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Mathew,  wife  of  Peter  Cornelius  Low.  .     468 

Blanshan,  Magdalena,  da.  of  Mathew,  wife  of  Samuel  Bevier 

226,  233.  243 


INDEX  539 

PAGE 

Blanshan,  Maria,  wife  of  Anthony  Crispell 503 

Blanshan,  Mary,  wife  of  Abram  Hasbrouck 373 

widow  of  Abram  Hasbrouck,  wife  of  Daniel  LeFevre 443 

Blanshan,  Mathew 6,  7,  280 

m.  Maddeleen  Jorisse 507 

Blanshan,  Mathew,  Jun 7 

Bloomer,  Deborah  Ann,  wife  of  Nathaniel  DuBois 344 

Bodley,  William,  m.  Blandina  Bevier 234 

Bogardus,  Dr.  John,  m.  i,  Gitty  LeFevre 442 

2,  Maria  Kiting 491 

Bogardus,  Rev.  William  R 157 

Bontecoe  School 279,  358 

Bradford,  Major 2>Z7 

Brannen,  Sarah,  wife  of  Nathan  Bevier 242 

Briggs,  John ■  •  481 

Brink,  Cornelius  L.,  m.  Esther  Bevier 243 

Brinkerhoff.  Capt.  Abraham 394-5 

Brinkerhoff,  Gen.  Roelif 229 

Brinkerhoff,  Hannah,  ist  wife  of  Josiah  Bevier 238-9 

Brinkerhoff,  Henry  J.,  m.  Rachel  Bevier 229 

Brinkerhoff,  Martha,  2d  wife  of  John  L.  Hardenberg 237 

Brinkley.  Lieut.  Thomas  331 

Brister,  Anthony 96 

Brodhead,  Abraham  Deyo  29,  49,  261 

Brodhead,  Andrew,  son  of  John 442 

Brodhead,  Ann,  wife  of  Abraham  Deyo 268 

Brodhead,  C.,  m.  Dinah  Elting 492 

Brodhead,  Charles 299,  431 

Brodhead,  Henry,  son  of  John 442 

Brodhead,  Hester,  v/ife  of  Josiah  Elting 494 

Brodhead,  John,  m.  Rachel  LeFevre 442 

Brodhead,  John  C 268 

Brodhead,  Wessel   3i9 

Brown.  ,  Major 326 

Brown.  Deborah.  2d  wife  of  Thomas  Deyo 278 

Brown.  George  C,  m.  Deyo 277 

Brun,  Jacobus  60 

Brundage,  Martha  J.,  wife  of  Wade  Hampton  Budd 454 

Bruyn,  Andries   271 

Bruvn,  Catharine,  wife  of  Col.  Abraham  Hasbrouck 381 

Bruyn,  Capt.  ?>27 

Bruyn,  Cornelius,  m.  Sarah  Amelia  Bevier 251 

Bruyn,  Gertrude,  wife  of  Cornelius  DuBois,  Jun 310 

Bruvn.  Gertrude,  ist  wife  of  Mathusalem  DuBois 312 

Bruyn,  J 3^9 

Bruyn,  Jacobus I09 

Bruyn,  Lieut. -Col.  Jacobus   330 

taken  prisoner  at  Fort  Montgomery 332 

Bruyn,  Lieut.-Col.  Jacobus  S 328 

Bruyn.  Maria,  wife  of  Lsaac  Hasbrouck 400 

Bruyn,  Severyn,  m.  Margaret  Habsrouck 392 

Bruyn.  Zachariah.  m.  Elizabeth  LeFevre 426 

Bruvn   ,  wife  of  Jeremiah  Hasbrouck 373 

Budd,  Catharine,  da.  of  Samuel,  wife  of  Jonas  LeFevre 453 

Budd.  Catharine,  ist  wife  of  Jonas  N.  LeFevre 43i 


540  INDEX 


Budd,  Gertrude,  da.  of  Samuel 453 

wife  of  Robert  Lawson 453-4 

Budd,  Hiram,  son  of  Samuel,  m.  i,  Maria  Deyo;   2,  Catharine  Ann 

Smedes 453 

Budd,  John 454 

Budd,  Joseph   454 

Budd,  Laura,  da.  of  Samuel 453 

wife  of  Joseph  Harris 454 

Budd,  Samuel,  son  of  Thomas,  m.  Mary  La  Rue 453,  454 

Budd,  Thomas,  of  Monmouth,  N.  J 453 

Budd,  Wade  Hampton,  son  of  Samuel 451 

m.  Martha  J.  Brundage 454 

Budd  Family,  History  of 454 

Burhans,  Catharine,  wife  of  Major  Isaac  LeFevre 435 

Burhans,  Jan 282 

Burnett,  Lieut.  John 331 

Burr,  Aaron   53 

Campbell,  Alexander  123 

Campbell,  Col.  326 

(Cantine,  Cantain.  Quantin,  Quantyne.) 

Cantine,   Catharine,  granddaughter  of  Moses,  wife  of  Daniel  Le- 
Fevre  421,  435.  447 

Cantine,  Elizabeth.  2d  wife  of  Simon  Bevier 237 

Cantine,  Col.  John 395.  420,  430,  457 

Cantine,  Mathew,  member  of  Council  of  Safety 440 

Quantin,  Moses  42,  51,  362 

Cantain,  Moses,  m.  Elizabeth  Deyo,  widow  of  Simon  LeFevre 411 

Quantin,  Moses.  Lieut.  New  Paltz  Foot  Camp 117.  368 

Cantain,  Peter,  son  of  Moses 411 

Cantine,  Peter,  m.  Rachel  Bevier 241 

Cantyn,  Peter,  soldier  in  Kingston  Co.  1715 117 

Cantin, ,  son  of  Moses 41 

Carpenter,  Nehemiah,    (quarterma-^ter) 330 

taken  prisoner  at  Fort  Montgomery 332 

Carshun,  Catharine,  wife  of  Mathias  DuBois 317 

Chalker.  Rev.  Isaac 143 

Chambers,  Abraham  Gasbeck 315 

Chambers,  Lydia,  wife  of  Alvah  Deyo 277 

Chambers,  Thomas  14.  481 

Champlin.  Jacob 3^9 

Charles  IX  of  France  3 

Church  at  New  Paltz i,  3,  59,  63,  91,  265 

281,  305.  322,  349.  351.  359,  360,  364.  418,  464.  477 

no  tax  allowed  for  building 164 

Conferentie  church 148.  305.  311.  468.  477,  479.  486,  487,  491 

reunited  with  old  church  151 

Clearwater   (Klaarwater ) ,  Abraham   472 

Clearwater,  Abraham    92,  257 

son  of  Jacob  42 

Clearwater,  Alphonso  Trumpbour   473 

Clearwater,  Charles  Hiram 473 

Clearwater.  Rev.  Charles  Knapp 473 

Clearwater.  Elsie,  wife  of  Abraham  Deyo 261,  515 

Clearwater,  Hiram       472-3 


INDEX  541 

PAGE 

Clearwater,  Jacob   89,  257 

Clearwater,  Jacob,  son  of  Theunis  Jacobson,  m.  Marie  Deyo. . .  .471,  472 

Clearwater,  Mary 257 

Clearwater,  Thomas,  soldier  in  Revolution 472 

Clearwater,  Thomas  Teunis,  soldier  in  1812 472 

Clearwater,  Tunis  Jacobson   89,  91,  470,  471 

Clinton,  Charles   109 

Clinton,  Gov.  George 54,  325 

letters  from  327,  333,  336,  339 

Clinton,  General  Sir  Henry 336 

letters  from  337 

Clinton,  Col.  James 325 

Clapper,  Cornelius  423 

Clapper,  Henry   423 

Coates,  John,  Surgeon  328 

Coddington,  Joseph,  the  schoolmaster 96,  102,  217 

Codebec,  William,  m.  Jacomyntje  Elting 484 

Colden,  Alexander,  m.  Gertrude  Wynkoop 486 

Colden,  Cadwallader,  Jun 64,  109,  316 

Colden,  David,  m.  Gertrude  Wynkoop,  widow  of  Alexander  Colden    486 

Conklin,  Maria,  wife  of  Severyn  Hasbrouck 406 

Conklin,  Lieut.  Nathaniel   328 

Conklin,  Capt. 337 

Connolly,  Michael,  Paymaster  and  Lieutenant 342 

Cook  (Cooke),  Samuel,  Surgeon 330,  342 

Constable,  ^Ruth,  wife  of  Henry  H.  Hasbrouck 389 

Cornelissen,   Garit   14,   305 

Cornish,  James  C,  m.  Margaret  Peters  Hasbrouck 404 

Cornish.  Rev.  Marion,  son  of  James  C 404 

Cottin,  Jean,  the  schoolmaster   51 

gift  of  a  house  to 22 

m.  Catharine,  widow  of  Louis  DuBois 27,  286 

Craft,  Isaac,  m.  Catharine  DuBois,  widow  of  Dr.  Deyo 302 

Crandle,  Simon 96 

Crispell.  Crespel,  Anthony 6,  7,  13,  15^  19.  20.  52.  106,  474 

m.  Maria  Blanshan 508 

Crispell,  Anthony,  m.  Eliza  DuBois 321 

Crispell,  Anthony,  of  Hurley,  sells  land  in  New  Paltz 33 

Crispell,  Anthony,  trooper  in  1715 117 

Crispell,  Antoine,  son  of  Jan,  m.  Catrina  Van  Benthuysen 524 

Crispell,  Antony,  son  of  Peter,  m.  Leah  Roosa 524 

Crispell,  Anthony,  deceased  3.S4 

Crispell,  DuBois,  son  of  John 386 

Crispell,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Anthoine  the   Patentee,  wife  of  Elias 

Ean    474,  524 

Crispell,  Jan.  soldier  in  1715 ii7 

Crespell.  Johannes   106 

soldier  in  Kingston  Co.  171 5 II7 

Crispell,  John,  m.  Jane  Hasbrouck 386 

Crispell.  Lvdia,  wife  of  Samuel  Hasbrouck 373 

Crispell,   Maria  Maddaleen,   da.  of  Anthoine,  wife  of  Mattys   C. 

Sleght  474.  524 

Crispel,  Peter,  son  of  Anthoine,  ni.  Neeltje  Gerretson 524 

Crispell.  Peter,  son  of  John 386 

Crispell.  Dr.  Peter,  m.  Katie  Elting 497 


542  INDEX 

PAGE 

Daillie,  Rev.  Pierre 25,  52,  55.  59,  362 

arrives  at  New  Paltz  37 

Damour,  Anne,  wife  of  Peter  Guimar 40 

Davenol,  Humphrey. 255 

David.  John   255 

Dean,  Jedediah  96 

De  Bonrepos,  Rev.  David 25,  31,  52,  59,  362 

Decker,  Catharine,  wife  of  Louis  Hasbrouck 406 

Decker,  Mary,  wife  of  Levi  Hasbrouck 387 

Decker,  Matheus,  m.  Magdalen  Bevier 244 

Decker,  Sarah,  wife  of  Col.  Josiah  Hasbrouck 401 

Degraff,  Jenitje,  wife  of  Abraham  Freer,  Jun 364 

De  Graff,  Maria,  wife  of  David  Auchmoody 451 

De  Graff,  Marytje.  wife  of  Christian  Deyo 259 

See  Le  Conte. 

Delavall,  John   .  .■ 61,  309,  376 

Delavall,  Thomas 257 

De  Long,  Jannitje,  wife  of  Benjamin  Hasbrouck 369,  394 

Depew,  Nicator  255 

De  Peyster,  A  109 

Depuy,  Benjamin,  m.  Catharine  Bevier 234 

Depuy,  De  Witt,  m.  Ann  Elizabeth  Bevier 235 

Depuy,  Maria,  ist  wife  of  Severyn  Hasbrouck 405 

Depuy.  Moses  C.  m.  Jane  Bevier 240 

Des  Chalets,  Madeline,  wife  of  Jean  Giron 357 

Devine,  Sarah,  wife  of  Jacob  Hornbeck  Bevier 242 

De  Vou,  Michael  95 

Dewitt,  Andries.  m.  Margaret  Bevier 241 

Dewitt,  Ann,  wife  of  Philip  D.  B.  Bevier 250 

Dewitt,  Catharine,  da.  of  Dr.  Andries,  wife  of  Nathaniel  Bevier. 245,  248 

De  Witt.  Catharine,  wife  of  Deyo 260 

De  Witt,  Cornelius,  m.  Jane  Hasbrouck 387 

De  Witt,  Jacobus  265 

De  Witt.  Johannes  109 

De  Witt,  Johannes  A.,  m.  Rachel  Bevier 236 

De  Witt.  Leah,  wife  of  Nathaniel  Deyo 269 

Dewitt,  Luke,  m.  Elizabeth  Bevier 242 

DeWitt.  Margaret,  wife  of  Jacob  J.  Bevier 237,  241 

Dewitt.  Maria,  wife  of  Jonas  Bevier 245,  249 

DeWitt,  Maria,  2d  wife  of  Roelif  Hasbrouck ^73 

Dewitt.  Marytje.  wife  of  Hugo  Ab.  Freer 363 

De  Witt,  Dr.  Mathew,  m.  Maria  Hasbrouck 404 

De  Witt.  Moses,  m.  Elizabeth  Deyo 268 

Dewitt,  Sarah,  da.  of  Reuben,  wife  of  Tjerck  Bevier 243 

Dewitt.  Stephen,  m.  Maria  Bevier 241 

De  Witt,  William.  Jun 265 

De  Witt.  William  W.,  m.  Lea  Bevier 234 

De  Yadus,  Joost 14 

(Deyo,   de   Yoo,   Doyo,   Doyou.   Doioie,   de  Joo,   DoUiaw.   Doliaw. 

Doliou,  Dieo,  Dujou,  Doiau ) 

Deyo,  Abraham,  the  Patentee 75,  106,  309,  470,  471 

Deyo,  Abraham,  son  of  Pierre  the  Patentee 19.  89.  91,  99.  261 

Deyo,  Abraham,  2d.  m.  Elizabeth  DuBois 297,  299,  516 

Deyo,  Abraham.  3d.  Captain,  et  seq 263 

Deyo.  Abraham.  5th  son  of  Daniel 268 

Deyo.  Abraham,  6th   266 


INDEX  543 

PAGE 

Deyo.  Abram,  Abraham   49,  261,  277 

Deyo,  Capt.  Abraham  477 

Deyo,  Capt.  Abm.,  Cantine's  Regiment 420 

Deyo,  Capt.  Abm.,  m.  Mary  LeFevre,  widow  of  Isaac 441 

Deyo,  Dr.  Abraham   268-9 

Deyo,  Judge  Abraham,  of  Modena 268 

Deyo,  Abraham,  of  Ireland  Corners 266 

Deyo,  Abram,  son  of  Benjamin,  m. Freer 278,  279. 

Deyo,  Abraham,  son  of  Daniel  A 268 

Deyo,  Abraham,  son  of  Joseph 270 

Deyo,  son  of  Pierre,  m.  Elsie  Clarweater 515 

Deyo,  Abraham,  son  of  Simeon > 269 

Deyo,  Abm.,  grandson  of  Christian  the  Patentee 29 

Deyo,  Abram  A.,  son  of  Capt.  Abm 441 

Deyo,  Judge  Abraham  A 264 

sheriff   266 

Deyo,  Abm.  A.,  Jun 29,  266 

Deyo,  Abraham  J 270,  271 

Deyo,  Abm.  W 273,  279 

Deyo,  Abm.  W.,  son  of  William 278,  493 

Deyo,  Alfred    269 

Deyo,  Alvah.  m."  Lydia  Chambers 277 

Deyo,  Andrew  L.  F 266,  269 

Deyo,  Andries 49-  270 

Deyo,  Andries,  son  of  Philip 271 

Deyo,  Andries,  m.  Catharine  Elting 492 

Deyo,  Anna   269 

Deyo.  Anne,  dies 41 

Devo.  Anna,  da.  of  Christian  the  Patentee,  wife  of  Jean  Hasbrouck 

'  the  Patentee    10.  508,  Si5 

Deyo.  Anna,  da.  of  Harvey 278 

Deyo,  Anna,  da.  of  Pierre,  wife  of  John  Hasbrouck 55 

Deyo.  Anning  S.,  son  of  Col.  Jacob 269 

Deyo,  Annitje.  wife  of  Daniel  Freer 360 

Deyo,  Barzillai   268 

Deyo,  Benjamin   44^ 

Deyo,  Benjamin,  son  of  Benjamin 278 

Devo,  Benjamin,  son  of  Hendricus,  m.  Jennek  Van  Vliet 5 

Deyo,  Benjamin 98,  273.  275,  278 

son  of  Hendricus.  m.  Jennek  Van  Vliet 516 

Devo.  Benjamin  I 279 

Devo,  Bridget   278 

Deyo,  Brodhead   268 

Deyo,  Caroline,  wife  of  Dewitt  Ransom 277 

Deyo.  Catharine,  da.  of  William 278 

Deyo,  Catharine,  wife  of  Andries  Elting 271 

Deyo,  Catharine,  wife  of  W.  DuBois 270 

Deyo,  Charles   V  "  '^  ■■■>■■  V     '"^^ 

Deyo,  Christian  10,  13.  I5.  I9,  56,  289,  361,  369.  509 

Deyo.  Christian,  the  Patentee 253 

will  of  254 

agreement  of  the  heirs  of 255 

Deyo,  Christian,  2d,  son  of  Pierre • 

75.  89,  91,  92,  254-S.  257.  259.  260.  509 

and  Mary  Le  Conte  married  42.  5^5 

Devo,  Christian.  3d   259 


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Deyo,  Christian,  4th  260 

Deyo,  Christian,  son  of  John 279 

Deyo,  Christian,  Jun.,  son  of  Moses 98 

Deyo,  Christopher  Cristoff el 259,  275 

son  of  Hendricus  98 

m.  Deborah  Van  Vliet  516 

Deyo,  Clorine 277 

Deyo,  Cornelia  268 

Deyo,  Cornelia,  wife  of  Jacob  G.  DuBois 273 

Deyo,  Cornelia,  wife  of  Josiah  Hasbrouck 270 

Deyo,  Cornelia  Ann,  da.  of  Dr.  Nathaniel 346 

Deyo,  Cornelius  278 

Deyo,  Cornelius,  son  of  William 493 

Deyo,  Daniel 62,  263 

Deyo,  Daniel,  son  of  Abraham 102,  266 

son  of  Abram,  settles  at  Ireland  Corners 423 

m.  Margaret  LeFevre 419 

Deyo,  Daniel,  son  of  Nathaniel 269 

Deyo,  Daniel  A 268 

Deyo,  Daniel  A.,  m.  Petronella  LeFevre 427 

Deyo,  Daniel  L 270 

Deyo,  David   275 

Deyo,  David,  son  of  Benjamin  2d 279 

Deyo,  David,  son  of  Christoffel,  marries  Rachel  Ean 275,  477 

Deyo,  David,  son  of  Isaac 275 

Deyo,  Deborah,  da.  of  Henry,  wife  of  Peter  Ostrander 516 

Deyo,  Delia  Ann,  wife  of  Andrew  LeFevre 277 

Deyo,  Delilah  270 

Deyo,  De  Witt,  son  of  Benjamin  2d 279 

Deyo,  Dr.,  m.  Catharine  DuBois 302 

Deyo,  Eleanor  269,  270 

Deyo,  Electa,  wife  of  Philip  Elting 270 

Deyo,  Elijah  277 

m.  Patty  Thomas 278 

Deyo.  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Christian  the  Patentee,  wife  of  Simon  Le- 
Fevre the  Patentee 10,  11,  271,  410,  421,  509,  515 

widowed,  marries  Moses  Cantain 41 1 

Deyo,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Hendricus  3d 277 

Deyo,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Henry  Deyo,  wife  of  Abm.  E.  Hasbrouck.  .  277 

Deyo,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Henry  DuBois 270 

Deyo,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Moses  DeWitt 268 

Deyo,  Elmira,  wife  of  Philip  D.  LeFevre 277 

Deyo,  Emeretta.  wife  of  Barton  Weed 278 

Deyo,  Emily,  wife  of  Josiah  Elting 277 

Deyo,  Ennis 277 

Deyo,  Elsie,  widow  of  Abraham 92 

Deyo,  Elsie,  wife  of  Andries  Bruyn 271 

Deyo,  Esther,  da.  of  Christian  2d,  wife  of  Hugo  Hugosen  Freer  516 

Deyo,  Evelina,  da.  of  Dr.  Nathaniel 346 

Deyo,  Evert  276 

Deyo,  Ezekiel  265 

son  of  Lucas  276 

Deyo.  Ezekiel,  son  of  William 278,  493 

Deyo,  Ezekiel  I •  •  273 

Deyo.  Francis  276 


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PAGE 

Deyo,  Frank  DeWitt,  son  of  Dr.  Nathaniel 346 

Deyo,  George,  son  of  Joseph  H.,  goes  to  Ilhnois 277 

Deyo,  George,  son  of  Thomas 278 

Deyo,  Hagetea,  da.  of  Henry 275 

wife  of  John  Freer 359,  517 

Deyo,  Hannah,  wife  of  Noah  Elting 496 

Deyo,  Harvey   277 

m.  Ellen  Tcoker .• 278 

Deyo,  Heckaliah 278 

Deyo,  Hendrick   58 

Deyo,  Hendricus  259-60,  504 

Deyo,  Hendricus  or  Henry,  son  of  Pierre  the  Patentee 

40,  89,  91,  92,  273,  275 

m.  Margaret  van  Bummel  (Wanboom)    •. . .     515 

Deyo,  Hendricus,  son  of  Hendricus 270 

Deyo.  Hendricus,  son  of  Hendricus 275 

m.  Elizabeth  Beem 276,  517 

Deyo,  Henricus   257 

Deyo,  Henry,  Aenrey 75,  106 

Deyo,  Henry,  son  of  Elijah 278 

Deyo,  Henry,  son  of  Hendricus 277 

m.  Elizabeth  L.  Bevier 248,  277 

Deyo,  Henry,  son  of  John  W 278 

Deyo,  Hiram  C 269 

Deyo,  Ira  271 

Deyo,  Isaac 275 

son  of  Henry,  m.  Agatha  Freer 5i-o 

Deyo,  Israel  T 261 

Deyo,  Jacob,  Colonel  of  Militia 269 

Deyo,  Jacob,  grandson  of  Peter,  Jun 276 

Deyo.  Jacobus 92,  259,  260 

son  of  Christian  2d.  m.  Janetje  Freer 5^5 

Deyo.  Jacobus,  soldier  Kingston  Co.  1738 118 

Deyo,  Jacobus,  2d  260 

Devo.  James  E  . . 98,  259,  477 

Deyo,  Jane.  da.  of  William  Deyo,  wife  of  Joseph 277,  278 

Deyo,   Jane  H 269 

Deyo,  Johannis 259.  275 

Deyo,  Johannis.  son  of  Daniel  A 268 

Deyo,  Johannes,  son  of  Hendricus 98 

m.  Sarah  Van  Wagenen  275,  516 

Deyo,  Johannis,  Jun 259 

Deyo,  John,  son  of  Benjamin 278 

m.   Catrina  Kritsinger   279 

Deyo.  John,  son  of  John 279 

Deyo,  John,  son  of  Nathaniel ••     209 

Deyo,  John,  son  of  Dr.  Nathaniel 269.  346 

Deyo  John  B 266 

Deyo.  John  H 268 

Deyo,  John  L 271 

Deyo,  John  W •••••■     ^77 

Deyo,  Jonathan   260,  262,.  268 

Deyo,  Jonathan,  son  of  Abraham  2d 270 

Deyo,  Jonathan,  son  of  Daniel  L 271 

Deyo,  Jonathan,  m.  Catharine  Ean 477 


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Deyo,  Jonathan,  m.  Mary  LeFevre 440 

Deyo,  Jonathan  N 269 

Deyo,  Joseph  269 

Deyo,  Joseph,  son  pf  Hendricus  2d 276 

Deyo,  Joseph  H 277 

Deyo,  Josiah  260 

Deyo,  JuHa,  wife  of  Philip  LeRoy 277 

Deyo,  LeFevre .     421 

Deyo,  Levi  279 

Deyo,  Livingston,  m. Saxton 278 

Deyo,  Lucas,  son  of  Peter,  Jun.,  m. Van  Kleeck 276 

Deyo,  Luther,  m.  Frances  E.  Pratt 277 

Deyo,  Lydia,  wife  of  Jacob  LeFevre 435 

Deyo,  Madahne,  da.  of  Peter  (Pierre),  baptized *  39 

Deyo,  Margaret,  da.  of  Pierre 2>7 

Deyo,  Margaret   10,  55,  257,  266 

da.  of  Christian,  wife  of  Abraham  DuBois 11,  289,  509.  515 

Deyo,  Margaret,  da.  of  Thomas 278 

Deyo,  Margaret,  da.  of  Christian  2d,  wife  of  Marinus  Van  Acken.  .     516 

Deyo,  Maria,  da.  of  William 278 

Deyo,  Maria,  da.  of  Christian,  wife  of  Abraham  Hasbrouck 

II,  368,  509.  515 

Deyo,  Maria,  da.  of  Harvey 278 

Deyo,  Maria,  da.  of  Pierre  the  Patentee,  wife  of  Isaac  Freer 358 

Deyo,  Maria,  ist  wife  of  Hiram  Budd 453 

Deyo,  Maria,  wife  of  Martymas  Freer 2^0 

Deyo,  Maria,  wife  of  Mathusalem  Hasbrouck 373 

Deyo,  Marie,  da.  of  Abraham  the  Patentee,   wife  of  Jacob  Clear- 
water         471 

Deyo,  Mary  239 

Deyo.  Mary.  da.  of  Elizabeth 39 

Deyo,  Mary,  da.  of  Pierre  the  Patentee ^,7 

Deyo.  Mar}',  da.  of  Christian,  wife  of  James  Auchmoody.  .  .259,  451,  516 

Deyo.  Mary,  wife  of  Abraham  J.  Deyo 270,  271 

Deyo,  Mary,  wife  of  Andrie  Bevier 239 

Deyo.  Mary,  wife  of  Andries  DuBois 302 

Deyo,  Mary,  wife  of  Simon  DuBois 268 

Deyo,  Mary,  wife  of  Nathaniel  LeFevre 203,  426,  428 

Deyo.  Mary,  wife  of  Oscar  Noyes 269 

Deyo,  Mary  Ann 269.  278 

Deyo.  Marytie.  da.  of  Abraham,  wife  of  Isaac  Freer 261,  516 

Deyo,  Mathew  98,  259 

Deyo,  Mathew,  2d  260 

Deyo,  Maurice  W 278 

Deyo.  Monroe 270 

Deyo,  Moses   92,  259 

Deyo,  Moses,  2d 260 

Deyo,  Moses,  son  of  Christian,  son  of  Pierre  ist 93 

m.  Clarissa  Stokhard 259.  516 

Deyo,  Moses,  son  of  John 279 

Deyo,  M.  L 261 

Deyo,  Nathan  269 

Deyo,  Nathaniel 268,  431 

Deyo.  Nathaniel,  son  of  Daniel 269 

Deyo.  Nathaniel  DuBois.  son  of  Dr.  Nathaniel 346 


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PAGE 

Deyu.  Dr.  Nathaniel,  son  of  Jonathati 268 

m.  Cornelia  Bruyn  DuBois ■-•••" 346 

Deyo,  Noah,  son  of  Joseph  H 277 

Deyo,  Oliver  Hazard  Perry 269 

Deyo,  Rev.  Paul  T.,  son  of  David  98,  275,  477 

Deyo,  Perry 271 

Deyo,  Peter  (Pierre),  the  Patentee.  .10,  13,  15,  55,  58,  257,  259,  507,  509 

son  of  Christian  the  Patentee,  m.  Agatha  Nickel 253,  515 

Deyo,  Peter,  son  of  Pierre  the  Patentee 37,  89,  91,  92,  257 

dies    30-31 

Deyo,  Peter,  Jun 275,  276 

Deyo,  Peter,  son  of  Hendricus 97,  98 

m.  Elizabeth  Helm 516 

Deyo,  Peter,  son  of  Jonathan 270 

Deyo,  Peter,  son  of  Lucas 276 

Deyo,  Peter,  m.  Cornelia  Elting 491 

Deyo,  Phebe,  wife  of 'Abm.  Deyo 277 

Deyo.  Phebe  Ann,  wife  of Goodrich .•• 278 

Deyo,  Philip  49,  263,  271 

m.  Gertrude  LeFevre 426 

Deyo,  Philip  T. 278 

Deyo,  Rachel,  wife  of  Abraham  Schoonmaker 500 

Deyo,  Rebecca,  da.  of  William 278 

Deyo,  Reuben ' 270 

m.  Ellen  DuBois  302 

Deyo,  Richard 261 

Deyo,  Robert  E.  . 269,  325 

Deyo,  Robert  Emmet,  son  of  Dr.  Nathaniel 346 

Deyo,  Roelif,  son  of  William 278,  493 

Deyo.  Rowena   270 

Deyo,  Samuel,  son  of  Thomas 278 

Deyo,  Sarah  269,  275 

Deyo.  Sarah,  da.  of  Henry,  wife  of  Isaac  Van  Wagenen 517 

Deyo,  Sarah,  da.  of  Philip  ist,  wife  of  Solomon  P.  LeFevre.  .  .  .273,  432 

Deyo,  Sarah,  da.  of  William 278 

Deyo.  Simeon   263,  269 

Deyo,  Simeon,  son  of  Joseph 270 

Deyo,  Simeon,  2d,  son  of  Jacob 269 

Deyo.  Simon,  son  of  Abraham  3d 264 

Deyo,  Stephen  279 

De3'o,  Theodore 49-  ^57 

Deyo,  Mrs.  Theodore  49 

Deyo,   Theron    278 

Deyo.  Thomas,  son  of  Hendricus  3d 277 

m.  I , Elting  ;   2,  Deborah  Brown 278 

Deyo,  Thomas  J •• 268 

Deyo,  Tjerck   276 

Deyo,  Tjerck,  son  of  Benjamin  2d 279 

Deyo.  Van  Zandt,  son  of  Dr.  Nathaniel 346 

Deyo,  William  261 

Deyo,  William,  son  of  Benjamin 278 

m.  Sarah,  da.  of  Roelif  J.  Elting 493 

Deyo.  William,  m.  Rachel  LeFevre 428 

Deyo,  William  H 277 

Deyo,  William  W..  son  of  William 278,  493 

m.  Sarah  Hasbrouck  373 


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INDEX 


FACE 

Deyo,  Woolsey,  son  of  John  W 278 

Deyo,  Wyntje,  wife  of  Daniel  Hasbrouck 261,  369 

wife  of  Nathaniel  LeFevre 267 

■  Dickerson,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  William,  wife  of  Benjamin  Has- 
brouck       389 

Doag,  Alexander,  schoolmaster 217 

Dodge,  Lieut.  Henry 328,  331 

Adjutant    342 

Dodge,  Lieut.  Samuel 331 

taken  prisoner  at  Fort  Montgomery 332 

Donaldson,  Abraham  95,  loi 

Donalson,  William,  of  Lancaster  Co.,  Penna 289 

Dongan,  Gov.  Thomas  61,  309,  376 

Doren,  Arthur,  m.  Rachel  DuBois 302 

Drake,  Charles 374 

(DuBois,  Debois,  DuBoois,  D.  Booys.) 

DuBois,  Abraham.  .  13,  15,  27,  5i.  55,  56,  58,  64,  75,  89,  91,  92,  256,  316,  362 

DuBois,  Abraham,  the  Patentee,  son  of  Louis  1st 280,  286 

m.  Margaret  Deyo,  will  of 289 

last  survivor  of  the  Patentee 289 

DuBois,  Abraham,  2d,  son  of  Abraham  the  Patentee 289,  508 

settles  in  Somerset  Co.,  N.  J 289 

DuBois,  Abraham,  son  of  Abraham,  baptized 38 

DuBois,  Abraham,  son  of  Benjamin,  m.  Magdalen  Bevier 245,  303 

DuBois,  Abraham,  son  of  Daniel,  m.  Anna  LeFevre  of  Blooming- 
dale   303,  450 

DuBois,  Abram,  son  of  Mathusalem 313 

DuBois,  Abraham,  son  of  Simon 301 

DuBois,  Abraham,  m.  Margaret  Deyo 11 

DuBois,  Abm.  A.,  son  of  Abm 450 

DuBois,  Abm.  R 371 

DuBois,  Amanda,  da.  of  Lewis  4th,  wife  of  Samuel  Harris 345 

DuBois,  Andries,  son  of  Andries 319 

DuBois,  Andries,  son  of  Jonathan 318 

m.  Sarah  LeFevre 319 

DuBois,  Andries,  son  of  Simon 300 

m.  Mary  Deyo 302 

DuBois,  Andries,  m.  Maria  Elting 492 

DuBois,  Ann,  da.  of  Mathias 317 

DuBois,  Anna,  da.  of  Benjamin,  wife  of  Peter  Freer 303 

DuBois,  Anna,  da.  of  Lewis  4th,  wife  of  Henry  E.  Leman 346 

DuBois,  Anna,  da.  of  Louis  J 321 

wife  of  Jacob  J.  Hasbrouck 322 

DuBois,  Anna.  2d  wife  of  Jacob  Hasbrouck,  Jun 402 

DuBois,  Ann  Amelia,  da.  of  Cornelius 344 

DuBois,  Ann  Amelia,  da.  of  Nathaniel.  ." 344 

DuBois,  Ann  Eliza,  da.  of  John 344 

DuBois,  Rev.  Anson 275,  307 

DuBois,  Antoinette,  da.  of  Josiah 311 

DuBois,  Augustus,  son  of  Louis  3d 317 

DuBois,  Barent,  son  of  Jacob,  m.  Jacomyntje  DuBois 307 

DuBois,  Benjamin,  son  of  Abraham 303 

DuBois,  Benjamin,  son  of  Benjamin 307 

DuBois.  Benjamin,  son  of  Daniel,  son  of  Isaac  the  Patentee 98 

DuBois,  Benjamin,  son  of  Daniel 296 

m.  Maria  Bevier  235,  299,  303 


INDEX 


549 


DuBois,  Benjamin,  son  of  Isaac  the  Patentee,  baptized 39 

dies  young  . 293 

DuBois,  Benjamin,  son  of  Solomon 310 

m.  Catharine  Suylant  and  settles  at  Catskill,  Greene  Co 307 

DuBois,  Rev.  Benjamin,  grandson  of  Jacob 287 

DuBois,  Blanche,  da. -in-law  of  David  de  Bonrepos 31 

DuBois,  Brodhead,  son  of  Jonathan,  settles  in  Michigan 321 

DuBois,  Caroline,  da.  of  Cornelius 344 

DuBois,  Catharine,  da.  of  Abram 40-41 

DuBois,  Catharine,  da.  of  Andries,  wife  of  Dr.  Deyo  and  later  of 

Isaac  Craft 302 

DuBois,  Catharine,  da.  of  Charles,  wife  of  Abiel  Hand 321 

DuBois,  Catharine,  da.  of  Garret 493 

DuBois,  Catharine,  da.  of  Hendricus,  wife  of  Mathew  DuBois 311 

DuBois,  Catharine,  da.  of  Isaac 307 

DuBois,  Catharine,  da.  of  Judge  Jonathan  of  Springtown,  wife  of 

Benjamin  Van  Wagenen   480 

DuBois.  Catharine,  da.  of  Louis  2d 314 

DuBois,  Catharine,  da.  of  Cornelius,  wife  of  Col.  Jonathan  Has- 

brouck 310,  381 

DuBois,  Catharine,  da.  of  Solomon  of  Poughwoughtenonk,  wife  of 

Peter  Low   ' 307,  468 

DuBois,  Catharine,  wife  of  Dr.  Abraham  Deyo 270 

DuBois,  Catharine,  wife  of  Jonas  Hasbrouck 371 

DuBois,  Catharine,  wife  of  Dr.  Jacob  Wirtz  (Wurts) 465 

DuBois,  Charles,  son  of  Louis  3d 317 

DuBois,  Charles,  son  of  Lewis  5th 345 

DuBois,  Charles,  son  of  Louis  J 321 

DuBois,  Charles  Augustus,  son  of  Nathaniel 344 

DuBois,  Charlotte,  da.  of  Cornelius 344 

DuBois.  Chretien   (Christian) 6,  280 

DuBois,  Clementine  Williams,  da.  of  Lewis  4th,  wife  of  Reuben 

H.  Rohrer  346 

DuBois,  Col.,  son  of  Louis,  son  of  Louis  J 322 

DuBois,  Cornelia,  da.  of  Jonathan,  wife  of  Cornelius  Vernooy 318 

DuBois,  Cornelia,  da.  of  Simon,  wife  of  Josaphat  Hasbrouck.  ..300,  371 
DuBois,  Cornelia  Bruyn,  da.  of  Lewis  4th,  wife  of  Dr.  Nathaniel 

Deyo   346 

DuBois,  Cornelius  319 

m.  Rebecca  DuBois,  his  cousin 313 

DuBois,  Cornelius,  son  of  Benjamin 307 

DuBois,  Cornelius,  son  of  Mathusalem 313 

DuBois,  Cornelius,  son  of  Solomon 97 

DuBois,  Cornelius,  son  of  Wilhelmus,  has  three  wives 344 

DuBois,  Cornelius,  Sr.,  son  of  Solomon 306,  307,  310 

m.  Margaret  Houghtaling 309 

DuBois,  Cornelius,  Jun.,  son  of  Cornelius,  Sr 306,  310 

Quartermaster  4th  Regiment,  m.  Gertrude  Bruyn 310 

DuBois,  Dallas,  son  of  Nathaniel 344 

DuBois,  Daniel  50,  75,  92,  106,  290,  309,  353,  423 

DuBois,  Daniel,  m.  Catharine  LeFevre 430 

DuBois,  Daniel,  trooper  in  1715 117 

DuBois,  Daniel,  soldier  Ulster  County  Militia  1738 118 

DuBois,  Daniel,  son  of  Benjamin,  m.  Catharine  LeFevre 303 

DuBois.  Daniel,  son  of  Daniel 301 


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DuBois,  Daniel,  son  of  Isaac  the  Patentee 293,  301 

baptized  38 

m.  Mary  LeFevre 412 

house  of,  built  In  1705,  still  standing 294 

will  of  296 

DuBois,  Daniel,  son  of  Isaac,  son  of  Simon,  m.  Magdalene  Has- 

brouck 301,  2,7 ?> 

DuBois,  Daniel,  son  of  Mathias 317 

DuBois,  Daniel,  son  of  Simon,  m.  Catharine  Bessimer 300 

DuBois,  Daniel  A.,  son  of  Abraham 303 

DuBois,  Daniel  Asa,  son  of  Cornelius 344 

DuBois.  Daniel  Lockwood,  son  of  Lewis  4th,  never  married 346 

DuBois,  David,  son  of  Jonas 321 

DuBois,  David,  son  of  Lewis  i  st 280,  286 

DuBois,  Lieut.  David n? 

DuBois,  Capt.  David 328 

DuBois,  Deborah  Ann,  da.  of  Cornelius 344 

DuBois,  Derick  W.,  son  of  Charles 321 

DuBois,  Deyo,  son  of  Jonas 321 

m.  Elizabeth  LeFevre  428 

DuBois,  Dinah,  da.  of  Hendricus,  ist  wife  of  Abram  Elting..3ii,  487,  494 

DuBois,  Edward,  son  of  Josiah 311 

DuBois,  Edwin  Lockwood,  son  of  Gen.  Nathaniel 347 

DuBois.  Eli,  of  Ellenville,  grandson  of  Wessel 321 

DuBois,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Andries,  wife  of  Samuel  Duncan 302 

DuBois,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Andries,  wife  of  Johannes  LeFevre 319 

DuBois,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Cornelius 344 

DuBois,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Daniel,  wife  of  Abraham  Deyo  2d 297,  299 

DuBois,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Isaac 307 

DuBois,  Eliza,  da.  of  Jonas,  wife  of  Anthony  Crispell 321 

DuBois,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Josiah,  wife  of  Dr.  Isaac  Reeve 311 

DuBois,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Louis  3d 317 

DuBois,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Lewis  4th,  dies  young 346 

DuBois,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Louis  J 321 

wife  of  Rev.  Stephen  Goetchius 3^^ 

DuBois,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Wilhelmus,  wife  of  John  W.  Wygant.^  344 

DuBois,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Abraham  Deyo  2d,  called  "Capt.  Batche"  263 

DuBois.  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Johannes  LeFevre 426 

DuBois,  Elizabeth  Wygant,  da.  of  Nathaniel ,344 

DuBois,  Ellen,  da.  of  Andries,  wife  of  Reuben  Deyo 302 

DuBois,  Elsie,  da.  of  Andries,  wife  of  Philip  LeFevre 319,  43i 

DuBois,  Emma,  da.  of  Nathaniel .  344 

DuBois,   Esther,  da.  of  Isaac  the   Patentee,  wife  of  Louis   Bevier 

of  Marbletown   230,  293 

DuBois,  Esther,  da.  of  Philip,  wife  of  Louis  Bevier 249 

DuBois,  Eugene,  son  of  Nathaniel 344 

DuBois,  Fletcher,  son  of  Nathaniel 344 

DuBois,  Garret,  son  of  Henry 313 

m.  Maria  Elting 493 

DuBois,  Garret  L 3^3 

DuBois,  George,  son  of  Jonas 321 

DuBois,  George,  son  of  Jonathan 321 

DuBois,  Gilbert,  son  of  Josiah 311 

DuBois,  Hannah,   da.  of  Cornelius,  Jun..  wife  of  Andries  J.  Le- 
Fevre     •. 311.  427 

DuBois,  Hannah,  da.  of  Nathaniel,  son  of  Col.  Lewis 344 


INDEX  551 


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DuBois,  Hardenburgh,  son  of  Joseph 303 

DuBois,  Helena,  da.  of  Solomon,  wife  of  Josiah  Eking 307,  310,  487 

DuBois,  Hendricus,  son  of  Solomon 97,  307,  310 

m.  Janetje  Houghtaling .\  .  311 

contributes  to  Conferentie  Church 312 

DuBois,  Hendricus,  Fence  Viewer,  New  Paltz 300 

DuBois,  Henry  270 

DuBois,  Henry,  son  of  Charles 321 

DuBois,  Henry,  son  of  Garret 493 

DuBois,  Henry  or  Hendricus,  son  of  Hendricus 311 

soldier  in  Revolution  312,  313 

m.  Rebecca  Van  Wagenen 313 

DuBois,  Adj  utant  Henry 328,  330 

Colonel    342 

DuBois,  Henry  I.,  son  of  Isaac 301 

DuBois,  Henry  L 100,  319 

DuBois,  Henry  M.,  son  of  Mathusalem,  son  of  Cornelius 313 

DuBois,  Hester,  da.  of  Nathaniel,  wife  of  Col.  Jesse  Woodhull.  . .  .  322 

DuBois,  Hiskiah,  soldier  Kingston  Co.  1738 118 

DuBois,  Hudson,  son  of  Nathaniel  344 

DuBois,  Huybartus,  son  of  Benjamin 307 

DuBois,  Isaac,  the  Patentee 13,  15,  263,  280,  286,  508 

DuBois,  Isaac,  m.  Mary  Hasbrouck 42.  254,  293,  400 

family  of   293 

dies    40 

DuBois,  Isaac,  son  of  Benjamin 307 

DuBois,  Isaac,  son  of  Daniel 296 

DuBois,  Isaac,  son  of  Jacob loi 

DuBois,  Isaac,  son  of  Gen.  Nathaniel 347 

DuBois.  Isaac,  son  of  Simon 300 

m.    Rebecca   Deyo,   moves   to   Chenango   County,   but   returns, 

private  in  3d  Ulster  County  Regiment 310 

DuBois.  Isaac,  son  of  Solomon 310 

m.  Rachel  DuBois  and  moves  to  Lancaster  Co.,  Penn 289,  307 

DuBois,  Isaac,  soldier  Kingston  Co.  1738 118 

DuBois,  Isaac,  soldier  in  the  Revolution 265 

DuBois,  Jacob loi 

DuBois,  Jacob,  son  of  Charles,  moves  to  Michigan 321 

DuBois,  Jacob,  son  of  Louis  ist 280,  282,  286 

son  of,  settles  in  Monmouth  Co.,  N.  J 287 

DuBois,  Jacob,  soldier  in  Hurley  Co.  1717 118 

DuBois,  Lieut.  Jacob  117 

DuBois,  Jacob  G.,  son  of  Garret 493 

DuBois,  Jacob  M 97 

DuBois.  Capt.  Jacob  M.,  son  of  Mathusalem  2d 311.  3I3 

DuBois,  Jacobus,  Jun..  soldier  Kingston  Co.  1738 118 

DuBois.  Jacomyntje,  da.  of  Cornelius,  wife  of  Andries  Bevier. .  .236.  238 
DuBois.  Jacomyntje,  da.  of  Solomon,  wife  of  Barent  DuBois.  son 

of  Jacob  307 

da.  of  Andries  Bevier 3io 

DuBois,  Jacques,  brother  of  Louis  ist 281 

DuBois.  James,  son  of  Jonas 321 

DuBois,  Jane.  da.  of  Cornelius 344 

wife  of  Major  Jacob  Hasbrouck 310 

DuBois.  Jane.  da.  of  Cornelius,  Sr.,  wife  of  Jacob  Hasbrouck.  Jun..  400 

DuBois,  Jane,  da.  of  Cornelius.  Jun.,  wife  of  Jacob  Hardenburgh. 311.  458 


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DuBois,  Jane,  da.  of  Henry,  wife  of  Z.  Freer 313 

DuBois,  Jane,  da.  of  Josiah,  wife  of  Dr.  William  Pierson 311 

DuBois,  Joel  289,  290 

DuBois,  Johannes 52 

m.  Rachel  LeFevre  430 

DuBois,  Johannes,  soldier  Ulster  County  Militia  1738 118 

DuBois.  John,  son  of  Johannes  and  Judith  Wjmkoop,  m.  Anna 

Bevier    237 

DuBois,  John,  son  of  John,  son  of  Mathias 317 

DuBois,  John,  son  of  Jonathan,  settles  in  Michigan 321 

DuBois,  John,  son  of  Louis  3d 317 

DuBois,  John,  son  of  Mathias 317 

DuBois,  John,  son  of  Wilhelmus,  m.  Rebecca  Wygant 344 

DuBois,  John,  W.,  son  of  Daniel 301 

DuBois,  Jonas,  son  of  Jonathan 318 

dies  young 319 

DuBois,  Jonas,  son  of  Louis  J 321 

DuBois,  Jonas,  son  of  Nathaniel 322 

DuBois,  Jonathan,  son  of  Andries 31 

DuBois,  Jonathan,  son  of  Louis  2d 314 

m.  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Andries  LeFevre 318,  417 

will  of  318 

DuBois,  Jonathan,  son  of  Louis  J 321 

DuBois,  Jonathan,  son  of  Wessel 321 

DuBois,  Joseph,  son  of  Andries. 302 

dies  in  the  Army.  1812 16 

DuBois,  Joseph,  son  of  Isaac,  moves  to  Michigan 301 

DuBois,  Joseph,  son  of  Simon 300 

m.  Mary  Hardenburgh  302 

DuBois,  Josiah 64,  271,  306,  316 

DuBois,  Josiah,  m.  EHzabeth  Hasbrouck 401 

DuBois,  Josiah,  son  of  Cornelius,  Sr 310 

DuBois,  Josiah,  son  of  Cornelius,  Jun.,  m.  i,  Elizabeth  Hasbrouck ; 

2,  Catharine  Winfield  311 

DuBois,  Josiah,  son  of  Josiah 311 

DuBois,  Katharine,  da.  of  Abraham,  wife  of  William  Donalson  of 

Lancaster  Co.,  Penna 289 

DuBois,  Katy  Ann,  da.  of  Louis,  son  of  Louis  J 322 

DuBois,  Leah,  da.  of  Abraham  the  Patentee,  baptized 39 

DuBois,  Leah,  da.  of  Abraham,  m.  Philip  Ferric 289 

DuBois,  Leah,  da.  of  Hendricus,  wife  of  Christopher  Kiersted 311 

DuBois,  Leah,  da.  of  Solomon,  wife  of  Cornelius  Wjmkoop 310 

DuBois,  LeFevre,  son  of  Jonas 321,  403,  469 

DuBois,  Lockley,  da.  of  Mathias 317 

DuBois,  Louis,  ist   

6,  7,  8,  9,  10,  II,  12,  13.  IS,  19.  51.  53.  56.  61,  64,  253,  483 

m.  Catharine  Blanshan  280,  508 

church  elder  and  returns  to  Kingston 281 

will  of 283 

patent  to  305 

DuBois,  Louis,  2d.  or  Jun 61,  89,  91,  92,  280,  286.  305 

quit  claim  to,  and  brother 309 

settles  at  Nescatack  or  Libertyville  and  marries  Rachel  Has- 
brouck     314.  317 

boundaries  of  land  of ^16 


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DuBois  Louis,  3d,  son  of  Louis  2d 314 

m.  Charity  Andrevelt  and  settles  on  Staten  Lsland 317 

DuBois,  Lewis  4th,  son  of  Col.  Lewis 317 

m.  Annie  Hull 345 

DuBois,  Lewis,  5th,  son  of  Lewis  4th,  m.  Jane  Thorne 345 

DuBois,  Louis,  son  of  Andries. 319 

DuBois,  Louis,  son  of  Charles 321 

DuBois,  Lewis,  son  of  Nathaniel  ist,  m.  Rachel  DuBois 310 

Colonel  5th  Continentals  322  ■ 

buried  at  Marlboro 323 

military  service  of,  et.  seq 325,  342 

DuBois,  Louis,  son  of  Jacob,  settles  in  Monmouth  Co.,  N.  J. . . .     287 

DuBois,  Louis,  son  of  Louis  J 321 

DuBois,  Louis,  son  of  Mathias 317 

DuBois,  Louis,  Corporal  of  Troop  in  1715 117 

DuBois,  Louis,  of  Denning,  grandson  of  Wessel 321 

DuBois,  Louis,  Jun 383,  483 

DuBois,  Louis,  Jun.,  soldier  in  Kingston  Co.  1715 117 

DuBois,  Louis  L,  son  of  Jonas 321 

DuBois,  Louis  J.,  son  of  Jonathan 318 

m.  Catharine  Brodhead 319 

Captain  3d  Ulster  County  Regiment 100,  321 

DuBois,  Louis  L 321.  322 

DuBois,  Louis  Matthyse,  soldier  in  Kingston  Co.,  1715 117 

DuBois,  L.  Nathaniel,  of  Walden,  son  of  Jonas 321 

DuBois,  Luther,  son  of  Nathaniel 344 

DuBois,  Marcus  Dougherty,  son  of  Lewis  4th 346 

DuBois,  Margaret,  da.  of  Abraham 304 

DuBois,   Margaret,   da.  of  Cornelius,  Jun..  wife  of  Abm.  J.  Har- 

denburgh  31 1  •  458 

DuBois,  Margaret,  da.  of  Isaac 307 

DuBois,  Margaret,  da.  of  Col.  Lewis,  wife  of  Daniel  Lockwood.  .  .  .     346 

da.  of  Gen.  Nathaniel  DuBois 347 

DuBois,  Maria,  da.  of  Garret 493 

DuBois,  Maria,  da.  of  John 344 

DuBois,  Maria,  da.  of  Jonas,  wife  of  Jacob  Ostrander 321 

DuBois,  Maria,  da.  of  Jonathan,  wife  of  Abm.  Bevier,  Jun.  . .  .     236,  318 
DuBois,  Maria,  da.  of  Louis,  Jim.,  wife  of  Col.  Johannes  Harden- 

burgh    314,  460 

DuBois,  Mary  SO 

DuBois.  Marv,  da.  of  Cornelius 344 

DuBois,  Mary,  da.  of  Cornelius,  Jun.,  wife  of  William  McDonald.  .     311 

DuBois,  Mary.  da.  of  Daniel 301 

DuBois,  Mar}^  da.  of  Henry  (Hendricus) 313 

DuBois,  Mary,  da.  of  Col.  Lewis,  wife  of  Asa  Steward 344 

DuBois,  Mary,  da.  of  Mathias 2>'i^7 

DuBois,  Marj',  da.  of  Simon,  wife  of  Jacobus  Rose 300 

DuBois,  Mary,  widow  of  Isaac 39-91 

DuBois.  Mary  Louisa,  da.  of  Nathaniel 344 

DuBois,  Mathew,  son  of  Louis  ist 280,  281,  286 

m.  Catharine  DuBois   3i I 

DuBois,  Mathew  Wygant,  son  of  John 344 

DuBois,  Mathias,  son  of  John,  son  of  Mathias 317 

DuBois,  Mathias,  son  of  Louis  3d,  m.  i.  Catharine  Carshun;    2d, 

,  and  moves  to  Broome  Co.,  N.  Y Z'^y 


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DuBois,  Mathias,  son  of  Mathias 317 

DuBois,  Mathusalem,  son  of  Cornelius 313 

DuBois,  Mathusalem,  son  of  Ephriam,  m.  Katrintje  Bevier 244 

DuBois,  Mathusalem,  son  of  Hendricus 311,  313 

soldier   in   Revolution,    m.    i,    Gertrude   Bruyn;     2,    Catharine 

Bevier,  grandsons  of  312 

called  "Old  Captain" 312 

DuBois,  Melissa,  da.  of  Daniel,  wife  of  Benjamin  Relyea 301 

DuBois,  Melissa,  da.  of  Lewis  4th,  wife  of  William  C.  Goddard  345 

DuBois,  Nathan.  Corporal  Kingston  Co.  1738 118 

DuBois,  Nathaniel   318 

DuBois,  Nathaniel.  Capt.  Orange  County  Regiment  1738 118 

DuBois,  Nathaniel,  son  of  Andries,  locates  at  Shivertown 319 

DuBois,  Nathaniel,  son  of  Jonathan,  son  of  Louis  2d 99 

does  not  marry  318,  319 

DuBois,  Nathaniel,  son  of  Louis  2d 314 

locates  at  Salisbury  Mills,  Orange  Co.,  and  m.  Gertrude  Bruyn,  322 

DuBois,  Nathaniel,  son  of  Col.  Lewis 344 

DuBois.  Nathaniel,  son  of  Wilhelmus,  m.  Deborah  Ann  Bloomer.  . .  344 
DuBois.    Gen.    Nathaniel,    son   of   Zachary,   m.   Margaret   DuBois, 

widow  of  Daniel  Lockwood 347 

DuBois.  Nathaniel  Hull,  son  of  Lewis  4th 345 

DuBois,  Oliver  G.,  son  of  Derick,  m.  Catharine  Bevier 251 

DuBois.  Pamela,  da.  of  Josiah,  wqfe  of  Abner  Hasbrouck 311 

DuBois,  Patterson,  of  Philadelphia,  descendant  of  Jacob 287 

DuBois,  Peter  51 

DuBois,  Peter,  soldier  in   Dutchess  Countj^  Co.,   1715 117 

DuBois,  Peter  W.  son  of  Wilhelmus.  son  of  Mathusalem.  the  "Old 

Captain"    312 

DuBois,  Petrus,  son  of  Benjamin 307 

DuBois,  Phebe,  da.  of  Andries,  wife  of  Job  G.  Elmore 302 

DuBois,  Philip,  son  of  Hendricus 97,  311 

m.  Anna  Hue  312 

DuBois.  Philip,  son  of  Isaac  the  Patentee,  baptized 391 

m.  Esther  Gumaer 293 

DuBois,  Philip,  son  of  Jacob  G 493 

DuBois,  Philip,  son  of  Mathusalem 313 

DuBois.  Philip,  trooper  in  1715 117 

DuBois.   Capt.   R.   C.   of  Washington.   D.   C.   visits  the   home   of 

Abram  D.  B.  in  Somerset  Co..  N.J 290 

DuBois.  Rachel,  da.  of  Abm.  the  Patenee.  baptized 39 

DuBois.   Rachel,   da.   of  Abraham  2d.   m.   Isaac,   son  of   Solomon 

DuBois   289 

DuBois,  Rachel,  da.  of  Andries.  wife  of  Arthur  Doren 302 

DuBois,  Rachel,  da.  of  Hendricus.  wife  of  John  A.  Hardenburgh.  311,  457 
DuBois,  Rachel,  da.  of  Hendricus  of  Nescatack.  wife  of  Zacharias 

Freer    360 

DuBois.  Rachel,  da.  of  Louis,  son  of  Louis  J 322 

DuBois.  Rachel,  da.  of  Col.  Lewis,  wife  of  Cornelius  Low 344 

DuBois,  Rachel,  da.  of  Nathaniel,  son  of  Louis,  Jun.,  wife  of  An- 
dries LeFevre    322,  424 

DuBois,  Rachel,  da.  of  Cornelius,  wife  of  Co!.  Lewis  DuBois  of 

Alarlboro   310 

DuBois,   Rachel   Margaret,   da.   of   Lewis   4th.   wife   of  Lewis   W. 

Young    345 


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PAGE 

DuBois,  Rebecca,  da.  of  Charles 321 

DuBois,  Rebecca,  da.  of  Garret 493 

DuBois,   Rebecca,   da.   of  Henry    (Hendricus),   wife  of   Cornelius 

DuBois    313 

DuBois,  Rebecca,  da.  of  Isaac 307 

DuBois,  Robert  Patterson,  of  New  London,  Penn 317 

DuBois,,  Roelif,  son  of  Garret 493 

m.  Gertrude  LeFevre 427 

DuBois,  Samuel,  son  of  Abraham 303 

DuBois,  Samuel,  son  of  Benjamin,  m.  Jane  LeFevre 303 

DuBois.  Samuel,  m. LeFevre 438 

DuBois,  Sarah  280 

DuBois,  Sarah,  da.  of  Abraham  the  Patentee,  wife  of  Roelif  Elting  483 

DuBois,  Sarah,  da.  of  Cornelius •.  . . .  344 

wife  of  Jacob  L  Hasbrouck  of  Colebergh,  Marbletown 306,  403 

DuBois,  Sarah,  da.  of  Cornelius,  Jun.,  of  Poughwoughtenonk,  wife 

of  John  N.  LeFevre 311,  431 

DuBois,  Sarah,  da.  of  Josiah,  wife  of  Rev.  Mr.  Easton. 311 

DuBois,  Sarah,  da.  of  Solomon,  wife  of  Jacob  Hasbrouck 310 

DuBois,  Sarah,  da.  of  Solomon,  wife  of  Simon  Van  Wagenen 307 

DuBois,  Simon   299 

DuBois,  Sjmon,  of  Wallkill 268 

DuBois,  Simon,  m.  Cathirintje  LeFevre 417 

DuBois,  Simon,  son  of  Daniel,  son  of  Isaac  the  Patentee 99 

DuBois,  Simon,  son  of  Daniel 296 

m.  Catharine  LeFevre  299 

one  of  the  Duzine  299 

Constable  of  New  Paltz  300 

DuBois,  Simon,  son  of  Isaac 301 

married  twice,  2d  wife's  name Poyer 16 

DuBois,  Simon  I.,  son  of  Abraham 303 

DuBois,  Simon  L 98 

son  of  Abm 450 

DuBois.  Simon  L.,  Sr.,  son  of  Andries 319 

DuBois,  Simon  L.,  Jun.,  son  of  Simon  L.,  Sr 319 

DuBois,  Solomon  51,  61,  89,  92,  294,  383 

DuBois,  Solomon,  son  of  Benjamin 307 

DuBois,  Solomon,  son  of  Garret 493 

DuBois.  Solomon,  son  of  Hendricus 311 

soldier  in  Revolution  312 

DuBois,  Solomon,  son  of  Jacob  G 493 

DuBois,  Solomon,  son  of  Louis  ist ■ .  .280,  282,  286,  483 

m.  Tryntje  Gerritson   483 

has  land  in  New  Paltz.  Green  Co..  N.  Y..  and  Chester  Co.,  Pa..  483 

Lieutenant  in  N.  Y.  troops 307 

quit  claim  to  and  brother 309 

will  of 310 

DuBois,  Solomon,  son  of  Nathaniel  Hull  DuBois 345 

DuBois.  Stephen  G..  son  of  Charles 321 

DuBois,  Susan,  da.  of  Mathias 317 

DuBois.  Theron,  son  of  Nathaniel 344 

DuBois,  Wessel,  son  of  Jonas l 321 

DuBois,  Wessel,  son  of  Lo"is  J 321 

DuBois,  Wessel.  m.  Catharine  LeFevre 426 

DuBois,  Wilhelmus   270 


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DuBois,  Wilhelmus,  son  of  Cornelius,  Sr 310 

DuBois,  Wilhelmus,  son  of  Col.  Lewis,  m.  Marj-  Hudson 344 

DuBois,  Wilhelmus,  son  of  Mathusalem 313 

DuBois,  William,  son  of  John 344 

DuBois,  William  E.,  of  Philadelphia 317 

DuBois,  Zacharias,  son  of  Charles,  moves  to  Michigan 321 

DuBois,  Zachariah,  grandson  of  Mathusalem,  the  "Old  Captain". .  .  312 

DuBois.  Zachariah,  son  of  Nathaniel 322 

Maj  or    323 

brother  of  Col.  Lewis  DuBois,  taken  prisoner  at  Fort  Mont- 
gomery     333 

Mem.  of  his  capture  by  himself 334 

parole  of,  for  exchange 334 

exchanged   335 

DuBois, ,  da.  of  Abraham,  wife  of  Alexander  Elting 304 

DuBois, ,  da.  of  Abraham  2d,  wife  of  Roelif  Elting 289 

DuBois, ,  da.  of  Joseph  DuBois.  wife  of  Daniel  Tooker 302 

DuBois,  ,  da.  of  Joseph,  wife  of  Daniel  Bevier  of  Ireland 

Corners   303 

DuBois, ,  da.  of  Abraham,  wife  of  Mathusalem  Wurts 304 

DuBois, ,  da.  of  Abraham,  wife  of  Maurice  Hasbrouck 304 

DuBois, ,  da.  of  Jonathan,  wife  of  Benjamin  Van  Wagenen.  .  321 

DuBois, ,  da.  of  Jonathan,  wife  of  Derick  W.  Elting 321 

DuBois,  ,  da.  of  Jonathan,  wnfe  of  Alexander  Hasbrouck.  ..  321 

DuBois.  ,  wife  of  Josaphat  Hasbrouck 371 

DuBois  family,  history  of.  at  Catskill 273.  307 

DuMont.  ^Villiam   255 

Duncan.  Samuel,  m.  Elizabeth  DuBois 302 

Dusine  (Douzaine)  the,  of  New  Paltz 2.  in.  112,  261,  474 

government  by.  instituted   69 

Eager,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 394 

(Ean.  Een,  Eign,  Un,  Lan.  Yn.) 

Ean,  Abram  265 

Ean,  Abraham,  son  of  Jan 99.  476 

m.  Catharine  Van  Wagenen,  soldier  in  Revolution 477 

Ean,  Abraham,  son  of  Peter 477 

Ean.  Annetje.  da.  of  Abraham,  wife  of  Benjamin  Hasbrouck 477 

Ean,  Catharine,  da.  of  Abraham,  wife  of  Jonathan  Deyo 260,  477 

Ean,  Elias  89.  91 

m.  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Anthoine  Crispell 30,  474 

widow  of  92 

Ean,  Elias.  son  of  Abraham,  m.  Elizabeth  Hasbrouck 477 

Ean,  Elias.  son  of  Jan 476 

Ean,  Elias.  Jun.,  son  of  Elias 477 

Ean.  Elizabeth   75.  474 

Ean,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Elias,  wife  of  — Snyder 478 

Ean,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Jan 476 

Ean.  Isaac,  son  of  Jan 476 

Ean,  Jacobus,  son  of  Elias 478 

Ean.  James   477 

Ean,  Jan  75,  309 

Ean,  Jan.  son  of  Elias 474 

m.  Geesj  e  Roosa   476 

Ean.  Margaret,  da.  of  Jan 476 


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FAG> 

Ean,  Maria  Magdalen  75^  474 

Ean,  Peter '  4,  5 

Ean,  Peter,  son  of  Abraham,  m.  Maria  Freer 477 

Ean,  Rachel,  da.  of  Abraham,  wife  of  David  Deyo 275,  477 

Ean,  Sarah 75^  474 

Easton,  Rev.  Mr.,  m.  Sarah  DuBois 311 

Eckert,  Rachel,  2d  wife  of  Solomon  Elting 492 

Ellis,  Capt. 337 

Ells.  Jabez,  m.  Elsie  Hasbrouck 389 

Ellsworth,  William  96 

Elmendorf,  Blandina,  wife  of  Cornelius  Elting 487,  497 

Elmore,  Andries  E.,  of  Fort  Howard,  Wis.,  grandson  of  Andries 

DuBois 302 

Elmore,  Daniel,  m.  Maria  Vernooy  Bevier 242 

Elmore,  Job  G.,  m.  Phebe  DuBois 302 

Elting,  Eltinge,  Elten 

Elting,  Aaltje,  da.  of  Jan,  wife  of  Garret  Aertson 482 

Elting,  Abraham,  m.  Jane  Vernooy  Bevier 248 

Elting,  Abraham,  son  of  Josiah 99 

m.  I,  Dinah  DuBois 311,  487,  494 

2,  Dorothy  Bessimer 494 

Elting,  Abram,  son  of  Noah 496 

Elting,  Abraham,  son  of  Roelif 483 

Elting,  Abm.  D.  B.,  son  of  Josiah 491 

Elting,  Abm.  J.,  son  of  Josiah , 494 

Elting,  Abm.  V.  N..  son  of  Solomon 492 

m.  Elmira  Hasbrouck 400 

Elting,  Alexander,  son  of  Ezekiel 492 

m. DuBois 304 

Elting,  Andries  271-2 

Elting,  Andries,  son  of  Josiah 491 

Elting.  Blandina.  da.  of  Cornelius 497 

Elting,  Brodhead,  son  of  Roelif 493 

Elting,  Catharine,  da.  of  Ezekiel,  wife  of  Andries  Deyo 271,  492 

Elting,  Catharine,  da.  of  Josiah,  wife  of  Jacobus  Hardenburgh 487 

Elting,  Catharine,  da.  of  Roelif  J 491 

wife  of  Philip  Elting 493 

Elting.  Catharine,  wife  of  Philip  Elting 496 

Elting,  Catharine,  wife  of  Andries  Deyo 271 

Elting,  Catrina,  da.  of  Roelif 483 

Elting,  Charles,  son  of  Josiah 494 

m.  Magdalen  Bevier 248 

Elting,  Cornelia,  da.  of  Josiah,  wife  of  Peter  Deyo 271,  491 

Elting,  Rev.  Cornelius,  son  of  Cornelius,  m.  Catherine  Hardenbergh  497 

Elting,  Cornelius,  son  of  Jan,  m.  Rebecca  Van  Metten 482 

Elting,  Cornelius,  son  of  Josiah 494 

m.  Blandina  Elmendorf 487,  497 

Elting.  Cornelius  C,  son  of  Cornelius,  m.  Maria  Ann  Bevier 251 

Elting,  Daniel,  son  of  Roelif 493 

Elting,  David,  son  of  Noah 496 

Elting,  David,  son  of  Solomon _ 492 

Elting,  Derick  W.,  m.  da.  of  Jonathan  DuBois 321 

Elting,  Derick  W.,  m.  Magdalen  Elting 491 

Elting.  Dinah,  da.  of  Ezekiel,  wife  of  C.  Brodhead 492 

Elting,  Dinah,  da.  of  Philip 496 


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Elting,  Dinah,  wife  of  Roelif  Elting 492 

Elting,  Dr.  Edgar,  son  of  Abm.  J 494 

Eltinge.  Edmund 49.  61,  100,  290,  309,  314,  383.  483,  485 

Elting,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Daniel  A.  Deyo 268 

Elting,  Ezekiel 463,  494 

Elting,  Ezekiel.  son  of  Roelif  J 491,  493 

m.  Magdalen  Elting 492 

Elting,  Ezekiel,  son  of  Solomon 492 

Elting,  George,  son  of  John 492 

Elting,  Gertrude,  da.  of  Philip 496 

Elting,  Gilbert,  m.  da.  of  Dr.  Maurice  Wirtz 466 

Elting,  Gitty,  da.  of  Josiah,  wife  of  Cornelius  D.  LeFevre 491 

Elting,  Grietje,  da.  of  Jan,  wife  of  Thomas  Wall 482 

Elting,  Henry,  son  of  Abram 494,  496 

Elting,  Henry  D.,  son  of  Noah 496 

Elting,  Jacob  ': 484 

Elting,  Jacob,  son  of  Ezekiel 492 

m.  I,  Gitty  LeFevre 421 

Elting,  Jacobus,  son  of  Abram 494 

Elting,  Jacomyntje,  da.  of  Roelif 483 

wife  of  William  Codebec 484 

Elting,  Jacomyntje,  wife  of  Noah  Elting 485 

Eltinge,  Jan   12,  13,  14,  58,  109 

Elten,  Jan,  son  of  Roelif,  first  of  the  family  in  Ulster  County 481 

m.  Jacomyntj  e  Slecht 482 

Elting,  Jane,  da.  of  Abram 494 

Elting,  Jane,  da.  of  Cornelius,  wife  of  Mathew  Oliver 497 

Elting,  Jane,  da.  of  Ezekiel 492 

2d  wife  of  Solomon  P.  LeFevre 432 

Elting,  Jane,  ist  wife  of  Roelif  Hasbrouck. 27 ^ 

Elting,  Jane  V.  W.,  da.  of  Rev.  Wilhelmus,  wife  of  Augustus  Has- 
brouck     387.  497 

Elting,  Jesse ■ 29 

Elting,  Jesse,  son  of  Philip 496 

Elting,  Johannes  (John),  son  of  Roelif 483 

Elting,  John 310 

Elting,  John,  son  of  George 492 

Elting,  John,  son  of  Roelif  J.,  m.  Jane  Wurts 492 

Elting,  Joseph,  son  of  Noah 496 

Elting,  Josiah   99.  106,  299 

Elting,  Josiah,  son  of  Abram,  m.  Hester  Brodhead 494 

Elting,  Josias  or  Josiah,  son  of  Roelif 483,  484,  490,  491 

m.  Helena  DuBois  307.  310,  487 

Elting,  Josiah,  son  of  Roelif  J.,  m.  Sarah  LeFevre 491 

Elting,  Josiah.  m.  Emily  Deyo 277 

Eltinge,  Josias,  Assessor  of  New  Paltz  and  Fence  Viewer 300 

Elting,  Katie,  da.  of  Cornelius,  wife  of  Dr.  Peter  Crispell 497 

Elting,  Luther,  son  of  Abram 496 

Elting,  Magdalen,  da.  of  Josiah,  wife  of  Dcrick  W.  Elting 491 

Elting,  Magdalen,  da.  of  Philip 496 

wife  of  Andries  P.  LeFevre 432 

Elting.  Magdalen,  da.  of  Roelif  J , .  49i 

wife  of  Peter  LeFevre  442,  447,  493 

Elting,  Magdalen,  wife  of  Ezekiel  Elting 492 

Elting,  Margaret,  da.  of  Abram 494 


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559 


PAGE 

Eltinge,  Margaret,  da.  of  Roelif 483 

wife  of  Abraham  Bevier g8,  484 

Elting,  Maria,  da.  of  Cornelius,  wife  of  Louis  Bevier 233,  250,  251 

Elting,  Maria,  da.  of  Ezekiel,  wife  of  Andries  DuBois 492 

Elting,  Maria,  da.  of  Josiah,  wife,  ist,  of  Dr.  John  Bogardus ;    2d, 

of  Abm.  P.  LeFevre 491 

Elting,  Maria,  da.  of  Philip 496 

Elting,  Maria,  da.  of  Roelif  J ' 491 

wife  of  Garret  DuBois  493 

Elting,    Maria,    da.    of   Rev.    Wilhelmus,    wife   of    Cornelius    Van 

Winkle .  . .     497 

Elting,  Mathusalem,  son  of  Philip 487,  496 

Elting,  Mathusalem.  m.  Magdalen  LeFevre _. 431 

Elting,  Moses,  son  of  Philip " 496 

Elting,  Nathaniel,  m.  da.  of  Dr.  Maurice  Wirtz 466 

Eltinge,  Noah  62,  312,  383,  419 

Elting,  Philip,  son  of  Abram 487,  494 

m.  Hannah  Deyo  496 

Elting,  Noah,  son  of  Roelif 100,  483,  484,  486 

m.  Jacomyntje  Elting 485 

Eltinge,  Noah,  Collector  of  New  Paltz 300 

Elting,  Norman,  son  of  Abm.  J 494 

Elting.  Peter,  son  of  John 484 

Eltinge,   Peter,   son  of  William,   son  of  William,   son   of  Jan,   m. 

Cornelia  Wynkoop   486 

Elting,  Philip,  son  of  Abram 487,  494 

Elting,  Philip,  son  of  Noah.  m.  Catharine  Elting 493,  496 

Elting,   Philip  D 492 

Elting,  Philip  L.  F 491 

Elting,  Polly,  da.  of  Cornelius,  wife  of  David  Bevier 497 

Elting,  Rachel,  da.  of  Josiah,  wife  of  Ralph  LeFevre 443,  491 

Elting,  Rebecca,  da.  of  Philip 496 

Elting,  Dr.  Richard,  son  of  Josiah 494 

m.  Elizabeth  Hasbrouck  384 

Elting,  Roelif 51,  58,  63,  92,  106,  362 

Eltinge.  Roelif,  deed  to,  from  Solomon  DuBois  and  Louis  Du- 
Bois, Jun 314 

Elting,  Roelif,  son  of  Abraham 484 

Elting,  Roelif,  son  of  Jan 482.  484 

m.  Sarah,  da.  of  Abraham  DuBois , 289,  483 

Elting,  Roelif,  son  of  Josiah 491 

Elting,  Roelif,  son  of  Roelif  J.,  m.  Dinah  Elting 492 

Elting.  Roelif,  son  of  Solomon 492 

Elting,  Roelif,  m.  Blandina  LeFevre 428 

Elting,  Roelif.  soldier  in  Kingston  Comp.  1715 117 

Elting,  Roelif  J.,  son  of  Josias 99 

m.  Maria  Low 469.  4^7.  49i 

Elting,  Roelif  S..  m.  Catharine  LeFevre 421 

Elting,  Sarah,  da.  of  Ezekiel 492 

Elting,  Sarah,  da.  of  Noah,  wife  of  Dirck  Wynkoop 485.  486 

Elting.  Sarah,  da.  of  Roelif  J 49i 

wife  of  William  Deyo 493 

Elting.  Solomon,  son  of  Cornelius 497 

Elting,  Solomon,  son  of  Ezekiel 492 

Elting.  Solomon,  son  of  Josiah 487 


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PAGE 

Elting,  Solomon,  son  of  Roelif  J 491 

m.  I,  Cornelia  LeFevre ;  2,  Rachel  Eckert 492 

Elting.  Solomon,  son  of  Solomon 492 

Elting,  Solomon,  m.  Cornelia  LeFevre 426 

Elting,  Sol.  L.  F.,  son  of  Mathusalem 100.  487,  494,  496 

Elting,  Tobias,  son  of  Solomon 492 

Elting,  Watson 494 

Elting,  Rev.  Wilhelmus,  son  of  Cornelius,  m.  Jane  Houseman 497 

Elting,  William,  son  of  Jan,  m.  Jane  LeSaeur 482 

Elting,  William,  soldier  in  Kingston  Co.  1715 117 

Elting, ,  da.  of  John  Elting,  wife  of  Thomas  Deyo 278 

Eltings  of  Hurley 497 

English,  Lieut.  Samuel  331 

Erwin,  James  501 

Esterly,  Linus,  m.  Rebecca  Hasbrouck 389 

Evans,  Capt.  John  61,  62,  485 

Evertson,  Nicholas,  m.  Clara  Hasbrouck  392 

Ferree,  Catharine,  wife  of  Isaac  LeFevre  of  Penna 408 

Ferree,  Madame  408 

Ferrie,  Philip,  of  Lancaster  Co.,  Penna..  m.  Leah  DuBois 289 

Ferris,  Julia,  da.  of  Nathaniel  Hull  DuBois 345 

Fletcher.  Governor   61 

Field,  Phebe.  wife  of  Jonathan  Hasbrouck 392 

Fontaine,  John   257 

(Freer,  Frere,  Frear.) 

Freer.  Abraham,  son  of  Hugo  the  Patentee..  10,  52,  89,  91,  92,  349,  351.  358 

m.  Haignies  ( ?Agnes)  Titesorte  4i>  363.  527 

Freer,  Abraham.  Jun.,  son  of  Abraham. 363 

m.  I,  Janitje  Degrafif ;   2,  Johanna  Louis 364 

Freer,  Abraham,  son  of  Jacob 364 

Freer,  Abraham,  son  of  William 363 

Freer,  Agatha,  wife  of  Isaac  Deyo 275 

Freer,  Annetje,  da.  of  Jacob 365 

Freer,  Lieut.  Anthony  350 

Freer,  Antje,  wife  of  Jacobus  Bevier 243,  246 

Freer,  Benjamin  265 

Freer,  Benjamin,  son  of  Hugo,  Sr 527 

Freer,  Benj  amin,  son  of  Hugo,  Jun 98 

Freer.  Benjamin,  son  of  Hugo,  Jun..  m.  Elizabeth  Terwilliger 359 

Freer,  Benjamin,  son  of  William 364 

Freer,  Benjamin  I loo 

Freer,  Blondini  (Blandina),  da.  of  Gerrit  J 365 

Freer,  Catharine,  da.  of  Hugo,  2d  wife  of  Isaac  Van  Wagenen 3S3 

Freer.  Catharine,  wife  of  Jonathan  LeFevre 420,  422 

Freer,  Charles 301 

Freer,  Cornelia,  da.  of  Gerrit  J 3o5 

Freer,  Cornells,  son  of  Jacob 3^4 

Freer.  Daniel,  son  of  Isaac  ist,  m.  Annitje  Deyo 360 

Lieut.  .3d  Ulster  County  Regiment 350.  360 

Freer.  Daniel,  son  of  Jacob 364 

Freer.  Daniel,  Jun •  •  •  • 3do 

Freer,  Dinah,  da.  of  Hugo  2d,  wife  of  Michael  Van  Kleeck 353 

Freer.  Elias,  son  of  Jonas  2d 361.  363 

Freer,  Elias.  son  of  John  J 303 


INDEX  561 

PAGE 

Freer,  Elisa  (Elias),  son  of  Jonas  ist 361 

Freer,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Hugo  2d 353,  527 

Freer,  Esther,  da.  of  Hugo  2d, 42,  527 

wife  of  John  Terpening 353 

Freer,  Ezekiel,  of  Grahow 359 

Freer,  Garret,  son  of  Hugo  3d 98 

Freer,  Garret,  son  of  Hugo,  Jun.,  m.  Maria  Freer 359 

Freer,  Garret,  Jun 359 

Freer,  Gerrett,  soldier  Kingston  Co.  1738 118 

Freer,  Gerrit,  son  of  Jean,  m.  Elizabeth  Van  Vliet 365 

Freer,  Gerritt  J.,  son  of  Jacob,  m.  Gertje  Van  Vliet 365 

Freer,  Henry  D.  B.,  son  of  Zacharias 313,  360 

Frere,  Hugo 106,  309 

Frere,  Hugo,  the  Patentee,  ist.  .• 10,  13,  15,  2)7,  5i>  52,  58,  61 

Freer,  Hugo,  ist  or  the  Patentee,  m.  i,  Mary  Haye 349,  509 

2,  Jannetje  Wibau 351,  527 

Frere,  Hugo  ist,  wife  of,  dies 41 

Freer,  Hugo,  2d  or  Sr 10,  50-2,  61,  75,  8g,  92,  349,  351,  527 

Frere,  Hugo,  2d,  m.  Mary  Ann  LeRoy 39,  352,  356,  527 

Freer,  Hugo,  Sr.,  deed  from,  to  his  children 353,  356 

will  of  358 

Freer,  Hugo,  3d  or  Jun.,  son  of  Hugo  2d 

40,  61,  75.  91,  92,  98,  352,  353.  504,  509 

Freer,  Hugo.  Jun.,  m.  Bridget  Terpening 358 

Freer,  Hugo,  4th,  son  of  Hugo,  Jun 98 

Freer,  Hugo,  4th,  son  of  Hugo,  Jun.,  m. Van  Aken 359 

Freer,  Hugo  Ab..  son  of  Abraham,  m.  Marytje  Dewitt 363 

Freer,  Hugo  B.,  son  of  Hugo  4th 359 

Freer,  Isaac loi,  106 

Freer,  Isaac,  son  of  Hugo  ist,  the  Patentee.  . .  .10,  61,  261,  349,  351,  509 

dies  young   40,  352 

Freer,  Isaac,  son  of  Hugo,  2d  or  Sr 41,  352,  353 

Freer,  Isaac,  ist,  son  of  Hugo  2d 527 

m.  Mary  Deyo 358 

in  Capt.  Hoffman's  Co 360 

Freer,  Isaac,  2d,  son  of  Isaac  ist,  m.  Hester  Jansen 360 

Freer,  Isaac,  3d,  son  of  Isaac  2d 360 

Freer,  Isaac,  son  of  Jacob 364 

Freer,  Isaac,  son  of  Zacharias 360 

Freer,  Isaac,  Fence  Viewer,  New  Paltz 300 

Freer.  Jacob  106 

Freer,  Jacob,  son  of  Hugo  ist.  the  Patentee 58,  75,  89,  91  ■  92.  3S8 

Freer,  Jacob,   son  of  Hugo  the  Patentee,  m.  Aritje  Van  Wagen 

(Weycn)    364.  -S27 

Freer,  Jacob,  son  of  Hugo,  2d  or  Sr 352 

Freer,  Jacob,  son  of  Jean,  m.  Annitje  Van  Aken 365 

Freer.  Jacob,  son  of  Jacob,  son  of  Jean 365 

Freer,  Jacob,  son  of  William 363 

Freer.  Jacob.  Jun..  son  of  Jacob,  m.  Sarah  Freer. 364 

Freer,  Jacob  J 364 

Freer,  Capt  Jacobus 350 

Freer,  Jan  (John) .  son  of  Gerrit  J 365 

writes  his  name  "John  G." ,366 

m.  Dina  Rose  36f> 

Freer.  Jan.  eon  of  Jacob ?P3 


562  INDEX 

PAGE 

Freer,  Jan,  soldier  in  Kingston  Conip.  1715 117 

Freer,  Jan,  soldier  Ulster  County  Militia  1738 118 

Freer,  Janitje,  da.  of  Hugo  2d 353,  527 

Freer,  Janitje,  wife  of  Jacobus  Deyo 2G0,  261 

Freer,  Jannitje,  da.  6f  Jean 365 

Freer,  Jean,  son  of  Hugo  the  Patentee 52,  352,  358 

m.  Rebecca  Van  Wagenen .365,  527 

Freer,  Johannes,  son  of  Solomon,  m.  Hester  Lounsberry 363 

Freer,  Johannes,  son  of  Zacharias 360 

Freer,  Johannes,  Jun.,   son  of  Jonas   ist,   m.   Sarah,   da.  of  Abm. 

Bevier    247.  361 

Freer,  Col.  John 350 

Freer,  John,  son  of  Abraham,  Jun.,  Colonel  4th  Dutchess  County 

Regiment   364 

Freer,  John,  son  of  Hugo,  Jun 98 

Freer,  John,  son  of  Hugo,  Jun.,  m.  Hagetta  Deyo 359 

Freer,  John  G.,  son  of  Gerrit,  son  of  Jacob 365 

Freer,  John  J.,  son  of  Johannes,  soldier  in  Revolution 363 

Freer.  Jonas  53-  92.  106 

Freer,  Jonas,  son  of  Hugo  2d 98,  353,  354 

Freer,  Jonah,  son  of  Hugo  2d,  m.  Catherine  Stokhard 358,  361 

will  of 361 

Freer,  Jonas,  2d,  son  of  Jonas  ist 361 

Freer,  Jonas,  m.  Magdalen  Bevier 246 

Freer  Jonathan 35 1 

Freer,  Jonathan,  Jun.,  son  of  Jonas  2d 363 

Ft'eer,  Joseph   loi 

Freer.  Joshua,  son  of  Jonas  2d 363 

Freer,  Lidia,  da.  of  Gerrit  J 365 

Freer,  Magdalen,  wife  of  Christian  Bevier 247 

Freer,  Maria,  da.  of  Hugo,  Sr 41 

wife  of  Isaac  LeFevre. 353,  4IS,  433 

Freer.  Maria,  da.  of  Zacharia 360 

Freer,  Maria,  wife  of  Abraham  A.  Bevier 244,  246 

Freer,  Maria,  wife  of  Peter  Ean 477 

Freer,  Maria,  wife  of  Garret  Freer 359 

Freer,  Martins,  son  of  Johannes.  Jun 361 

m.  Maria  Deyo  260 

Freer,  Mary,  da.  of  Hugo  the  Patentee 10 

wife  of  Lewis  Viele 352,  527 

Freer,  Marytje,  da.  of  Jean 365 

Freer,  Nathan  M 363 

Frere,  Nelletic.  da.  of  Abram 41 

Freer,  Peter,  son  of  Jacob 365 

Freer,  Peter,  m.  Anna  DuBois 303 

Freer,  Peter,  W.  A.,  son  of  Elias 361 

Freer,  Petrus,  son  of  Jonas  ist 361 

Freer,  Philip,  son  of  Abraham 363 

m.  Catharine  Scharp  364 

Freer,  Rachel,  da.  of  Hugo  2d,  wife  of  Hendrick  Ter  Boss 353 

Freer!  Rebecca,  da.  of  Hugo,  Sr.,  wife  of  Johannes  M.  Low 353,  469 

Freer,  Romeo  H 260,  361 

Freer.  Samuel,  editor  Kingston  Gazette 350 

Freer,  Sarah,  da.  of  Hugo  ist.  apprenticed  to  a  dressmaker 31 

Freer'   Sarah'    da.  of  Hugo  the  Patentee,  wife  of  Teunis  Clausen 

Van  Volgen   352.  527 


INDEX  563 


PAGE 


Freer,  Sarah,  da.  of  Hugo  2d,  wife  of  Evert  Terwilliger. 353 

Freer,  Sara,  da.  of  Jean ' 365 

Freer,  Sarah,  wife  of  Jacob  Freer,  Jun 364 

Freer,  S.  C.  Paine 363 

Freer,  Selitje,  da.  of  Gerrit  J 365 

Freer,  Simeon,  son  of  Jonas  2d 363 

Freer,  Simon,  son  of  Hugo  2d 352,  353 

m.  Mariten  Wamboon   359 

Freer,  Simon,  son  of  Jonas  ist 361 

Frere,  Solomon,  son  of  Abraham  and  wife  Achsah 41-2 

Freer,  Solomon,  son  Abraham,  m.  Claritje  Westvaal 363,  528 

Freer.  Solomon,  soldier  Kinp^ston  Co,,  1738 118 

Freer,  Stephen,  son  of  Elias 361 

Freer,  Thomas 6r,  360 

Freer,  Thomas,  son  of  Abraham,  Jun 364 

Freer,  Thomas,  son  of  Isaac  2d 360 

Freer,  Thomas,  son  of  Zacharias 360 

Freer,  William,  son  of  Abraham,  m.  Maryanette  Van  Kuykendall.  .  363 

Freer,  William,  son  of  Gerritt 365 

Freer,  William,  son  of  Gerrit  J 365 

Freer,  Z.,  m.  Jane  DuBois 313 

Freer,  Capt.  Zachary 350 

Freer.  Zacharias,  son  of  Isaac  2d.  m.  Rachel  DuBois 360 

Captain  in  War  of  1812 360 

Freer,  wife  of  Abram  Deyo 279 

Freer, ,  wife  of  Abm.  P.  Schoonmaker 363 

Freer,  ,  wife  of  Philip  Schoonmaker 363 

Freer.  ,  wife  of  Archa  P.  Van  Wagenen 363 

Freligh.  Rev.  Peter  D 157 

Frelinghuysen,  Rev.  John,  widow  of,  m.  Jacob  Rutze  Hardenbergh  460 

Frelinghuysen.  Rev.  Theodorus    145 

Freyenmoct,  Rev.  Casparus 143 

Furman,  Lieut.  John  331 

taken  prisoner  at  Fort  Montgomery 332 

Galespie,  Capt. 337 

Gano,  Lieut.  Daniel   328 

resigns   329 

Gano,  John,  Chaplain   330 

letter  from  333 

Garland.  Thomas   422.  423 

Garland.  Patent  62,  266 

Gerritson.  Jacob  482 

Gerritson.  Tryntje.  wife  of  Solomon  DuBois 305 

Gier.  Sally,  wife  of  David  Bevier 234,  235 

Gilbert,  Ebenezer  96 

Gillett.  Silas   m.  Sarah  Vernooy  Bevier 242 

Giron.  Jean  (John),  of  Quebec,  letter  from,  to  Hugo  Freer,  Sr.  and 

wife    354. 

from  Crcance,  France 357 

m.  Madeline  des  Chalets 357 

Goddard,  Adeline,  da.  of  William  C 345 

Goddard.  Edward,  son  of  William  C ^d<^ 

Goddard.  Emily,  da.  of  William  C 345 

Goddard.  William,  son  of  William  C .^45 

Goddard.  William  C.  m.  Melissa  DuBois 343 


564  INDEX 

PAGX 

Goetschius,  Rev.  J.  H 144 

Goetschius,  Rev.  Jobs.  Mauritius i47 

Goetschius,  Rev.  Maurice,  the  Doctor-Dominie 95,  100,  464 

Goetschius,  Rev.  Stephen   464 

Goetschius,  Rev.  Stephen,  m.  EHzabeth  DuBois 322 

Goetschius, ,  m.  Harriet  Schoonmaker 500 

Goforth,  Major  WiUiam 328 

Gonsauhis,  Manuel,  in.  Sarah  Bevier 237 

Goodwin,  Capt.  Henry 22>^ 

taken  prisoner  at  Fort  Montgomery 332 

Gosman,  Robert,  m.  Maria  Hasbrouck 384 

Graham,  James    61,  309,  376 

Gray,  Oliver 96 

Green,  Martha,  wife  of  John  Bevier 234,  235 

Gregg,  Lieut.  James 328 

Griffen,  Joseph  95 

Griffen,  Elenor,  wife  of  Solomon  Bevier 244,  245 

Griffin,  Martynes  265 

Gross,  Samuel  E.,  of  Chicago,  a  descendant  of  Isaac  DuBois 307 

Gryn,  Richard 261 

(Guimar,  Gumaer.) 

Guimar,  Peter,  of  Moir,  Saintonge,  France 40 

Guimar,  Peter,  son  of  Peter,  m.  Esther,  da.  of  Jean  Hasbrouck. .  . . 

I,  40,  254,  400 

Gumaer,  Peter,  of  Minnisinck,  m.  Esther  DuBois 293 

Gumaer,  Peter  507 

Hagnette. ,  godmother  41 

Hall,  ,  Sheriff 14 

Hallock,  Arabella,  wife  of  Daniel  A.  Deyo 268 

Hamtramk,  Capt. 2>2>7 

Hamtramk,  Capt.  John  F 331-  342 

Hanmer,  Lieut.  Francis ?,2i'^ 

Ensign    342 

(Hardenberg,  Hardenburgh.) 

Hardenbergh.  Abraham 97,  109 

Hardenbergh,   Abraham,  son  of  Johannes,  m.  i,  Marytje  Roosa; 

2,  Mary  Hasbrouck 456 

Hardenbergh,  Abraham,  grandson  of  Abraham 97 

Hardenbergh,  Abraham,  elected  Supervisor  of  New  Paltz 300 

Hardenburgh,  Abm.  J.,  of  Guilford  and  Shawangunk,  son  of  John  A.  457 

m.  Margaret  DuBois   311.  458 

Colonel  in  r8i2 458 

Hardenbergh,  Alexander,  son  of  John  A 457.  458 

Hardenburgh,  Benjamin   448 

Hardenbergh,  Benjamin  F 463 

Hardenbergh,  Catharine,  da.  of  Col.  Johannes 461 

Hardenbergh,  Catharine,  wife  of  Nathaniel  Deyo 269 

Hardenbergh,   Catharine,   da.   of  Jacobus,   wife  of  Rev.   Cornelius 

Elting    407 

Hardenbergh,  Charles,  son  of  Abraham  J 458,  460 

Hardenbergh,  Charles,  son  of  John  A 457.  458 

Hardenbergh,  Charles,  son  of  Johannes,  Jun 463 

Hardenbergh,  Charles,  son  of  Col.  Johannes,  m.  Catharine  Smedes.  460 

Hardenburgh,  Charles,  m. LeFevre 438 


INDEX  565 

PACK 

Hardenbergh,  Cornelia,  wife  of  Mathew  Bevier 240 

Hardenbergh,  David,  son  of  Abraham  J 458,  460 

Hardenbergh,  Ditmas,  son  of  Abraham  J 458,  460 

Hardenbergh,  Ehas,  son  of  Abraham 457 

Hardenbergh,  Gerardus,  son  of  Col.  Johannes,  m.  Nancy  Ryerson.  .     461 

Hardenbergh,  Gerrit  Jans,  m.  Jeapie  Schepmoes 455 

Hardenbergh,  Gertrude,  da.  of  Abraham  J.,  wife  of  Aldert  Schoon- 

maker    458 

Hardenbergh,  Isaac,  son  of  Johannes,  Jun 463 

Hardenbergh,  Jacob,  son  of  Jacob 458 

Hardenbergh,  Jacob,  son  of  John  A 457 

m.  Jane  DuBois 458 

Hardenbergh,  Jacob,  son  of  Richard » 29,  463 

State  Senator 266 

Hardenburgh,  Jacob,  m.  Jane  DuBois 311 

Hardenbergh,  Jacob,  grandson  of  Abraham 97 

Hardenbergh,  Jacobus,  m.  Catharine  Elting 487 

Hardenbergh,  Jacob  Rutze,  son  of  Col.  Johannes,  m.  Dinah  Van 

Bergh,  widow  of  Rev.  John  Frelinghuysen 460 

First  President  of  Rutgers  College 461 

Hardenbergh,  Johannes  318,  504 

Hardenburgh,  Col.  Johannis 373 

Hardenbergh,  Johannes,  son  of  Gerrit  Jans 455 

Colonel  Ulster  County  Regiment;    m.  Catherine  Rutzen;    re- 
ceives Hardenbergh  Patent 456 

Hardenbergh,  Sir  Johannes,  knighted  by  Queen  Ann 455 

Hardenbergh,  Johannes,  of  Rosendale,  son  of  Col.  Johannes  ist.  ..     450 

Colonel  Ulster  County  Regiment 460 

m.  Maria  DuBois 314,  460 

Hardenbergh,  Johannes,  Jun  109 

Hardenbergh.  Lieut.-Col.  Johannis,  Jun 327 

Hardenbergh,  Johannes,  Jun.,  son  of  Col.  Johannes 460 

m.  Mary  LeFevre ;    Lieut.-Col.  4th  Ulster  County  Regiment; 

Sojourner  Truth,  slave  of .435,  461 

Hardenberg.  Johannes,  or  John,  A.,  son  of  Abraham,  Captain  in 

Revolution,  m.  Rachel  DuBois 457 

Hardenburgh,  John 63 

Hardenbergh,  John,  son  of  Louis 463 

Hardenburgh,  Capt.  John  A 124 

m.  Rachel  DuBois  311 

Hardenbergh,  John  Charles 268 

Hardenbergh,  John  L..  m.  i,  Maria  Bevier;   2,  Martha  Brinkerhoflf.     237 

Hardenbergh,  Josiah,  son  of  Abraham  J 4S8,  463 

Hardenbergh,  Lewis,  son  of  Col.  Johannes,  m.  Catharine  Waldron.     460 

Hardenbergh,  Lewis,  son  of  Johannes,  Jun 463 

Hardenbergh,  Louis,  son  of  Richard 463 

Hardenbergh,  Margaret,  ist  wife  of  Jacob  Hasbrouck,  Jun 402 

Hardenbergh,  Marichie,  da.  of  John  A 457 

Hardenbergh,  Maritje.  da.  of  Abraham 457 

Hardenbergh,  Mary,  da.  of  John  Charles,  wife  of  Jonathan  Deyo.  .     268 

Hardenbergh,  Mary,  wife  of  John  P.  LeFevre 438,  448 

Hardenbergh,  Nicholas,  son  of  Abraham 457 

Hardenbergh.  Peter,  son  of  Johannes,  Jun 463 

Hardenbergh,  Rachel,  da.  of  Abraham 457 

Hardenbergh,  Rachel,  da.  of  Jacob,  wife  of  Crines  Jenkms 97,  458 


566 


INDEX 


PAG« 


Hardenbergh.  Rachel,  da.  of  Col.  Johannes,  wife  of  Rev.  Herman 

Myer   461 

Hardenbergh,  Richard 266,  386 

Hardenbergh,  Richard,  son  of  Louis 463 

Hardenbergh,  Simon,  son  of  Louis 463 

Hardenburgh,  Thomas  R.,  m.  Rachel  Bevier 250-1 

Harris,  Emily,  da.  of  Samuel 345 

Harris,  Francis,  son  of  Samuel 345 

Harris,  Gars 14 

Harris,  Ida,  da.  of  Samuel 345 

Harris,  Jessie,  da.  of  Samuel 345 

Harris,  Joseph,  m.  Laura  Budd 454 

Harris,  Samuel,  m.  Amanda  DuBois 345 

Harris,  William,  son  of  Samuel 345 

(Ha.sbrouck,  Hasbroucq,  Broecq,  Horsbrook,  Hasbrocq,  Assebrouck) 

Hasbrouck,  Abel,  son  of  Joseph  L,  m.  Ruth  Winfield 387 

Hasbrouck,  Abner.  son  of  Col.  Joe 385 

m.  Pamela  DuBois 311 

Hasbrouck,  Abraham,  the  Patentee 

10,  13.  15.  19.  52,  56,  61,  62,  89,  91,  92.  256,  362,  509 

Hasbrouck,   Abraham,   the    Patentee,   m.    Maria,    da.   of   Christian 

Deyo II,  369 

Captain  New  Paltz  Foot  Co 368 

Hasbrouck,  Abm.  2d 99 

Ha.sbrouck,  Abraham,  son  of  Benjamin ^y^ 

Hasbrouck,  Abraham,  son  of  Francis 394 

Hasbrouck,  Abraham,  son  of  Jacob  1 404 

Hasbrouck,  Abraham,  son  of  Jean,  the  patentee,  goes  to  live  in  Eng- 
land    400 

Hasbrouck,  Abraham,  son  of  Gen.  Joe,  m.  Helena  Jansen 384 

called  A.  B.  of  the  Strand 384 

Hasbrouck,  Abraham,  son  of  Col.  Jonathan 391 

Hasbrouck,  Abram,  son  of  Petrus.  m.  Mary  Blanshan 373 

Hasbrouck.  Abraham.  Jun.,  son  of  Solomon,  m.  Rachel  Sleight.  .  .  .  2)72 

Hasbrouck,  Abm.  M.,  gt.  gr.  son  of  Jacob.  Jun 401 

Hasbrouck.  Col.  Abraham,  son  of  Joseph 97.  376.  380,  485 

Hasbrouck,  Col.  Abraham,  m.  Catharina  Bruyn 381,  382 

Hasbrouck,  Col.  Abm 53 

diary  of,  in  possession  of  his  great  grand  da..  Mrs.  George  H. 

Sharpe 369,  382,  391 

Hasbrouck.  Abraham,  Capt.,  New  Paltz  Foot  Co 117 

Ha.sbrouck,  Abm.,  Mary  Blanshan,  widow  of,  m.  Daniel  Le  Fevre.  .  442 

Hasbrouck,  A.  Bruyn,  son  of  Jonathan 383 

Hasbrouck,  Albina,  da.  of  Jacob,  Jun 402 

Hasbrouck,  Dr.  Alfred,  son  of  Col.  Joe 385 

Hasbrouck,  Alexander,  son  of  Benjamin  1 404 

Hasbrouck,  Alexander,  son  of  Solomon 450 

Hasbrouck,  Alexander,  m.  da.  of  Jonathan  Du  Bois 321 

Hasbrouck,  Andrew,  son  of  John 375 

Hasbrouck.  Andries.  son  of  Josaphat,  m.  Elizabeth  Hasbrouck.  371 

Hasbrouck.  Anitje,  da.  of  Jacob  A 388 

Hasbrouck,  Anna  Chittenden,  da.  of  Jacob  I.,  Jun 404 

Hasbrouck.   Annie  Ingraham,  da.  of  Jacob  I.,  Jun 404 

Hasbrouck.  .A.sa.  son  of  Daniel 392 

Hasbrouck.  Asenath,  da.  of  Jacob.  Jun 402 


INDEX  567 

PAGE 

Hasbrouck,  Augustus,  son  of  Joseph  I.,  m.  Jane  \'.  W.  Elling. 

: 387.  497 

Hasbrouck,  Benj.,  ni.  Annetje  Ean 477 

Hasbrouck,   Benjamin,  son  of  Abram,  the  Patentee,  baptized.  .       41 

m.  Jannitje  De  Long 369,  394 

Hasbrouck,  Benjamin,  son  of  Benjamin 394 

m.  Elizabeth  Dickerson,  da.  of  William 389 

Hasbrouck,  Benjamin,  son  of  Daniel,  m.  i.  Anitje  Bevier 246 

2  Marie  Bevier 247.  372 

Hasbrouck,   Benjamin,  son  of  Daniel,  ni.  Hannah  Green 394 

Hasbrouck.   Benjamin,  son  of  Francis 394 

soldier  in  Revolution,  m.  Rachel  Storm 395 

Hasbrouck,   Benjamin,  son  of  Jacob 400 

Hasbrouck,   Benjamin,  son  of  Jacobus ^7^ 

Hasbrouck,  Benjamin,  son  of  Jonathan 98 

Hasbrouck,   Benjamin,   son   of  Joseph,   son  of   Abraham   the   Pat- 
entee, m.  Elidia  Schoonmaker  381.  389 

Hasbrouck,  Benj.  C.  son  of  Cornelius,  m.  Louise  Lyon 389 

Hasbrouck,   Benjamin  L,  son  of  Isaac 403 

m.  I,  Catrina  Smedes ;   2,  Rachel  Hasbrouck 404 

Hasbrouck,  Betsey,  da.  of  Daniel,  wife  of  Edward  Wait 392 

Hasbrouck,  Blandina,  da.  of  Wm.  C 390 

Hasbrouck,  Calvin,  son  of  Joseph 388 

Hasbrouck,  Caroline,  da.  of  Benjamin 395 

Hasbrouck.  Catharine,  da.  of  Abr.  of  the  Strand,  wife  of  Judge 

G.  W.  Ludlum  384 

Hasbrouck.  Catharine,  da.  of  Benjamin,  wife  of  William  John- 
son    389,  395 

Hasbrouck,  Catharine,  da.  of  Isaac 403 

Hasbrouck   Catharine,   da.   of  Jacobus   B.,   wife   of  Joseph   Be- 

A'ier    250,  252 

Hasbrouck,  Catharine,  da.  of  Joseph  I.,  wife  of  Samuel  Johnson     387 
Hasbrouck,  Catharine  Ann,  da.  of  Joseph,  wife  of  Halsey  Lyon.  .  .     389 

Hasbrouck,  Catharine,  da.  of  Roelif,  wife  of  Jacob  Rose 37;^ 

Hasbrouck,  Charles  B.,  son  of  Roelif :^73 

Hasbrouck,  Charles  H.,  son  of  Eli 392 

Hasbrouck,  Charlotte,  da.  of  Isaac  S ., 406 

Hasbrouck,  Clara,  da.  of  Daniel,  wife  o'f  Nicholas  Evertson 392 

Hasbrouck,  Clinton,  son  of  Roelif 373 

m.  Eliza  LeFevre   421 

Hasbrouck,  Cornelia,  da.  of  Samuel .^ 373 

Hasbrouck.  Cornelius,  son  of  Benjamin  ist,  m.  Jane  Kelso 389 

Hasbrouck,  Dr.  Cornelius  D.,  son  of  Jacob  1 306,  404 

m.  Hannah  Van  Wagenen 403 

Hasbrouck,  Cornelius,  son  of  Joseph 381 

Hasbrouck,  Cornelius,  son  of  Col.  Jonathan,  a  Royalist 392 

Hasbrouck,  Cyrus,  son  of  Jacob  T..  Jun..  killed  in  Civil  War.  .  .      404 

Hasbrouck,  Daniel   • 75.   106,  353 

trooper  in  1715  ^^7 

soldier  Ulster  County  Militia  1738 "8 

Hasbrouck,  Daniel,  son  of  Abm.  the  Patentee 30-   100,  411 

Hasbrouck,  Daniel,  son  of  Col.  Abraham 383 

m.  cousin  Rachel  Hasbrouck 392 

Hasbrouck,  Daniel,  son  of  Benjamin,  m.  Van  Vlecken.  .      394 

Hasbrouck.  Daniel,  son  of  Daniel 394 


568  INDEX 


PAGE 


Hasbrouck,  Daniel,  son  of  Elias  374 

Hasbrouck,  Daniel,  son  of  Montgomery 374 

Hasbrouck,  Daniel,  son  of  Jonas,  m.  Margaret  Schoonmaker.  .  371 

Hasbrouck,  Daniel,  son  of  Solomon ^72 

Hasbrouck,  Daniel  . ; 60.  299.  309,  316.  370 

m.  Wyntje  Deyo  ^ 261,  369 

Hasbrouck,  Daniel  A.,  great-grandson  of  Josaphat.  .  .  . '. 371 

Hasbrouck,  Daniel  B.,  son  of  Benjamin 372 

Hasbrouck,  Daniel  1 271 

son  of  Isaiah  ;^7^ 

Hasbrouck,  David,  son  of  Daniel 370 

m.  Maritje  Houghland 372 

Hasbrouck,  David,  son  of  Gen.  Joe 384 

Hasbrouck,  DeWitt,  son  of  Roelif t,7?> 

Hasbrouck,  Dinah,  da.  of  Roelif,  wife  of  Jonathan  LeFevre...  2>72) 

Hasbrouck,  DuBois,  son  of  Jacob,  Jun 402 

Hasbrouck,  DuBois,  son  of  Josiah 403 

JHasbrouck,  Edgar,  son  of  Isaac  S 406 

m.  Jane  Bevier 251 

Hasbrouck,  Eli,  son  of  Isaac,  m.  Harriet  Belknap 392 

Hasbrouck,  Elias,  son  of  Elias 374 

Hasbrouck,  Elias,  son  of  Solomon 372 

Captain  in  Revolution   374 

m.  Elizabeth  Sleight  374 

Hasbrouck,  Eliza,  da.  of  Benjamin,  wife  of  Stephen  Ronk 3S9 

Hasbrouck,  Eliza,  da.  of  Dr.  Cornelius  D.,  wife  of  Peter  Barn- 
hart   403 

Hasbrouck,   Elizabeth,  da.  of  Abr.  of  the   Strand,  wife  of  Dr. 

Richard  Elting 384 

Hasbrouck,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Benjamin 39S 

Hasbrouck,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Jean  the  Patentee 3§ 

wife  of  Louis  Bevier 226.  400 

Hasbrouck,   Elizabeth,  da.  of  Col.  Josiah,  wife  of  Josiah   Du- 
Bois     311,  40T 

Hasbrouck,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Louis  Bevier 233,  249 

Hasbrouck,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Elias  Ean 477 

Hasbrouck,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Andries  Hasbrouck 371 

Hasbrouck,  Ellsje   6t 

widow  of  Joseph,  deed  from,  to  her  son,  Jacob  A 388 

Hasbrouck,  Elmira,  da.  of  Henry  C,  wife  of  Abr.  V.  N.  Elting.  406 

Hasbrouck,  Elsie,  da.  of  Benjamin,  wife  of  Jabez  Ells 389 

Hasbrouck.  Elsie,  da.  of  Daniel,  son  of  Abraham  the  Patentee, 

wife  of  Peter  Smedes 370 

Hasbrouck,  Elsie,  da.  of  Daniel,  wife  of  Hornbeck 392 

Hasbrouck,  Elsie,  da.  of  Isaac 386 

Hasbrouck,  Elsie,  da.  of  Jacob  A 388 

Hasbrouck,  Elsie,  da.  of  Isaiah 371 

Hasbrouck,  Emily  A.,  da.  of  William  C 390 

Hasbrouck,  Esther,  da.  of  Isaac 403 

Hasbrouck.   Esther,   da.   of  INTajor  Jacob,   wife   of  Dr.   George 

Wirtz   fWurts)    401.  464 

Hasbrouck.  Esther,  da.  of  Jean  the  Patentee 10,  516 

wife  of  Peter  Guimar i.  254,  400 

Hasbrouck.  Evert,  son  of  Philip 375 

Hasbrouck,  Ezekiel.  son  of  Isaiah 371 


INDEX  569 

PAGE 

Hasbrouck,    Francis,    son    of    Benjamin,    m.    Elizabeth    Swart- 

wout 394.  395 

Hasbrouck,  Frank   ^55 

Hasbrouck,  George,  son  of  Joseph  I.,  m.  Maria  Johnson 3o7 

Hasbrouck,  Gilbert,  son  of  Francis 394 

Hasbrouck,  Gross,  grandson  of  Captain  John 405 

Hasbrouck,  Heiltje,  da.  of  Benjamin 394 

Hasbrouck,  Helena,  da.  of  Abr.  of  the  Strand,  wife  of  Henry 

Sharpe    • 3»4 

Hasbrouck,  Henry  C,  son  of  Severyn.  m.  Nancy  Barnes 400 

Hasbrouck,  Henry  C,  son  of  William  C ■ 3«9 

Lieut.-Col.  U.  S.  A.  and  Brig.-Gen.  in  war  with  Spain 390 

Hasbrouck,  Henry  H.,  son  of  Benjamin,  m.  Ruth  Constable.  .  .  309 

Hasbrouck,  Hiram,  son  of  Dr.  Cornelius  D 403 

Hasbrouck,  Huram,  son  of  Jacob  J.,  Jmi. 402 

Hasbrouck,  Isaac,  son  of  Benjamin 395 

m.  Delia  Newman  3o9 

Hasbrouck,  Isaac,  son  of  Daniel,  m.  Maria  Bevier 244 

Hasbrouck,  Isaac,  son  of  Jacob,  son  of  Jean  the  Patentee .3^7 

m.  Maria  Bruyn   4oo.  402 

Hasbrouck,  Isaac,  son  of  Jacob  I -.  ■■  •. 404 

Hasbrouck.  Isaac,  son  of  Jean  the  Patentee,  soldier  m  1711  •  •  ■  •  n? 

dies  probably  in  Queen  Anne's  War  171  t ^.yu ^^ 

Hasbrouck,  Isaac,  son  of  Col.  Jonathan,  m.  Hannah  Birdsall.  ._  . .  .  392 
Hasbrouck,   Isaac,   son   of  Joseph,   son  of  Abraham  the   Pat- 

entee    m.  Antje  Low,  widow  of  John  Van  Gaasbeck ,381,  3»0 

Hasbrouck,  Isaac  S.,  son  of  Severyn,  m.  Matilda  Barnes 406 

Hasbrouck,  Isaiah   -  ■  ■. 30.  271.  4»3 

Hasbrouck.  Isaiah,  son  of  Daniel,  m.  Mary  Bevier 37i 

Hasbrouck,  Isaiah,  son  of  Isaiah.  .^._.  ..  .  .  .  ...  •■••••: fl 

Hasbrouck.  Isaiah,  son  of  Jonas,  m.  Elizabeth  Westbrook 37i 

Hasbrouck,  Israel,  son  of  Isaac • ;.•■■•  392 

Hasbrouck.  Jacob •  ■   /^^  106,  309.  3^6.  383.  4  4 

Hasbrouck,  Tacob.  of  Marbletown,  m.  Sarah  DuBois^  .^. 3io 

Hasbrouck,  Major  Jacob,  of  New  Paltz,  m.  Janitje  DuBois.  . .  .  310 

Hasbrouck,  Tacob,  trooper  in  1715 ll 

soldier  Ulster  County  Militia  17,38 •  •  -^  •■•••■  ■  ■  •  •  ■_•  •  •  ^^^ 

Hasbrouck,  Jacob,  son  of  Benjamin,  son  of  Abraham  the  Fat- 

Hasbrouck,  Jacob,  son  of  Benjamin,  son  of  Joseph,  m.  Char- 

lotte  Thorn   • '^^^ 

Hasbrouck.  Jacob,  son  of  Jean  the  Patentee 2g,  3» 

m.  Hester  Bevier " •  •  ■  •  -  ■^~/-  -|^° 

Hasbrouck,  Tacob,  Jun • 62,  99.  44i.  485 

Hasbrouck,  Jacob,  Jun.,  son  of  Jacob ^9 

m.  Jane  DuBois  . '. 'J 

Captain  in  Revolution .•■/;■■; \\"'-6'^l' 

Hasbrouck,  Jacob  A.,  son  of  Joseph,  son  of  Abraham  the  Pat- 

entee.  m.  Maria  Hornbeck  3f^T.  3^/ 

•  11    „r  ?i<^ 

Will    01     A  i     ri     -D     •  tni 

Hasbrouck.  Tacob  T..  son  of  Isaac,  m.  Sarah  DuBois .  •■_;•.••••  403 
Hasbrouck,  Jacob  I..  Jim.,  son  of  Jacob  L.  m.  Catherine  Knicker- 

bocker   •  •  •  ■ '^'      .-^ 

Hasbrouck.  Jacob  T..  son  of  Jacob,  Jun.  ...._.  ._•  ,  - 40i.  402 

m.  I.  Margaret  Hardenbergh:   2.  Anna  DuBois 322.  402 


570  INDEX 


Hasbrouck,  Jacobus,  son  of  Jacob  1 404 

Hasbrouck,  Jacobus,  son  of  Solomon 98,  372 

Hasbrouck,  Jacobus  Bruyn,  son  of  Isaac 403 

Lieutenant  in  Revolution    403 

m.  Ann  Abeel  . . ; 406 

Hasbrouck.  James,  son  of  Col.  Abraham 383 

Hasbrouck,  James,  son  of  Francis 394 

Hasbrouck.  James,  son  of  Gen.  Joe 384 

m.  Henrietta  Cornelia  Bevier   251 

Hasbrouck,  Jane,  da.  of  Benjamin 389 

Hasbrouck,  Jane,  da.  of  Isaac,  wife  of  John  Crispell 386 

Hasbrouck.  Jane,  da.  of  Louis '385 

Hasbrouck.  Jane,  da.  of  Joseph  I.,  wife  of  Cornelius  DeWitt..  .      387 
Hasbrouck,  Jane.  da.  of  Col.  Josiah,  wife  of  Joseph  Hasbrouck     401 

Hasbrouck,  Jansen.  son  of  Abraham  of  the  Strand 384 

Hasbrouck,  Jean   (John),  the  Patentee 

I,  13.  15.  28.  55.  56.  89.  91,  256,  293,  362,  369,  397 

m.  Anna  Deyo 10,  508 

Hasbrouck.  Jeremiah,  son  of  Petrus.  m.  Bruyn 373 

Hasbrouck,  Jean,  m. Hasbrouck,  da.  of  Jacob  A 388 

Hasbrouck.  John,  son  of  Daniel,  m.  Mary  Backus 394 

Hasbrouck,  John,  son  of  Elias 374 

Hasbrouck,  John,  son  of  Isaac 403 

m.  Mary.  da.  of  Jacob  A.  Hasbrouck 404 

Captain  in  Revolution 405 

Hasbrouck,  John,  son  of  John 375 

Hasbrouck,  John,   son   of  Joseph,  m.   Rachel   Ann   Traphagen 

and  moves  to  Michigan    389 

Hasbrouck,  John,  son  of  Solomon 99.  372 

m. McDonald  375 

Hasbrouck.  John,  son  of  Zacharias 372 

Hasbrouck.  John  H 373 

Hasbrouck.  John  L.,  son  of  David 384 

Hasbrouck.  John,  W.,  son  of  Montgomery 374 

Hasbrouck.  Jonas,  son  of  Abraham,  baptized 40 

dies  young  369 

Hasbrouck.  Jonas,  son  of  Daniel 370 

m.  Catharine  DuBois  371 

Hasbrouck,  Jonathan,  son  of  Col.  Abraham 383 

Hasbrouck,  Jonathan,  son  of  Isaac,  m.  Phebe  Field 392 

Hasbrouck.  Jonathan,  son  of  Col.  Jonathan 392 

Hasbrouck.  Col.  Jonathan    i.  327.  461 

son  of  Joseph,  .son  of  Abraham  the  Patentee,  m.  Tryntje.  da.  of 

Cornelius  DuBois  ..310,  381,  390 

builds  Washington's  Headquarters  at  Newburg 390 

Colonel  in  Revolution   391 

Hasbrouck.  Judge  Jonathan   450 

Hasbrouck,  Josaphat.  son  of  Daniel,  m.  Cornelia  DuBois.  ...300.  371 

Hasbrouck.  Josaphat.  son  of  Jonas,  m.  DuBois 371 

Hasbrouck,  Joseph   89,  414 

Hasbrouck,  Joseph,  son  Abram  the  Patentee,  baptized 38 

mentioned  6t.  63,  375.  380 

m.  Ellsje  Schoonmaker   369 

Hasbrouck,  Joseph,  son  of  Col.  Abr..  called  "Gen.  Joe."  Lieut. - 

Col.  Cantine's  Regiment   377.  384 

m.  Elizabeth  Bevier 250.  383 


INDEX  571 

PAGE 

Hasbrouck,  Joseph,  son  of  Benjamin,  m.  Rebecca  Kelso 389 

Hasbrouck,  Joseph,  son  of  Jacob  A.,  Ensign,  Lieutenant  and 

Captain  in  Revohition 388 

Hasbrouck,  Joseph,  son  of  Col.  Jonathan -      39^ 

Hasbrouck.  Joseph,  son  of  Gen.  Joe,  called  "Col.  Joe" 377,  384,  385 

Hasbrouck,"  Joseph,  m.  Jane,  da.  of  Col.  Josiah  Hasbrouck 401 

Hasbrouck.  Joseph,  m.  Sarah  M.  LeFevre •  •     427 

Hasbrouck,  Joseph,  Jun ■ oi-  37^ 

Hasbrouck,  Joseph.  Jun..  son  of  Joseph  L.  . .  ••■••• ; , ^?3 

Hasbrouck,  Joseph  I.,  son  of  Isaac,  m.  Cornelia  Schoonmaker.      3«b 

Hasbrouck,  Joseph  L.,  son  of  Col.  Joe ........ ..377,  3«5 

Hasbrouck.  Joseph  Osterhoudt,  son  of  Joseph  I.,  m.  Eliza  Kay     2fi7 
Hasbrouck,  Col.  Josiah.  son  of  Jacob,  Jun 29,  311 

m.  Sarah  Decker   :   Lieutenant  .3rd  Ulster  Regiment 401 

Hasbrouck,  Dr.  Josiah,  son  of  DuBois 403 

Hasbrouck,  Josiah,  son  of  Isaiah v37i 

Hasbrouck,  Josiah,  son  of  Jacob  1 403 

m.  Cornelia  Deyo   ^7° 

Hasbrouck,  Josiah  J •  ■  •  ■ 435 

Hasbrouck,  Josiah  Lewis,  son  of  Jacob  I.,  Jun 404 

Hasbrouck,  Laura  Maria,  da.  of  Louis 3»o 

Hasbrouck,  Levi   ■• ■•  •  ■ -^R 

Hasbrouck,  Levi,  son  of  Joseph  I.,  m.  iMary  Decker 21^7 

Hasbrouck,  Levi,  son  of  Col.  Josiah 29,  401 

m.  Hylah  Bevier "L- 

Hasbrouck,  Levi,  son  of  Louis 3oo 

Hasbrouck,  Lodewyck   3oo 

Hasbrouck,  Lorenzo,  son  of  Henry  C.  ...........  -. 400 

Hasbrouck.  Louis,  son  of  Isaac,  soldier  m  Revolution 403 

m.  Catharine  Decker 400 

Hasbrouck,  Louis,  son  of  Jacob,  Jun 4"- 

Hasbrouck,  Louis,  son  of  James ;-.V, n  U  " 

Hasbrouck,  Louis,  son  of  Joseph,  son  of  Abraham,  m.  Catha- 

rine,  da.  of  Justus  Banks •  • • y"'"c'' 

Hasbrouck,  Louis,  son  of  Louis,  son  of  Joseph,  m.  i.  Louise  he>- 

mour  Allen  ;  2,  Sarah  Maria,  da.  of  Levi  Hasbrouck .3»d 

Hasbrouck,  Louis,  son  of  Louis,  son  of  Louis 3»o 

Hasbrouck.  Louis,  son  of  Gen.  Joe ... ■  ■  ■  •  •  ■  -■  •  • 34 

Hasbrouck,  Louis  I.,  son  of  Jacob  I.,  m.  Margaret  Van  Vleck 404 


Hasbrouck,  Louisa,  da.  of  Louis. 


385 


Hasbrouck.  Luther,  son  of  Gen.  Joe.  ^.  . 3  4 

Hasbrouck.  Luther,  grandson  of  Jacob,  Jun V    •  ,■  '  '  -r  '  'Af 

Hasbrouck,    Luther,   Jane    Westbrook,    widow    of,   2d   wife    ot 

Jonas  N.  LeFevre   •  ■■  • 4^ 

Fra^hrourk    Lvdia    da.  of  Benjamin ■  ■  -. -^^^ 

Krork  MaVdaien.  da.  of  Rielif,  wife  o^.  Daniel  DuBois.. 301,  373 

Hasbrouck   Margaret,  da.  of  Cornelius,  wife  of  Capt.  Eli  Ferry  .3»9 

HaSrouck,  Marjaret!  da.  of  Daniel    wife  of  Severyn  Brnyr.^^  392 

Hasbrouck,    Margaret,    da.   of  Jacob   L,   wife   of   Dr.   William  ^^^ 

Hasbrouck,Margaret'  Peters,' daV  of   Jacob   L.   Jun.,    wife    of 

Tames  C.  Cornish   -c'  '  ' rT\     -a 

Hasbrouck,  Maria,  da.  of  Abraham  of  Kingston,  wife  ^f  David 

-p       •  2^1,   -»4v»   — r''-' 

HasbS^clcMaria.'  da^of  Abr.'  of'  the'  Strand,  wife  of  Robert      ^^^ 

Gosman    


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Hasbrouck,  Maria,  da.  of  Isaac 403 

Hasbrouck,  Maria,  da.  of  Jacob  I.,  wife  of  Dr.  Mathew  DeWitt  404 

Hasbrouck,  Maria,  da.  of  Joseph  I.,  wife  of  Thomas  Ostrander  387 
Hasbrouck,    Maria,    da.    of    Col.   Josiah,    wife    of    Christopher 

Reese    ' 401 

Hasbrouck,  Maria  Dewitt,  da.  of  Jacob  I.,  Jun 404 

Hasbrouck,  Maria  H.,  da.  of  William  C 390 

Hasbrouck,  Maria  Jane,  da.  of  Joseph,  wife  of  Nathaniel  Roos  389 

Hasbrouck,  Marie   37 

Hasbrouck,  Mary,  da.  of  Benjamin 389,  394 

Hasbrouck,  Mary,  da.  of  Isaac 392 

Hasbrouck,  Mary,  da.  of  Isaiah '. 371 

Hasbrouck,  Mary,  da.  of  Jacob  A 388 

Hasbrouck,  Mary,  da.  of  Jean  the  Patentee 10.  '508 

wife  of  Isaac  DuBois  254,  293,  400 

Hasbrouck,   Mary.   da.   of   Col.   Jonathan,   wife   of   Capt.   Israel 

Smith    392 

Hasbrouck,   Mary,   da.   of  Joseph   and  widow   of  James   Gas- 

herie,  2d,   wife  of  Abraham  Hardenbergh 456 

Hasbrouck,  Mathew,  son  of  Isaac  S 406 

Hasbrouck,  Mathew  De  Witt,  son  of  Jacob  I.,  Jun 404 

Hasbrouck,  Mathusalem,  son  of  Petrus,  m.  Maria  Deyo 373 

Hasbrouck,  Maurice,  son  of  Jacob,  Jun 401,  402 

m. DuBois  304 

Hasbrouck,  Milton  B 373 

Hasbrouck,  Montgomery,  son  of  Elias 374 

Hasbrouck,  Noah,  son  of  Isaiah 371 

Hasbrouck,  Oscar,  son  of  Col.  Joe 385 

Hasbrouck,  Oscar  C ^y^, 

Hasbrouck,  Peter,  son  of  Elias 374 

Hasbrouck,  Peter,  son  of  Philip 375 

Hasbrouck,  Petronella,  wife  of  Simon  LeFevre 417 

Hasbrouck,  Petrus,  son  of  Solomon 99 

m.  Sarah,  da.  of  Abr.  Bevier 244.  373 

Lieutenant  in  Revolution   373 

Hasbrouck,  Philip,  son  of  John 375 

Hasbrouck,  Philip,  son  of  Gen.  Joe 384 

Hasbrouck,  Philip,  son  of  Joseph,  m.  Esther  Bevier- 250 

Hasbrouck,  Philip  B.,  son  of  James 385 

Hasbrouck,  Rachel,  da.  of  Abraham,  wife  of  Louis  DuBois  2d 

•. 314,  369 

Hasbrouck,   Rachel,   da.   of  David,  wife  of  Benjamin   I.   Has- 
brouck     404 

Hasbrouck,  Rachel,  da.  of  Isaac 392 

Hasbrouck,  Rachel,  da.  of  Jacob  A .' 388 

Hasbrouck,  Rachel,  da.  of  Col.  Jonathan,  wife  of  Daniel,  son 

of  Col.  Abraham  Hasbrouck 392 

heroic  ride  of   393 

Hasbrouck,  Rebecca,  da.  of  Joseph,  wife  of  Linus  Esterly 389 

Hasbrouck,  Roe,  son  of  William  C 389 

Hasbrouck,  Roelif,  son  of  Petrus,  m.  i,  Jane  Elting;    2,  Maria 

DeWitt 373 

Hasbrouck,  Rufus,  son  of  Jacob  I.,  Jun 404 

Hasbrouck,  Samuel,  son  of  Daniel 392 

Hasbrouck,  Samuel,  son  of  Petrus,  m.  Lydia  Crispell t,7^ 


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PAGE 

Hasbrouck,  Sarah,  da.  of  Benjamin 395 

Hasbrouck,  Sarah,  da.  of  Isaac,  wife  of  Walter  Case 392 

Hasbrouck,  Sarah,  da.  of  Joseph,  wife  of  John  Titus 389 

Hasbrouck,  Sarah,  da.  of  Roelif,  wife  of  William  W.  Deyo....  2i7Z 

Hasbrouck,  Sarah  B.,  da.  of  Joseph  I.,  wife  of  Daniel  Tuthill 386-7 

Hasbrouck,  Sarah  DuBois,  da.  of  Jacob  I.,  Jun 404 

Hasbrouck,  Sarah  ]\Iaria,  da.  of  Levi,  wife  of  Louis  Hasbrouck  386 

Hasbrouck,  Sarah  Sophia,  da.  of  Louis 385 

Hasbrouck,  Severyn,  son  of  Isaac 403 

soldier  in  Revolution 413 

m.  I ,  Maria  Depuy 405 

2,  Maria  Conklin 406 

Hasbrouck,  Severyn,  son  of  Isaac  S 406 

Hasbrouck,  Simon,  son  of  Josaphat 371 

Hasbrouck,  Simon,  son  of  Petrus 373 

Hasbrouck,  Simon,  son  of  Solomon 372 

Hasbrouck,  Solomon 75,  106,  309,  414 

Hasbrouck,  Solomon,  son  of  Abm.  the  Patentee,  baptized 38 

m.  Sarah  Van  Wagenen 369,  372 

Hasbrouck,  Solomon,  son  of  Petrus,  m.  Magdalen  LeFevre. 373,  450 

Hasbrouck,  Solomon,  trooper  in  1715 117 

Hasbrouck,  Corporal  Solomon,  Ulster  County  Co.,  1738 118 

Hasbrouck,  Dr.  Stephen,  son  of  Joseph  I.,  m.  Elsie  Schenck...  387 

Hasbrouck,  Thomas,  son  of  Joseph 389 

Hasbrouck,  Tunis,  son  of  Daniel 394 

Hasbrouck,  Washington,  son  of  Philip 375 

Hasbrouck,  Wilhelmus,  son  of  Jacob  1 404 

Hasbrouck,  William,  son  of  David 372,  384 

Hasbrouck,  William,  son  of  John 375 

Hasbrouck,  William  C,  son  of  Cornelius,  m.  Mary  E.  Roe 389 

Hasbrouck,  William  H..  son  of  William  C 389 

Hasbrouck,  William  Peters,  son  of  Jacob  I.,  Jun 404 

Hasbrouck,  Wyntje  Deyo,  wife  of  Daniel 371 

widow  of  Daniel   100 

Hasbrouck,  Zacharias  265 

son  of  Daniel,  m.  Rachel  Waring 372 

Hasbrouck,  Zacharias,  son  of  Josaphat 371 

Hasbrouck, — ,  da.  of  Benjamin,  wife  of  Peter  Rose :^y2 

Hasbrouck  Institute,  Jersey  City,  N.  J 375 

Hass,  Abraham   96 

Hass,  Robert   265 

Haye,  Mary,  ist  wife  of  Hugo  Freer  the  Patentee 349,  509 

Helm,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Peter  Deyo,  Jun 275 

Henderson,  James,  Patent 499 

Henderyckx,  Roelif   14 

Hermance,  Jacob,  m.  Sarah  Bevier 240 

Higby.  Dr.  Moses,  of  New  Windsor T:,7,y 

Hoffman,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Jesse  Bevier 234 

Hofifman,  Jacob,  m.  Margaret  LeFevre 418 

Hoffman,  Jan.  m.  Magdalena  Bevier 2.45 

Hofifman,  Josiah  Ogden   385 

Hofifman,  Capt.  Nicholas 117 

Hofifman.  Capt.  Zacharias,  of  New  Paltz  Co.,  1717 118,  417 

Hoffman.  Zacharias,  Patent 409 

Hofifman,  Capt.  259,  360.  t,6?, 


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Holmes,  Russell,  m.  i,  Mary  Ann  Bevier;   2,  Eleanor  Bevier...  252 

Hoornbeck  (Hornbeck),  Annatje,  wife  of  Wilhelmus  Bevier..  238 

Hornbeck,  Arriantje,  wife  of  Cornelius  Schoonmaker 499 

Hoornbeck,  Charity,  wife  of  Louis  DuBois  Bevier 251 

Hornbeck,  Christina,  wife  of  Lewis  LeFevre 428 

Hoornbeck.  Jophat,  m.  Jannetje  Bevier 242 

Hornbeck,  Dr.,  m.  Elsie  Hasbrouck 392 

Hornbeck.  Magdalene,  wife  of  Nathaniel  LeFevre 427 

Hornbeck.  Mary,  wife  of  Jacob  Hasbrouck 381,  387 

Hornbeck,  Mary.  2d  wife  of  Dr.  Jacob  Wirtz 466 

Houghland,  Maritje,  wife  of  David  Hasbrouck 372 

Houghtaling,  Janetje,  wife  of  Hendricus  DuBois 311 

Houghtaling,  Margaret,  wife  of  Cornelius  DuBois.  Sr 309 

Houseman,  Jane,  wife  of  Rev.  Wilhelmus  Elting 497 

Howe,  Lieut.  - 338 

Hubble,  Livelet   96 

Hue,  James  96 

Huested,  Capt.  ■ 2>2)7 

Hull.  Annie,  da.  of  Nathaniel,  wife  of  Lewis  DuBois 345 

Hull.    Nathaniel    345 

Huntington.  Major  ■ T,2,y 

Hurs.  Robert   95 

Hurta,  James  96 

Hussey.  Ann.  2d  wife  of  Jochen  Hendrick  Schoonmaker 499 

Hutchins.  Capt.  Amos  330 

Hutchinson,  Ebenezer,  Surgeon's  Mate 330,  342 

Huybertson,  Lambert   14 

Huylands,  Lammert 282 

Hyms,   Frederick    95.  265 

Indian   Fort    281 

the  new   54 

village  on  the   VVallkill    305 

Intermarriages  between  French  and  Dutch  settlers 44 

Irving,  Washington   130 

Irwin.  Margaret.  2d  wife  of  Jacobus  Auchmoody 452 

Jackson,   Lieut.   Patten 331 

taken  prisoner  at  Fort  Montgomery 332 

Jacobson.  Aert,  son  of  Jacob  Gerritson 482 

Jansen,  Abraham,  m.  Katrintje  Bevier 244 

Jansen,  Albert    14 

Jansen,  Capt.  Cornelius  T 328 

Jansen.  Daniel,  m.  Catharine  LeFevre 419 

Jansen,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Jacobus  LeFevre 428 

Jansen.  Hester,  wife  of  Isaac  Freer 360 

Jansen,  Major  Johannes.  Jun 327 

Jansen,  Margaret,  da.  of  Daniel,  wife  of  Abraham  P.  LeFevre.  431 

Jansen.  Margaret,  wife  of  Nathaniel  LeFevre 420 

Jansen.  Maria,  wife  of  Dr.  Mauritius  (Maurice)  Wirts 466 

Jenkins.  Crines.  m.  Rachel  Hardenbergh 97 

Jenkins.  James,  m.  Rachel  LeFevre ;.  .  .  .  ^2y 

Jessup,  Thomas  K 269 

Jochensen.   Hendrick    14 


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PAGE 

Johnson,  Maria,  wife  of  George  Hasbrouck 387 

Johnson,  William,  m.  Catharine  Hasbrouck 389 

Johnston,  Jaines,  Quartermaster  and  Ensign 342 

Johnston   (Johnson),  Capt.  John 331,  342 

Jorisse,  Maddeleen,  wife  of  Mathew  Blanshan 507 

Keator,  Mrs.  ,  da.  of  Montgomery  Hasbrouck 374 

Kelsey,  Julia,  wife  of  Joseph  Deyo 276 

Kelso,  Jane,  wife  of  Cornelius  Hasbrouck 389 

Kelso,  Rebecca,  wife  of  Joseph  Hasbrouck 389 

Kettletas,  Abram,  son  of  Garret 423 

Kattletas,  Kateltas,  Kataltas,  Garret. 50,  62,  92,  423 

Kettletas,  John,  son  of  Garret 423 

Kettletas,  Peter,  son  of  Garret , 423 

Kiersted,  Christopher,  m.  Leah  DuBois 311 

Knickerbocker,  Catharine,  wife  of  Jacob  I.  Hasbrouck,  Jun 404 

Koleman,   Peter    96 

Koole,  Israel   96 

Kregier,  Crieger,  Capt.,  expedition  of,  against  Esopus  Indians.  ..  .7,  281 

Kritsinger,  Catrina,  wife  of  John  Deyo 279 

Krom,  Jacob   265 


LaFayette,   Marquis  de 394 

Lambertson.  Gerrit   89,  91 

LaMontagne,  W 13.  I5 

Laraway  Family  358 

LaRue,  Mary,  wife  of  Samuel  Budd 453 

LaToinelle,  Esther  39 

LaToinelle,  ,  godmother  ■      38 

Lawrence,  Lieut.  Andries  T 325 

Lawson,  Robert,  m.  Gertrude  Budd 45.3"4 

LeBlan  (LeBlanc),  Maria,  wife  of  Louis  Bevier 10,  39.  225,  233,  509 

LeConte,  JNIary,  wife  of  Christian  Deyo 45i 

LeConte,  see  deGrafif. 

Lee,  Capt. 22>7 

Lee,  Capt.  Thomas  ZZ^ 

LeFevre.  LeFever,  Lefeber,  Lesfabor  

LeFevre,  Abram   62,   loi 

LeFevre,  Abraham,  son  of  Isaac  of  Penna 408 

LeFevre.  Abraham,  son  of  Jean,  son  of  Simon  the  Patentee.  .50,  422,  431 

m.  Maria  Bevier   243,  430 

private  Capt.  Hofifman's  Comp 4^7 

LeFevre,  Abram,  son  of  Simon  the  Patentee 410 

Lesfover.  Abraham,  Overseer  of  the  Poor,  New  Paltz 300 

LeFevre,  Abram  A.,  son  of  Abram  N 428 

LeFevre.  Abram  N.,  son  of  Nathaniel,  m.  Sarah,  da.  of  Isaac 

LeFevre  of  Bontecoe  428,  442 

LeFevre,  Abm.  P.,  son  of  Philip,  m.  i.  Margaret  Jansen 431 

2,  Maria  Elting,  widow  of  Dr.  John  Bogardus 491 

LeFevre,  Adam    4io 

LeFevre.  Adam,  son  of  Conrad 440 

LeFevre.  Affie,  da.  of  Conrad,  wife  of  Daniel  Blanshan 449 

LeFevre.  .'Xndre   309 


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LeFevre,  Andre  and  Simon,  the   first  of  the  New  Paltz   Le- 

Fevres 407,  409 

LeFevre,  Andre,  the  Patentee 10,  13,  15,  30,  508 

sells  a  house  at  Hurley 19,  41 1 

not  married ' 441 

dies  without  issue  no 

LeFevre,  Andries,  son  of  Simon  the  Patentee.  .30,  50,  75,  410,  414,  433 

m.  Cornelia  Blanshan  415 

Lieutenant  Capt.  Hoffman's  Co 417 

LeFevre,  Andries  62,  92,  loi,  353 

LeFevre,  Andries,  of  Kettleboro,  m.  Rachel  DuBois 322 

LeFevre,  Andries,  called  "Flagus,"  m.  Magdalen  LeFevre 430 

LeFevre,  Lieut.  Andries,  of  New  Paltz  Co.,  1717 118 

LeFevre,  Andries,  son  of  Isaac 441 

LeFevre,  Andries,  son  of  Jean,  son  of  Simon  the  Patentee. .  .50,  418 

settles  at  Kettleboro  419,  422 

m.  Rachel,  da.  of  Nathaniel  DuBois 424 

member  of  Prov.  Congress 425 

LeFevre,  Andries,  son  of  Nathaniel 427,  428 

LeFevre,  Andries,  Jun.,  son  of  Simon,  m.  Magdalen  LeFevre. .     418 

called  "Uncle  Flagus" 

LeFevre,  Andries,  Jun.,  son  of  Simon,  son  of  Andre 417 

LeFevre,  Andries  A.,  son  of  Andries  J 427 

m.  Maria  LeFevre  428 

LeFevre,  Andries  L,  m.  Maria  Bevier 239 

LeFevre,  Andries  J.,  son  of  Johannes,  m.  Hannah  DuBois..  .311,  427 

LeFevre,  Andries  P.,  son  of  Philip 431 

m.  Magdalen  Elting 432 

LeFevre,  Andrew,  son  of  Simon 421 

LeFevre,  Andrew,  m.  Delia  Ann  Deyo 277 

LeFevre,  Andrew  &  Co 89 

LeFevre,  Ann,  da.  of  Petrus 435 

LeFevre,  Ann.  da.  of  Capt.  Simon,  wife  of  Abm.  DuBois 450 

LeFevre,  Asa    423 

LeFevre,  Ben  of  Ohio,  grandson  of  John,  of  New  Rochelle.  .  .      409 

LeFevre,  Blandina,  da.  of  Jacobus,  wife  of  Roelif  Elting 428 

LeFevre,  Catharine 448 

LeFevre,  Catharine,  da.  of  Abraham,  wife  of  Daniel  DuBois. 303,  430 
LeFevre,  Catharine,  da.  of  Andries,  wife  of  Wessel  DuBois....     426 

LeFevre,  Catharine,  da.  of  Mathew 420 

wife  of  Roelif  S.  Elting 421 

LeFevre,  Catharine,  da.  of  Nathaniel,  wife  of  Daniel  Jansen...     419 
LeFevre,  Catharintje,  da.  of  Andre,  wife  of  Simon  DuBois.  .299,  417 

LeFevre,  C.  Hornbeck,  son  of  Nathaniel 427 

LeFevre,  Christopher,  son  of  Jacob 435 

LeFevre,  Cornelia,  da.  of  Andries,  wife  of  Solomon  Elting 426,  492 

LeFevre,  Cornelia,  da.  of  Johannes,  wife  of  George  Wurts 427 

LeFevre,  Cornelia,  da.  of  Moses 420 

LeFevre.  Conrad,  son  of  Mathew ;   m. Swart 443 

LeFevre.  Cornelius,  son  of  Moses 420 

LeFevre.  Cornelius,  son  of  Petrus 435 

m.  Maritje  Van  Wagenen  438 

LeFevre,  Cornelius  D.,  son  of  Andries  J 427 

LeFevre,  Cornelius  D.,  m.  Gitty  Elting 491 

LeFevre,  Daniel   270 


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PAGE 

LeFevre,  Daniel,  son  of  Isaac 99,  435,  440,  441,  447 

brother-in-law  of   Colonels  Johannes  Hardenbergh,  Jun., 

and  John  Cantine 440 

m.  Catharine  Cantine 421,  435 

LeFevre,  Daniel,  son  of  Isaac  of  Penna 408 

LeFevre,  Daniel,  son  of  Jacobus,  m.  Ellen  LeFevre 428 

LeFevre,  Daniel,  son  of  Peter,  m.  Mary  Blanshan,  widow  of 

Abm.  Hasbrouck  443 

LeFevre,  DuBois,  son  of  Nathaniel 427 

LeFevre,  Egbert,  son  of  Nathaniel 427 

LeFevre,  Eliza,  da.  of  Jacobus,  wife  of  Deyo  DuBois 428 

LeFevre,  Eliza,  da.  of  Simon,  wife  of  Clinton  Hasbrouck 421 

LeFevre,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Andries  of  New  Paltz,  wife  of  Jona- 
than DuBois  318,  417 

LeFevre,   Elizabeth,  da.  of  Andries  J.,  wife  of  Josiah   P.   Le- 
Fevre         427 

LeFevre,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Andries  of  Kettleborough,  wife  of 

Zachariah  Bruyn   , 426 

LeFevre,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Daniel,  wife  of  Mathew  LeFevre.. 

419,  420,  421 

LeFevre,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Moses 420 

LeFevre,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Capt.  Abraham  Deyo 264 

LeFevre,  Ellen,  wife  of  Daniel  LeFevre ; 428 

LeFevre,  Garret,  son  of  Jonathan 422 

LeFevre,  Garret,  son  of  Levi 449 

LeFevre,  George,  son  of  Simon  449 

LeFevre.  Gertrude,  da.  of  Abram  N 428 

LeFevre,  Gertrude,  da.  of  Andries,  wife  of  Philip  Deyo 271,  426 

LeFevre.  Gertrude,  da.  of  Andries  J.,  wife  of  Roelif  DuBois. . .     427 

LeFevre,  Gilbert,  son  of  Daniel 441 

LeFevre,  Gitty,  da.  of  Isaac 441 

wife  of  Dr.  John  Bogardus 442 

LeFevre,  Gitty,  da.  of  Mathew 420,  421 

LeFevre,  Gitty,  da.  of  Simon,  ist  wife  of  Jacob  Elting 421 

LeFevre.  Hippolytus,  of  Salem,  N.  J 407 

LeFevre,  Isaac,  of  N.  J 407 

LeFevre,  Isaac,  of  Penna.  m.  Catharine  Ferree  and  moves  to 

Lancaster  County,  Penna '  408 

LeFevre,  Isaac    75,  92,  106,  309,  504 

LeFevre,  Isaac,  m.  Mary  Freer 353.  415,  433 

LeFevre,  Isaac,  son  of  Isaac 435 

LeFevre,  Isaac,  son  of  Johannes,  m.  Mary  LeFevre 426,  441,  447 

LeFevre.  Major  Isaac,  son  of  Petrus,  m.  Catharine  Burhans.  . .     435 

LeFevre,  Isaac,  son  of  Simon  the  Patentee 37,  50.  58,  410,  414 

private  Capt.  Hoffman's  Comp 417 

moves  to  Bontecoe 43,^ 

wins  foot  race 435 

LeFevre,  Isaac,  Jun..  son  of  Isaac,  private  Capt.  Hoffman's  Co.  .  .  .     417 

LeFevre,  Isaac  C,  son  of  Cornelius 438 

LeFevre,  Jacob,  son  of  Petrus,  m.  Lydia  Deyo 435 

LeFevre.  Jacob,  grandson  of  Jonathan 420 

LeFevre,  Jacobus,  son  of  Nathaniel,  m.  Elizabeth  Jansen 428 

LeFevre,  James,  the  French  preacher 10,  410 

LeFevre,  James,  son  of  Nathaniel 427 

LeFevre,  Jan  92 


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LeFevre,  Jane,  wife  of  Daniel  L.  Dej^o 271 

LeFevre,  Jane,  da.  of  Petrus 435.  448 

LeFevre,  Jane,  wife  of  Samuel  DuBois 303 

LeFevre,  Jean    (John),  son  of  Simon  the  Patentee 

••■,;:•••.••  -A ;••••;•  v.r ^°'  4^°-  414  418,  433 

soldier  m  Queen  Anne  s  War 415,  422 

m.  Catharine  Blanshan  415 

private  in  Capt.  Hoffman's  Co 417 

LeFevre,  Jean  (John)   75,  106,  309 

LeFevre,  J.  Elting  427 

LeFevre,  Johannes  264 

LeFevre,  Johannes,  of  Kettleborough,  son  of  Andries,  m.   Eliza- 
beth DuBois  319,  426,  427 

LeFevre,  Johannes,  son  of  Isaac 99,  447 

m.  Sarah  Vernooy  435,  441 

LeFevre,  Johannes,  son  of  Nathaniel 427 

LeFevre,  Johannes  A.,  son  of  Andries  J 427 

LeFevre,  John,  of  New  Rochelle,  son  of  John  of  St.  Domingo.     409 

LeFevre,  John,  of  St.  Domingo 409 

LeFevre.  John    (Jean),   bond   of,   to  brother-in-law,    Daniel    Du- 
Bois         423 

LeFevre,  John,  son  of  Abraham 43b 

m.  Mary  LeFevre  431 

LeFevre,  John,  son  of  Jonas,  m.  Nancy  Ransom 428 

LeFevre,  John,  son  of  Nathaniel,  m.   Eglie   Swart,  widow  of 

Capt.  Simon  LeFevre  419 

private  in  Revolution   420 

LeFevre,  John,  son  of  Simon,  baptized 38 

LeFevre,  John  I.,  son  of  Isaac 441,  442 

LeFevre,  John,  M.,  son  of  Mathew 431 

LeFevre,  John  N.,  of  Kettleborough,  son  of  Noah,  m.  Sarah 

DuBois    311,  431 

LeFevre,  John  P.,  son  of  Petrus 435 

m.  Mary  Hardenburgh   438,  448 

LeFevre,  Jonas,  son  of  Nathaniel 428 

LeFevre,  Jonas   N.,   son  of  Noah,  m.   i,   Catharine  Budd;    2, 

Jane  Westbrook,  widow  of  Luther  Hasbrouck 431,  453 

LeFevre,  Jonathan,  m.  Dinah  Hasbrouck 373 

LeFevre.  Jonathan,  son  of  Conrad 449 

LeFevre.  Jonathan  J.,  son  of  Jonathan 422 

LeFevre,  Jonathan  J.,  son  of  Levi 449 

LeFevre,  Jonathan,  son  of  Mathew,  m. Swart 448 

LeFevre,  Jonathan,  son  of  Nathaniel 419 

private  in  Revolution  420 

LeFevre,  Jonathan,  son  of  Nathaniel,  m.  Catharine  Freer... 420,  422 

LeFevre,  Josiah.  m.  Maria  LeFevre 428 

LeFevre,  Josiah,  son  of  Abram  N 428 

LeFevre,  Josiah,  son  of  John  N 431 

LeFevre,  Josiah  P.,  son  of  Peter 443,  493 

LeFevre,  Mrs.  Josiah  P 425 

LeFevre,  Josiah  R.,  son  of  Ralph 443 

LeFevre,  Levi,  son  of  Jonathan,  m. Newkirk 449 

LeFevre,  Lewis,  son  of  Jacobus,  m.  Christina  Hornbeck 428 

LeFevre,  Lewis,  son  of  Nathaniel 428 

m.  Rachel  Bell  430 


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PAGE 

LeFevre,  Lorenzo,  son  of  Adam 449 

LeFevre,  Luther,  son  of  Nathaniel 427 

LeFevre,  Magdalen,  da.  of  Abraham,  wife  of  Andries  LeFevre 

"Flagus"    , 430 

LeFevre,  Magdalen,  da.  of  Andre,  wife  of  Johannes  Bevier.. 

I 243,  245,  417 

LeFevre,  Magdalen,  da.  of  Mathew 420 

LeFevre,  Magdalen,  da.  of  Peter 493 

LeFevre,  Magdalen,  da.  of  Philip,  wife  of  Mathusalem  Elting.     431 
LeFevre,   Magdalen,   da.  of  Simon,  wife  of  Nathaniel  J.    Le- 
Fevre         421 

LeFevre,  Magdalen,  da.  of  Capt.  Simon,  wife  of  Solomon  Has- 

brouck 373,  450 

LeFevre,  Magdalen,  wife  of  Andries  LeFevre,  Jim 418 

LeFevre,    Margaret,    da.    of   Abraham,    ist   wife   of   Abraham 

Bevier    236 

LeFevre,  Margaret,  da.  of  Abraham,  wife  of Vernooy. ..    430 

LeFevre,  Margaret,  da.  of  Jacobus,  wife  of  Cornelius  Wurts.  . .     428 
LeFevre,  Margaret,  da.  of  Jean,  son  of  Simon  the  Patentee, 

wife  of  Jacob  Hoffman 418 

LeFevre,  Margaret,  da.  of  Nathaniel,  wife  of  Daniel  Deyo  of 

Ireland  Corners   266,  419 

LeFevre,  Maria,  da.  of  Abram  N.,  wife  of  Andries  A.  LeFevre.     428 

LeFevre,  Maria,  da.  of  Jacobus,  wife  of  Josiah  LeFevre 428 

LeFevre,  Maria,  da.  of  Philip,  wife  of  Abraham  Van  Orden. .  . .     431 

LeFevre,  Maria,  da.  of  Simon,  wife  of  C.  Wynkoop 421 

LeFevre,  Maria,  wife  of  Daniel  DuBois 50 

LeFevre,  Maritje,  da.  of  Andre,  wife  of  Nathaniel  LeFevre.  . . .     417 

LeFevre,  Mary,  da.  of  Andre,  wife  of  Conrad  Vernoy 417 

LeFevre,  Mary,  da.  of  Andries,  wife  of  Isaac  LeFevre 426 

LeFevre,  Mary,  da.  of  Andries  of  Kettleboro,  widow  of  Isaac 

LeFevre,  wife  of  Capt.  Abm.  Deyo ■ 264,  441 

LeFevre,  Mary,  da.  of  Daniel,  wife  of  Jonathan  Deyo 270,  440 

LeFevre,  Mary,  da.  of  Isaac,  wife  of  Col.  Johannes  Harden- 

burgh,  Jun 435,  461 

LeFevre,  Mary,  da.  of  Jonathan,  wife  of  Smith  Ransom 422 

LeFevre,  Mary,  da.  of  Simon  the  Patentee,  wife  of  Daniel  Du- 
Bois      412 

LeFevre,  Mary,  wife  of  Jean  LeFevre 431 

LeFevre,  Mathew  50 

LeFevre,  Mathew,  son  of  Andre,  son  of  Simon  the  Patentee 407 

m.  Margaret  Bevier  243,  448 

Lieut.   Cantine's  Regiment 448 

LeFevre,  Mathew,  son  of  John,  m.  Sarah  LeFevre 431 

LeFevre,  Mathew,  son  of  Moses 420 

LeFevre,  Mathew,  son  of  Nathaniel lOO,  427 

m.  Elizabeth  LeFevre  419,  420,  421,  440 

Lieutenant  in  Revolution   419 

LeFevre,  Mathew,  son  of  Simon 421 

LeFevre,  Mathew,  son  of  Capt.  Simon 450 

LeFevre,,  Mathew  J.,  m.  Sarah  LeFevre 427 

LeFevre,  Moses,  son  of  Conrad 449 

LeFevre,  Moses,  son  of  Mathew,  m.  Margaret  Vernooy 420 

LeFevre,  Moses,  son  of  Simon 421 

LeFevre,  Moses  P.,  son  of  Peter 303,  443,  493 


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LeFevre,  Myndert,  son  of  Isaac,  of  N.  J 407 

LeFevre,  Nathan,  son  of  Abraham 430 

LeFevre,  Nathaniel 62,  100,  383,  485 

LeFevre,  Nathaniel,  xn.  cousin,  Maritje  LeFevre 417,  418 

LeFevre,  Nathaniel,  son  of  Abram  N 428 

LeFevre,  Nathaniel,  son  of  Andries,  m.  Mary  Deyo 426,  428 

LeFevre,  Nathaniel,  son  of  Jan,  son  of  Simon  the  Patentee.  .422,  425 
LeFevre,  Nathaniel,  son  of  Jean,  private  in  Capt.   Hoffman's 

Co 417 

LeFevre,  Nathaniel,  son  of  Johannes,  m.  Magdalene  Hornbeck    427 

LeFevre,  Nathaniel,  son  of  Lewis,  called  "Sing" 430 

LeFevre,  Nathaniel,  son  of  Mathew,  m.  Margaret  Jansen 420 

LeFevre,  Nathaniel,  son  of  Simon 421 

LeFevre,  Nathaniel  J.,  m.  Magdalen  LeFevre 421 

LeFevre,  Nellie,  wife  of  Daniel  A.  Deyo 268 

LeFevre,  Noah,  son  of  Abraham 430 

m.  Cornelia  Bevier   245,  431 

LeFevre,  Peter,  son  of  Daniel  of  Bontecoe 440,  447,  463 

m.  Magdalen  Elting 442,  493 

LeFever,  Peter,  of  New  Amsterdam 407 

LeFevre,  Peter,  son  of  Isaac 441 

LeFevre,  Peter,  son  of  Cornelius  C 438 

LeFevre,  Peter  D.,  son  of  Daniel  303,  443 

LeFevre,  Peter  E.,  son  of  John  of  New  Rochelle ; 409 

LeFevre,  Peter  R.,  son  of  Ralph. 443 

LeFevre,  Petronella,  da.  of  Johannes,  wife  of  Daniel  A.  Deyo.  .  427 
LeFevre,  Petrus,  son  of  Isaac 99,  435,  437,  447 

m.  Elizabeth  Vernooy 435 

LeFevre,  Philip   276 

LeFevre,  Philip,  of  Kettleborough,  son  of  Abraham 430 

m.  Elsie  DuBois  319,  431 

LeFevre,  Philip,  son  of  Isaac  of  Penna 408 

LeFevre,  Philip,  son  of  Simon , 421 

LeFevre,  Philip  D.,  m.  Elmira  Deyo 277 

LeFevre,  Rachel,  da.  of  Abraham,  wife  of  Johannes  DuBois.  . .  430 
LeFevre,  Rachel,  da.  of  Abram  N.,  wife  of  Andrew  Brodhead.  .  428 
LeFevre,   Rachel,   da.  of  Andre,  wife  of  Johannes   Bevier   of 

Wawarsing   235,  417 

LeFevre,  Rachel,  da.  of  Isaac 441 

wife  of  John  Brodhead 442 

LeFevre,  Rachel,  da.  of  Jacobus,  wife  of  William  Deyo 428 

LeFevre,  Rachel,  da.  of  Johannes,  wife  of  James  Jenkins 427 

LeFevre,  Ralph,  son  of  Peter,  m.  Rachel  Elting 443,  491 

LeFevre,  Samuel,  son  of  Abraham 430 

LeFevre,  Samuel,  son  of  Mathew,  m. Swart 448 

LeFevre,  Samuel,  son  of  Capt.  Simon 450 

LeFevre,  Samuel,  widow  of,  marries  John  LeFevre 449 

LeFevre,  Samuel  T.,  of  Iowa 408 

LeFevre.  Sarah,  da.  of  Andries,  wife  of  Samuel  Bevier.  .235,  236,  417 
LeFevre.  Sarah,  da.  of  Andries  of  Kettleborough,  wife  of  Jo- 

siah  R.  Elting 426,  491 

LeFevre,  Sarah,  da.  of  Isaac  of  Bontecoe,  wife  of  Abram  N. 

LeFevre    428,  442 

LeFevre,  Sarah,  da.  of  Johannes,  wife  of  Mathew  J.  LeFevre. .  427 
LeFevre.  Sarah  M..  da.  of  Nathaniel,  wife  of  Joseph  Hasbrouck     427 


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PAGE 

LeFevre,  Sarah,  da.  of  Peter,  wife  of  Elias  Bevier 247,  248 

LeFevre,  Sarah,  da.  of  Petrus 435 

LeFevre,  Sarah,  da.  of  Philip 431 

LeFevre,  Sarah,  wife  of  Andries  DuBois 319 

LeFevre,  Sarah,  wife  of  Mathew  LeFevre 431 

LeFevre,  Seven  Sisters   417 

LeFevre,  Simon,  the  Patentee.  .  .10,  13,  15.  30,  50,  56,  58,  236,  271,  508 

m.  Elizabeth  Deyo  11,  410 

sells  a  house  at  Hurley 19,  411 

widow  of,  marries  Moses  Cantine 411 

settlement  of  estate  of "^. 412 

LeFevre,   Simon,  son  of  Andre,  private  in  Capt.  Hoffman's  Co.; 

m.  Petronella  Hasbrouck   417 

LeFevre,  Simon,  son  of  Mathew,  m.  Swart 448 

Captain  in  Revolution  449 

LeFevre,  Capt.  Simon,  widow  of,  marries  John  LeFevre 419 

LeFevre,  Simon,  son  of  Mathew 420 

m.  Elizabeth  Deyo ;    Captain  in  1812 421 

LeFevre.  Simon,  son  of  Samuel,  m.  —  Hendricks 449 

LeFevre,  "Sing"    267,  430 

LeFevre,  Solomon   273 

LeFevre,  Solomon,  son  of  Abraham 430 

LeFevre,  Solomon  P.,  son  of  Philip 431 

m.  I,  Sarah  Deyo;   2,  Jane  Elting 432 

LeFevre,  Tjerck,  son  of  Jacob 437 

LeFevre.  Washington,  son  of  Cornelius 438 

LeFevre,  Zebedee 448 

LeFevre,  ,  da.  of  Petrus,  wife  of  Samuel  DuBois 438 

LeFevre,  ,  da.  of  Petrus,  wife  of  Elias  Bevier 438 

LeFevre, ,  da.  of  Petrus.  wife  of  Charles  Hardenburgh.  .  438 

LeFevre,  various  French  families  of.  settled  in  America 407 

LeFevres  of  BJoomingdale   448 

LeFevres  of  Bontecoe 432 

LeFevres.  of  Kettleborough   422.  432 

Leggett  (Lent).  Ensign  Abm..  taken  prisoner  at  Fort  Montgomery  332 

Leman.  Adelia,  da.  of  Henry  E 346 

Leman.  Henry  E.,  of  Lancaster,  Pa.,  m.  Anna  DuBois 346 

Leman.  Henry  E..  son  of  Henry  E 34" 

Leman,  James  C.  son  of  Henry  E 340 

Leman.  Lewis  D..  son  of  Henry  E 340 

Leman.  Samuel  W..  son  of  Henry  E 340 

Lent,  Ensign  Abraham 33]^ 

LeRoy,  Francis,  son  of  Simeon 358 

LeRoy,  Joanna,  wife  of  Dennis  Relyea S02 

LeRoy.  Leonard,  son  of  Simeon 358 

LeRoy,  Marie  Ann,  wife  of  Hugo  Freer.  2d  or  Sr 39-  35o 

LeRoJ^  Philip,  m.  Julia  Deyo 277 

LeRoi^  Simeon  357 

LeSaeur.  Jane,  wife  of  William  Elting 4^ 

Lester.  Murry   ^ 

Livingston,  Gil • -^^5 

Livingston.   T.  Gil "4 

Lockwood,  Charles,  son  of  Daniel ,^40 

Lockwood.  Daniel,  son  of  Daniel 34^ 

Lockwood,  Daniel,  ni.  Margaret  DuBois .^4" 


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PAGE 

Lockwood,  Deborah,  wife  of  David  Bevier 252 

Lockwood,  Ely  T.,  son  of  Daniel 346 

Lockwood,  Lewis  D.,  son  of  Daniel 346 

Lockwood,  Nathaniel  D.,  son  of  Daniel 347 

Lockwood,  Rachel,  da.  of  Daniel 346 

Logan,  Major  Samuel  330 

taken  prisoner  at  Fort  Montgomery 332 

Lounsberry,  Hester,  wife  of  Johannes  Freer 363 

Louis,  Johanna,   widow  of   Peter  Van   Bome,   2d   wife  of  Abra- 
ham Freer,  Jun 364 

Low,  Abraham,  son  of  Peter  Cornelius 468 

Low,  Antje,  widow  of  John  Van  Gasbeck,  m.  Isaac  Hasbrouck  381 

Low,  Antje,  wife  of  Simeon  Deyo 269 

Low,  Cornelia,  da.  of  Cornelius 344 

Low,  Cornelius,  son  of  Peter  Cornelius 468 

Low,  Cornelius,  m.  Rachel  Low 344 

Low,  David,  son  of  Simeon 409 

Low,  Ezekiel,  son  of  Simeon 469 

Low,  Isaac,  son  of  Peter,  son  of  Mathew 468 

Low,  Jacob,  son  of  Johannis  M 469 

Low,  Jacob,  son  of  Peter  Cornelius 468 

Low,  Jacob,  son  of  Simeon 469 

Low,  Janitje,  da.  of  Simeon 469 

Low,  Johannis    351 

Low,  Johannes,  son  of  Johannes  M 469 

Low,  Johannis,  son  of  Peter  Cornelius 468 

Low,  Johannes   M.  or  Jun.,  son  of  Mathew 95.  100,353 

m.  Rebecca  Freer   469 

Low,  Jonathan,  son  of  Peter,  son  of  Mathew 468 

Low,  Judith,  wife  of  Jonathan  Bevier 248 

Low,  Lena,  da.  of  Johannes  M .    469 

Low,  Maria,  da.  of  Johannes  M.,  wife  of  Roelif  J.  Elting. . .  .469,  487 

Low,  Maria,  da.  of  Simeon 469 

Low,  Mathew,  son  of  Peter  Cornelius,  m.  Jannetje  Van  Har- 

ring    468 

Low,  Peter   92 

Low,  Peter,  son  of  Mathew,  m.  Catherine  DuBois 307,  468 

Low,  Peter,  son  of  Peter  Cornelius 468 

Low,  Peter  Cornelius,  from  Holstein,  m.  Elizabeth  Blanshan 468 

Low,  Petrus  94 

Low,  Petrus,  Surveyor  of  Highways 300 

Low,  Samuel,  son  of  Simeon 469 

Low,  Sarah,  da.  of  Simeon,  wife  of  Petrus  Van  Wagenen 479 

Low,  Simeon,  son  of  Johannes  M.,  m.  Christina  McMullen 469 

Low,  Solomon   94 

son  of  Peter,  son  of  Mathew 468 

Low,  Trintje,  wife  of,  I,  Philip  Bevier;   2,  Adriance  Newkirk.  ..243,  244 

Ludlum,  Judge  G.  W..  m.  Catharine  Hasbrouck 384 

Lyon,  Halsey,  m.  Catharine  Ann  Hasbrouck 389 

Lyon,  Louise,  wife  of  Benjamin  C.  Hasbrook 389 

Mackey,  Alexander 96 

Markle,  Cornelia,  wife  of  Lucas  Van  Wagenen 480 

Masten,  Ezekiel.  m.  Janet  Ronk 501 

Mattysc.  Jan    13 


INDEX  583 


PAGE 


Maty,  Johannes,  Jun io6 

McArthur,  Lieut.  Alexander  331 

taken  prisoner  at  Fort  Montgomery 332 

McClaughry,  Ensign  John 331 

taken  prisoner  at  Fort  Montgomery 332 

McDonald,  William,  of  Wawarsing,  m.  Mary  DuBois 311 

McDonald, ,  da.  of  William,  wife  of  John  Hasbrouck.  ...  375 

McKinney,  Arthur   123 

McKinstry,  David,  m.  Abagail  Bevier 240 

McKinstry,  Mrs.  F.  S 421 

McMullen,  Christina,  wife  of  Simeon  Low 469 

Meckel,  Hagar  38 

Memorial  House  at  New  Paltz SO,  311 

See  New  Paltz. 

Meyer,  Rev.  John  H 156 

Meynema,  Rev.  D.  B 145 

Miller,  Mrs.  Peter,  da.  of  Edward  Wait 393 

Mitchell.  Ambrose,  m.  Maria  Bevier 247 

Mitchell,  James,  m.  a  da.  of  Lucas  Van  Wagenen 480 

Moncrief,  Major  Thomas,  Royal  Army,  exchanged  for  Major 

Zach.  DuBois   334,  335 

Monion,  Richard   g6 

Montanye,  Catharine,  wife  of  Jean  Bevier 226,  233,  234 

Montgomery,  General  325 

Morris,  Arthur,  m.  Elizabeth  Bevier 236 

Morton,  Levi  P 482 

Mott,  Lieut.  Ebenezer 331 

taken  prisoner  at  Fort  Montgomery _  .  332 

Moulinars,  Rev.  J.J 143 

Muller,  Simon,  m.  Lena  Bevier 240 

Myer,  Rev.  Herman,  m.  Rachel  Hardenbergh 461 

Myer,  W.  D 282 

Nap,  Moses   96 

Nees,  John  265 

Newburgh,  Washington's  headquarters  at i 

Newkirk,  Adriance,  m.  Trintje  Low,  widow  of  Philip  Bevier.  . .  243 

Newkirk,  Gerrit,  m.  Maria  Bevier 248 

Newkirk,  Mathew,  m.  Cornelia  Bevier 236 

Newman,  Delia,  wife  of  Isaac  Hasbrouck 389 

New  Paltz,  Indian  deed  for 12 

New  Paltz  Patent n 

New  Paltz  Patent,  boundaries  of 6;^,  316 

New  Paltz,  Memorial  House  at 28,  99,  362,  402,  421,  465 

New  Paltz,  names  of  Patentees  of 15;  5io 

New  Paltz,  coat  of  arms  of,  people 119 

New  Paltz,  Patentees  of,  want  more  land 21 

New  Paltz,  Patentees  of,  houses  of 29,  30 

New  Paltz,  Dutch  families  in 467 

New  Paltz  people  and  Indians 78 

New  Paltz  Huguenot  Memorial  Society 307,  397,  402 

New  Paltz,  ferry  at.  across  the  Wallkill 127 

built  by  subscription   127 

lists  of  subscribers  128 

New  Paltz,  division  of  the  Patent  of no 


584  INDEX 

PAGE 

New  Paltz,  territor}^  annexed  to  Precinct  of 107 

New  Paltz,  agreement  for  the  defense  of  title 103 

New  Paltz,  mills  in  and  about 115,  116 

New  Paltz,  the  Dusine  of T     69 

New  Paltz,  ordinances 66 

New  Paltz,  election  of  officers 299-300 

New  Paltz,  men  of,  as  county  and  provincial  officers 160 

New  Paltz,  matters  submitted  to  vote  in 112 

New  Paltz,  papers  relating  to,  in  County  Clerk's  Office 160 

New  Paltz,  taxes  in 89.  92,  94,  108 

New  Paltz,  training  of  militia 131 

New  Paltz  in  the  Revolution 122,  167.  171.  178-190 

list  of  inhabitants  of,  in  1765 94 

in   1775    168 

farms  and  farming  in   190-198 

towns   in.   precinct   of 199-215 

New  Paltz  Church,  called  the  Walloon;    the  first  built  of  logs.  ..  .      134 

first  stone  church  9,  139 

second  stone  church   152 

a  brick  church  158 

New  Paltz.  church  at,  French  records  of 2)7 

See  Church. 

New  Paltz.  church  of.  faithful  to  the  Coetus 148 

New  Paltz.  ministers  of  the  church  at 136-159 

New  Paltz.  schoolmasters  in 216 

Nicholson.  Col.  John 327 

Nick-el.  Agatha,  wife  of  Pierre  Deyo 10,  253 

Northrop.  Willet  S..  m.  Magdalen  DuBois  Bevier 251 

Nottingham,  Stephen,  Capt.  1758 119 

Nottingham,  Susan,  wife  of  Cornelius  Bevier 238 

Nottingham,  W 294.  414.  481 

Noyes.  Oscar,  m.  Mary  Dej^o 269 

Occum.  Rev.  Samson 345 

Oliver,  Matliew.  m.  Jane  Elting 497 

Ostrander,  Jacob,  m.  Maria  DuBois 321 

Ostrander,  Johannes   501 

Ostrander,  Lana,  wife  of  David  Relj^ea  3d 503 

Ostrander,  Peter,  m.  Christina  Ronk 501 

Ostrander,  Peter,  m.  Debora  Deyo 275.  516 

Ostrander.  Thomas,  m.  Maria  Hasbrouck 387 

Parmiter.  Michael 96 

Parkus,  Ebenezer  96 

Parkus.  Valentine   96 

Pawling,  Capt.  Albert  328 

Pawling,  Lieut.  Henry  331 

taken  prisoner  at  Fort  Montgfimery 332 

Peartree,  Col.  William   470 

Pendleton.  Lieut.  Samuel  Solomon 331 

taken  prisoner  at  Fort  Montgomery 7,2,2 

Perrine,  Ann.  wife  of  Abraham  A.  Bevier 238 

Perrj',  Capt.  Eli.  m.  Margaret  Hasbrouck 389 

Peters,  Dr.  William,  m.  ATargaret  Hasbrouck 404 


INDEX  585 

PAGE 

Petilon,  Mary  xj 

wife  of  Abraham  Rutan 38 

Philippse,  Adolph   470 

Piercy,  Lieut.  Jonathan 328 

resigns    329 

Pierson.  Dr.  William,  m.  Jane  DuBois  311 

Piatt,  Richard   327 

Captain  328 

resigns    ;j29 

Plum,  Dr.,  m.  Anna  Ronk 501 

Pontinear,  Henry ' 265 

Pontinear  Lewis 96 

Post,  Arien   482 

Poyer,  ,  wife  of  Simon  DuBois 301 

Pratt,  Alden  J.,  m.  Caroline  Deyo,  widow  of  Dewitt  Ransom..  .  277 

Pratt,  Frances  E.,  wife  of  Luther  Deyo 277 

Pratt,  George  W 277 

Preevost,  John  361 

Presslar,  Johannis  96 

Public  highway,  the  first  from  New  Paltz 62 

Putnam,  General,  letters  from 335 

Ransom,  Dewitt,  m.  Caroline  Deyo 277 

Ransom,  Miss,  schoolteacher,  m.  Henry  G.  DuBois 218 

Ransom,  Nancy,  wife  of  John  LeFevre 428 

Ransom,  Phelick  96 

Ransom,  Smith,  m.  Alarj^  LeFevre 422 

Ray,  Eliza,  wife  of  Joseph  O.  Hasbrouck 387 

Reese,  Christopher,  m.  Maria  Hasbrouck. 401 

Reeve,  Dr.  Isaac,  m.  Elizabeth  DuBois 311 

Reille   (Relyea),  Dennis   41 

Relyea  (  Relje),  Benjamin,  m.  Melissa  DuBois 301 

Relyea  (Relje),  Claudina,  da.  of  Dennis 503 

Relyea,  David,  son  of  Dennis 503 

Relyea,  David,  2d,  son  of  Dennis  2 503 

Relyea,  David,  3d,  m.  Lana  Ostrander 503 

Relyea,  Dennis,  soldier  in  Revolution 503 

Relyea,  Dennis,  m.  Joanna  LeRoy 502 

Relyea,  Dennis,  2d,  m.  Marytje  Van  Vleit 503 

Relyea,  Hester,  da.  of  Dennis 503 

Relyea,  John,  soldier  in  Revolution - "503 

Relyea,  Peter,  soldier  in  Revolution 503 

Relyea,  Simeon,  soldier  in  Revolution 503 

Rice,  Gilbert  C,  schoolmaster 218 

Rich,  Peter,  m.  Margaret  Ronk 501 

Roe,  Mary  E.,  wife  of  William  C.  Hasbrouck 389 

Roe.  William   3^9 

Rohrer,  DuBois,  son  of  Reuben  H 346 

Rohrer,  Leland,  son  of  Reuben  H 346 

Rohrer,  Mifflin,  son  of  Reuben  H 346 

Rohrer.   Reuben   H.,   of  Lancaster,    Pa.,   m.    Clemcniine   Williams 

DuBois    346 

Rohrer,  Reuben  S.,  son  of  Reuben  H 34^ 

Romp,  Sergt 6 

Ronk,  de  Ranke 


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Ronk,  A.  M.,  son  of  John  George,  son  of  Laurents 502 

Ronk,  Mrs.  A.  M.,  granddaughter  of  Joseph  I.  Hasbrouck 386 

Ronk,  Anna,  da.  of  John  George,  wife  of  Dr.  Plum 501 

Ronk,  Christina,  da.  of  John  George,  wife  of  Peter  Ostrander 501 

Ronk,   Cornehus,  son  of  John  George,  private  4th  Ulster  County 

Regiment    501 

Ronk,  Janet,  da.  of  John  George,  wife  of  Ezekiel  Hasten 501 

Ronk,  John,  son  of  John  George,  ni. Sinsabagh ;    soldier  in 

Revolution  501 

De  Ronk,  John  George 266 

m.  Clara  Battie  500 

Ronk,  John  George,  son  of  Laurents 501 

Ronk,  Laurents,  son  of  John  George 501 

Ronk,  Margaret,  da.  of  John  George,  wife  of  Peter  Rich 501 

Ronk,  Philip,  son  of  John  George,  soldier  in  Revolution 501 

Ronk,  Stephen,  m.  Eliza  Hasbrouck 389 

Roos,  Hyman   282 

Roos,  Jan  282 

Roos,  Nathaniel,  m.  Maria  Jane  Hasbrouck 389 

Roosa,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Conrad  Bevier 237 

Roosa,  Engeltje,  wife  of  Cornelius  B.  Schoonmaker 499 

Roosa,  Geesj  e,  wife  of  Jan  Ean 476 

Roosa,  Lyman  Albertson 19,  4i  i 

Roosa,  Leah,  wife  of  Benjamin  Bevier 238,  242 

Roosa,  Marytje,  da.  of  Nicholas,  1st  wife  of  Abraham  Hardenbergh     456 

Roosa,  Nicholas 9- 

Rosa,  Abraham,  Overseer  of  the  Poor,  New  Paltz 300 

Rose,  Daniel   370,  372 

Rose,  Jacob,  m.  Catharine  Hasbrouck 37^ 

Rose,  Jacobus,  m.  Mary  DuBois 300 

Rose,  Lieut.  Jacobus,  a  Tory 122 

Rose,  Peter,  m. Hasbrouck 372 

Rosecrans,  Capt.  Jacobus  or  James 330,  342 

Rutan,  Rutemps,  Abraham  37.  38 

Rutan,  David,  son  of  Abraham 38-39 

Rutan,  Esther,  da.  of  Abm 39 

dies   40 

Rutan,  Paul,  son  of  Abm 38 

Rutan,  Peter,  son  of  Abm 40 

Rutsen,  Jacob 282,  504 

Rutsen,  Col.  Jacob 92 

Rutzen,  Catharine,  da.  of  Jacob,  wife  of  Johannes  Hardenbergh 456 

Rutzen,  John,  Capt.  of  troop  in  1715 117 

Savage,  Capt. 337 

Sawtell.  Luther,  m.  Catharine  Bevier 247 

Sax,  Michael,  m.  Johanna  Bevier 227 

Saxton, .  wife  of  Livingston  Deyo 278 

Scharp,  Catharine,  wife  of  Philip  Freer 364 

Schenck,  Elsie,  wife  of  Dr.  Stephen  Hasbrouck 387 

Schepmoes,  Dirck 14.  284 

Schepmoes,  Jeapie.  wife  of  Gerrit  Jans  Hardenbergh 455 

Schepmoes,  Capt.  Johannes  117 

Schoolmasters,  French,  at  New  Paltz 25 

Schoonmaker,  Abram,  son  of  Abram 500 

Schoonmaker,  Abraham,  son  of  Cornelius 500 


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Schoonmaker,  Abraham,  son  of  Isaac,  m.  Rachel  Deyo 500 

Schoonmaker,  Adjutant  Abraham  327 

Schoonmaker,  Abm.  P.,  m.  a  da.  of  Jonas  Freer  2d 363 

Schoonmaker,  Arriantje,  ist  wife  of  Jacob  I.  Schoonmaker "500 

Schoonmaker,  Cornelia,  wife  of  Joseph  I.  Hasbrouck 386 

Schoonmaker,  Cornelius,  son  of  Abram 500 

Schoonmaker,  Cornelius  B.,  son  of  Jochem  Hendrick,  m.  Engeltje 

Roosa   499 

Schoonmaker,  Cornelius  C,  son  of  Cornelius 500 

Schoonmaker,  Cornelius,  son  of  Cornelius  B.,  m.  Arriantje  Horn- 
beck   499 

Schoonmaker,  David,  son  of  Abram 500 

Schoonmaker,  Elidia,  wife  of  Benjamin  Hasbrouck 381,  389 

Schoonmaker,  Elsje,  wife  of  Joseph  Hasbrouck 369,  375,  380 

Schoonmaker,  Elihu,  son  of  Jacob  1 500 

Schoonmaker,  Mrs.  Elihu,  da.  of  Samuel  Hasbrouck 2,'jt, 

Schoonmaker,  Evert 279 

Schoonmaker,  George,  son  of  Abram 500 

Schoonmaker,  Harriet,  da.  of  Isaac,  wife  of Goetcheous.  . .  .  500 

Schoonmaker,  Hendrick  Jochenson,  m.  Elsie  Van  Breestede 499 

Lieutenant  W.  I.  Co 499 

Schoonmaker,  Sergt.  Henry,  "missing"  at  Fort  Montgomery t,T)2 

Schoonmaker,  Isaac,  son  of  Cornelius,  m.  Sarah  DuBois 500 

Schoonmaker,   Jacob    I.,    son   of    Isaac,    m.    i,    Arriantje    Schoon- 
maker ;   2,  Ann  Baird 500 

Schoonmaker,  Jochem  Hendrick,  son  of  Hendrick  Jochenson,  m. 

I,  Petronella  Sleght ;   2,  Ann  Hussey 499 

Schoonmaker,  John  A.,  son  of  Abram 500 

Schoonmaker,  Lucas  E 403 

Schoonmaker,  Margaret,  wife  of  Daniel  Hasbrouck 371 

Schoonmaker,  Mathusalem,  son  of  Isaac 500 

Schoonmaker,  Petrus   95 

Schoonmaker,  Philip,  m.  a  da.  of  Jonas  Freer  2d 363 

Schoonmaker,  Policy,  da.  of  Isaac,  wife  of  Tjerck  De  Witt 500 

Schoonmaker,  Samuel   9.S 

Schoonmaker,  Selah.  son  of  Abram 500 

Schuneman,  Rev.  Johannes •  I45 

Sergeant,  Robert   90 

Sergeant,  William 265 

Seven  Sisters,  the 4^7 

Sharpe.  Gen.  George  H.,  son  of  Henry 384 

Sharpe,  Henry,  m.  Helena  Hasbrouck 384 

Shaver,  Martha  J.,  wife  of  Andrew  Bevier 241 

Shultz,  Charles,  m.  Elizabeth  Bevier,  widow  of  Moses  Bevier 242 

Sinsabagh, ,  wife  of  John  Ronk 501 

Slaves,  owners  of  299,  370.  457,  47o 

list  of  93 

(Slecht,  Sleght.  Sleight.) 

Slecht,  Antho 106 

Slecht,  Cornelius  481 

m.  Tryntie  Tynebrouck  482 

Sleight,  Hend 106 

Sleight,  Ensign  Jacobus 33i 

Sleght,  Jacomeyntje  ^3 

Slecht,  Jacomyntje,  da.  of  Cornelius,  wife  of  Jan  Elten 482 


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PAGE 

Sleclit,  Jan  io6 

Slcclit,  Mattys   92,  282,  353 

Slecht,  Mattys,  Jun •'  •  •  75!  474 

Sleglit,  Mattys  C,  m.  Maria  Maddaletn  Crispell 474 

Sleght,  Pctronella,  ist  wife  of  Jochem  Schoonmaker 499 

Sleight,  Rachel,  wife  of  Abraham  Hasbrouck,  Jun ^72 

Slouter,  Wouter,  a  Tory 122 

Sluyter,  Benjamin 265 

Smeclcs,  Catharine,  wife  of  Charles  Hardenbergh 460 

Smedes,  Catharine  Ann,  2d  wife  of  Hiram  Budd 453 

Smedes,  Catrina,  wife  of  Benjamin  I.  Hasbrouck 404 

Smedes,  Peter,  m.  Elsie  Hasbrouck 370 

Smeedcs,  Gertrude,  wife  of  Lewis  Bevier 243 

Smith,  Elizabeth,  ist  wife  of  Jacobus  Auchmpody 452 

Smith,  Hannah,  ist  wife  of  John  Bevier 246 

Smith,  Hendrick   503 

Smith,  Elenry,  son  of  William  2d 504 

Smith,  Capt.  Israel,  m.  Mary  Hasbrouck 392 

Smith,  Ruth,  wife  of  Deyo. 269 

Smith,  William,  ist 503 

soldier  in  Revolution 504 

Smith,  William,  2d 503 

Smith,  William,  3d,  son  of  Henry 504 

Smith,  Wyntje,  wife  of  Jeremiah  Bevier 248 

Snyder,  Capt.  Jacob  L.,  m.  a  da.  of  Calvin  Hasbrouck 387-8 

Snyder,  John  A.,  m.  Jenneke  Bevier 242 

Soldiers  in  Colonial  times 117 

in  War  of  Independence.  .172-177,  265,  312,  321,  322,  325,  350,  359,  430 

in  War  of  1812 350 

Sprague,  G.  I..  Provincial  Secretary 379 

Sprague.  Josiah  271 

Spratt,  Johannes  265 

Steen,  Mathew  404 

Steward,  Asa,  m.  Mary  DuBois 344 

Steward,  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Asa 344 

Steward,  Margaret,  da.  of  Asa  344 

Stewart,  Capt.  James 330,  342 

Stewart,  Capt, ,  9th  Regiment  Royal  Army 338 

Stilwell,   Samuel  B 49,  62,  316 

Stilwell,  Stephen,  m.  Catharine  Bevier 250 

Stokhard.  Catharine,  wife  of  Jonas  Freer 358,  361 

Stokhard,  Clarissa,  wife  of  Moses  Deyo 259,  516 

Stover,  George  95 

Sullivan's  Expedition  342 

Suylant,  Catharine,  wife  of  Benjamin  DuBois 307 

Swart,  Eglie,  widow  of  Capt.  Simon  LeFevre,  wife  of  John  Le- 

Fevre  419 

Swartout,  Ensign  Henry 331 

taken  prisoner  at  Fort  Montgomery 332 

Tappen,  Jregan  .- 315 

Taylor,  Daniel,  a  British  spy,  arrested 336 

court  martial  to  try 337 

condemned   338 

hung   339 


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PAGE 

Taylor,  E.  J 261 

Tears,  Jacob  ^oi 

Teachout,  Elizabetli,  wife  of  Johannes  Bevier 240 

Tebenin,  Jean,  the  schoolmaster 25,  60,  143 

Temple,  Mrs.  Henry  A .'.  .  '  230 

Ten  Broeck,  Johannes,  Capt.  Ulster  County  Co.,  1738 118 

Ten  Broeck,  Wessel 14^  282 

Captain  in  171 1   117I  422 

Ten  Eyck,  Catharine,  da.  of  Richard,  wife  of  Benjamin  Rosa  Be- 
vier      240 

Ter  Boss,  Hendrick,  m.  Rachel  Freer 353 

Terpenning,  John 75,  89,  91,  92,  106 


m.  Esther  Freer 


353 


Terwilliger,  Aurt  265 

Terwilliger,  Elidia,  wife  of  Deyo 260 

Terwilliger,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Peter  Bevier 241 

Terwilliger,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Benjamin  Freer 359 

Terwilliger,  Terwellego,  Evert,  Assessor  of  New  Paltz 300 

Terwilliger,  Evert,  m.  Sarah  Freer 353 

Terwilliger,  Evert,  Jun 3ig 

Terwilliger,  John g4 

Terwilliger,  John,  Jun 265 

Terwilliger,  Jonathan   95,  loi 

Terwilliger,  Joseph  95,  loi 

Terwilliger,  Josiah,  Jun 265 

Tennisson,  Arent 284 

Thomas,  Patty,  wife  of  Elijah  Deyo 278 

Thorn,  Charlotte,  wife  of  Jacob  Hasbrouck 389 

Thorn,  Jane,  wife  of  Lewis  DuBois  sth 345 

Titesorte,  Haignies  (  PAgnes)  and  Abram  Frere  married 41,  363 

Titesorte,  Elizabeth 41 

Titus,  John,  m.  Sarah  Hasbrouck 389 

Tooker,  Ellen,  wife  of  Harvey  Deyo 278 

Townsend,  Nathan  301 

Townsend,  Samuel,  Paymaster  330 

Traphagan,  Rachel  Ann,  wife  of  John  Hasbrouck 389 

Tschirkey,  Oscar  278,  493 

Turtle,  James  96 

Tuthill,  Daniel,  m.  Sarah  B.  Hasbrouck 386-7 

Twelve  men,  the,  see  the  Dusine. 

Van  Aken,  Annitje,  wife  of  Jacob  Freer 365 

Van  Aken,  Marynus 95 

m.  Margaret  Deyo  516 

Van  Benschoten,  Lieut.  Elias 325 

Captain 328 

Van  Benthuysen,  Catrina,  wife  of  Antoine  Crispell 524 

Van  Bergh,  Dinah,  widow  of  Rev.  John  Frelinghnysen,  wife  of 

Jacob  Rutze  Hardenbergh  460 

Van  Bome,  Peter,  Johanna  Louis,  widow  of,  m.  Abraham  Freer, 

Jun 364 

Van  Breestede,  Elsie,  da.  of  Jan  Jansen,  ist  wife  of  Hendrick  Jo- 

chensen  Schoonmaker 499 

Van  Bumble,  Helen,  wife  of  Ezekiel  Bevier 248 

Van  Bummel,  Margaret,  wife  of  Hendricus  Deyo 273,  515 


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Van  Buren,  President  Martin 130 

Van  Cortlandt.  Philip,  Col.  2d  N.  Y 343 

Van  Dam,  Rip  470 

Vandemark,  Abraham   95,  100 

Vandemark,  August  . 92 

Vandemark,  Petrus   96 

Vanderbilt,  Abagail,  2d  wife  of  Abraham  Bevier 237 

Van  der  Burgh,  Van  den  Burgh,  Van  de  Bergh 

Van  der  Burgh,  Barthal,  Ensign 342 

Van  den  Burg,  Lieut.  Henry 328,  331 

Van  der  Burgh,  Henry,  Ensign 342 

Van  den  Burgh,  Ensign  Henry  J 331 

Van  der  Burgh,  Henry  W.,  Lieut 342 

Van  der  Merkan,  Abraham 106 

Van  Driessen,  Rev.  Johannes 141 

Van  Dyck,  Catharine,  da.  of  Lawrence  C.  Van  Dyck,  wife  of  Louis 

Bevier   251-2 

Van  Dyck,  CorneHus  L.,  m.  Maria  Bevier 251 

Van  Dyck,  Peter,  m.  EHzabeth  Bevier 252 

Van  Gasbeck,  John,  widow  of.  m.  Isaac  Hasbrouck 381 

Van  Harring,  Jannetje,  wife  of  Mathew  Low 468 

Van  Keuren,  EHzabeth,  da.  of  Tjerck  Matthysen,  wife  of  Benjamin 

Bevier   236,  238 

Van  Keuren,  Garret je,  wife  of  Lewis  Bevier 238 

Van  Keuren,  Mathys 106 

Van  Kleeck,  Michael,  m.  Dinah  Freer 353 

Van  Kleeck,  — ,  wife  of  Lucas  Deyo 276 

Van  Kuykendale,  Maryanette,  wife  of  William  Freer 363 

Van  Leuven,  Peter  230 

Van  Metten.  Rebecca,  wife  of  Cornelius  Elting 482 

Van  Niest,  Rev.  Regnier  385 

Van  Olinda,  Rev.  Douw 158 

Van  Orden,  Abraham,  m.  Maria  LeFevre 431 

Van  Orden,  C.  L 321 

Van  Orden.  Solomon 430 

Van  Schaick,  ,  Col.  i  st  N.  Y 343 

Van  Vleck,  Margaret,  wife  of  Louis  L  Hasbrouck 404 

Van  Vleit,  Elizabeth  Gonzalez,  2d  wife  of  Johannes  Bevier 235 

Van  Vleit,  Marytje,  wife  of  Dennis  Relyea  2d 503 

Van  Vliet,  Debora,  wife  of  Christofifel  Deyo 275,  516 

Van  Vliet,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Gerritt  Freer 365 

Van  Vliet,  Gertje,  wife  of  Gerrit  Freer,  son  of  Jacob 365 

Van  Vliet,  Jenneke,  wife  of  Benjamin  Deyo 516 

Van  Vliet,  Tunis  123 

Van  Volgen,  Teimis  Clausen,  of  Schenectady,  m.  Sarah  Freer. .  .352,  527 

Van  Wagen,  Aritje,  wife  of  Jacob  Freer 364 

See  Van  Weyen. 

Van  Wagenen,  Aart 358 

Van  Wagenen,  Abraham 95 

Van  Wagenen,  Aert   (Archa)   P.,  son  of  Petrus,  m.  Maria  Freer. 

da.  of  Jonas  363,  480 

soldier   in    1812 480 

Van  Wagenen,  Alexander,  son  of  Archa  P 480 

Van  Wagenen,  Archa,  of  Wagondahl , 479 

Van  Wagenen,  Benjamin,  m.  Catherine,  da.  of  Jonathan  DuBois..32i,  480 


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PAGE 

Van  Wagenen,  Catharine,  wife  of  Abraham  Ean 477 

Van  Wagenen,  Catharine,  da.  of  Petrus 480 

Van  Wagenen,  Daniel,  son  of  Petrus,  soldier  in  Revolution 480 

Van  Wagenen,  Ezekiel.  son  of  Petrus 480 

Van  Wagenen,  Lieut.  Garret 328 

resigns    329 

Van  Wagenen,  George 315 

Van  Wagenen,  Hannah,  wife  of  Dr.  Cornelius  D.  Hasbrouck 403 

Van  Wagenen,  Isaac,  m.  Sarah  Deyo 517 

Van  Wagenen,  Janetje,  da.  of  Lucas 480 

Van  Wagenen,  Jonas,  son  of  Archa  P 480 

Van  Wagenen,  Jonathan  265 

Van  Wagenen,  Jonathan,  son  of  Lucas 480 

Van  Wagenen,  Jonathan,  son  of  Petrus 480 

Van  Wagenen,  Levi,  son  of  Petrus,  soldier  in  Revolution 480 

Van  Wagenen,  Lucas,  son  of  Petrus,  m.  Cornelia  Markle 480 

Van  Wagenen,  Magdalen,  da.  of  Archa  P.,  wife  of  Jacob  Bedford..     480 

Van  Wagenen,  Maria,  da.  of  Lucas 480 

Van  Wagenen,  Maria,  da.  of  Petrus 480 

Van  Wagenen,  Maria,  wife  of  Samuel  Bevier 241 

Van  Wagenen,  Maritje,  wife  of  Cornelius  LeFevre 438 

Van  Wagenen,  Petrus 95,  loi 

Van  Wagenen,   Petrus,  son  of  Archa,  m.   Sarah  Low ;    soldier  in 

Revolution  479 

Van  Wagenen,  Rebecca,  wife  of  Henry  (Hendricus)  DuBois 313 

Van  Wagenen,  Rebecca,  wife  of  Jean  Freer 365.  527 

Van  Wagenen,  Sarah,  da.  of  Petrus 480 

Van  Wagenen,  Sarah,  wife  of  Johannes  Deyo 275 

Van  Wagenen,  Sarah,  wife  of  Solomon  Hasbrouck 369 

Van  Wagenen,  Simon,  m.  Sarah  DuBois 307 

Van  Wagonen,  Isaac,  m.  Catharine  Freer 353 

Van  Wagoner,  George 483 

Van  Wegener  family,  descent  of 482 

Van  Weye,  Hendrick 89,  91 

Van  Weyen  (Wagen),  Aritje,  wife  of  Jacob  Freer 527 

Van  Winkle,  Cornelius,  m.  Maria  Elting 497 

Vas,  Rev.  Peter 415 

Vernooy,  Anna,  wife  of  Jacob  Bevier 235,  236 

Vernoy,  Conrad,  m.  Mary  LeFevre 417 

Vernoy,  Cornelia.  2d  wife  of  Johannes  Bevier 237 

Vernooy,  Cornelius,  m.  Cornelia  DuBois 318 

Vernooy,  Cornelius  G.,  m.  Maria  Bevier 236 

Vernooy,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Petrus  LeFevre 435,  447 

Vernooy,  Hendrick  470 

Vernooy,  Jennike,  wife  of  Abraham  J.  Bevier 238,  242 

Vernooy,  Margaret,  wife  of  Moses  LeFevre 420 

Vernooy,  Rachel,  wife  of  Abraham  Bevier 226,  233,  235 

Vernooy,  Sarah,  wife  of  Conrad  Bevier 240 

Vernooy,  Sarah,  wife  of  Johannes  LeFevre .435,  447 

Vernooy,  widow  Sarah,  3d  wife  of  Abraham  Bevier 237 

Vernooy,  ,  m.  Margaret  LeFevre 430 

Vernooy, .  Capt 117 

Viele,  Lewis,  of  Schenectady,  m.  Mary  Freer 352,  527 

Vilar,  Jane   39 

Viltfil,  Daniel,  son  of  Richard 42 


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Viltfil,  Richard,  and  wife  Madaliiie  Chut 42 

Viltfil, ,  child  of  Richard  and  wife  Madehn  Chut,  baptized.  .  41 

Vrooman,  Rev.  B 142 

Wait,  Edward,  m.  Betsey  Hasbrouck 392 

Waldron,  Catharine,  wife  of  Lewis  Hardenbergh 460 

Wall,  Thomas,  of  Somerset  Co.,  N.  J.,  m.  Grietje  Elting 482 

Walters,  Nathaniel 265 

Wamboon,  Mariten,  wife  of  Simon  Freer 359 

Ward,  John   14,  284 

Waring,  Rachel,  wife  of  Zacharias  Hasbrouck ^yz 

Wasemiller,  Hendrick   96 

Watkins,  Elidia,  m.  Clorine  Deyo 277 

Watson,  Capt.  2i2>7 

Weaver,  Ensign  Edward  33 1 

Weed,  Barton,  m.  Emeretta  Deyo 278 

Wells,  Philipp,  Surveyor  Gen 376 

Westbrook,  Anthony 92 

Westbrook,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Isaiah  Hasbrouck 2>7- 

Westbrook,  Jacob   428 

Westbrook,  Solomon,  m.  Esther  Bevier 234 

Westvall,  Claritje,  wife  of  Solomon  Freer 363,  528 

Wheeler,  James  96 

Wherry,  Lieut.  Evans 328 

Wiban,  Jannitje,  2d  wife  of  Hugo  Freer  the  Patentee 351 

Winfield,  Annanius,  m.  Jane  Newkirk  Bevier 249 

Winfield,  Catharine,  wife  of  Josiah  DuBois 311 

Winfield,  Ruth,  wife  of  Abel  Hasbrouck 387 

Winfield,  Silas,  m.  Neeltje  Bevier 249 

Winslow,  John,  Dept.  Commissioner  of  Prisoners,  N.  Y 334 

Wirtz  (Wurts),  Catharine,  da.  of  Dr.  George 465 

Wirtz  (Wurts),  Cornelius,  son  of  Dr.  Jacob 466 

Wurts,  Cornelius,  m.  Margaret  LeFevre 428 

Wirtz,  David,  son  of  Dr.  Jacob 466 

Wirtz,  George,  M.  D.,  first  physician  at  New  Paltz,  m.  Esther  Has- 
brouck     401,  464,  465 

Wirtz  (Wurts),  George  son  of  Dr.  Jacob 466 

m.  Cornelia  LeFevre 427 

Wirtz  (Wurts),  Gertrude,  da.  of  Dr.  Jacob 466 

Wirtz,  Gitty  Jane,  da.  of  Dr.  Jacob 466 

Wurts,  Jacob  435 

Wirtz.  Dr.  Jacob,  son  of  Dr.  George,  m.  i,  Catharine  DuBois 465 

2,  Mary  Hornbeck 466 

Wurts,  Jane,  wife  of  John  Elting 492 

Wirtz  (Wurts),  Janetje,  da.  of  Dr.  George 465 

Wirtz,  Jansen.  son  of  Dr.  Maurice 466 

Wurts,  John  H 426,  428 

son  of  Dr.  Maurice  466 

Wirtz,  Mathusalem,  son  of  Dr.  Jacob 466 

m.  DuBois  304 

Wirtz,  Maurice,  son  of  Dr.  Jacob 466 

Wurts,  Dr.  Maurice  (Mauritius)    420 

son  of  Dr.  George 465 

m.  Maria  Jansen 466 

Wirtz, ,  da.  of  Dr.  Maurice,  wife  of  Gilbert  Elting 466 


INDEX      -  593 

PAGE 

Wirtz, .  da.  of  Dr.  Maurice,  wife  of  Nathaniel  Elting 466 

Wolverson,   Cornelius    4ii 

Wood.  Capt. • 337 

Woodhull,  Col.  Jesse,  m.  Hester  DuBois 322 

Woodworth,  John,  Judge  Advocate 33o 

Wool,  Capt.  Isaac  32S 

Woolsey,  Daniel  278 

Woolsey,  John  9o 

Woolsey,  Phebe,  wife  of  Hendricus  Deyo  3d 270 

Wolsey,  Thomas  90 

Wurts  (see  Wirtz.)  - 

Wyard,  Nathaniel  . 9o 

Wygant,  Asa,  son  of  John  W 344 

Wygant,  Cornelius,  son  of  John  W 344 

Wygant.  Elizabeth,  da.  of  John  W 344 

Wygant,  J.  Ward,  son  of  John  W 344 

Wygant.  John  W.,  m.  Ehzabeth  DuBois 344 

Wygant.  Mary  Jane,  da.  of  John  W 344 

Wygant,  Ostrom,  son  of  John  W 344 

.  Rebecca,  wife  of  John  DuBois 344 

Wygant,  William  D.,  son  of  John  W 344 

Wyllis.  Capt. ^^"^ 

Wynkoop,  C,  m.  Maria  LeFevre •  •  •  •, 4-i 

Wynkoop,  Cornelia,  da.  of  Dirck,  wife  of  Peter  Eltmg 43° 

Wynkoop,  Cornelius  U'V,". "^t^ 

Wynkoop,  Cornelius,  of  Hurley,  m.  Leah  DuBois •  •  310 

Wynkoop,  Dirck,  m.  Sarah  Elting ......... .4«5.  4«d 

Wynkoop,  Gertrude,  da.  of  Dirck,  wife  of  Alexander  Colden,  later 

of  David  Colden  4»t) 

Yandel,  Mary,  wife  of  Jacobus  Bevier 247 

Yarnton,  Anthony  ^ 

Yelverton,  Anthony  2^ 

York,  John  f^ 

m.  Janeti  e  Bevier •  ^47 

York,  Maria,  wife  of  Jacob  Bevier  2d 240,  24/ 

York,  Maria,  wife  of  Isaac  Bevier 247 

Young.  Henrietta,  da.  of  Lewis  W 34^2 

Young,  James  Henry,  son  of  Lewis  W 345 

Young,  Juliet,  da.  of  Lewis  W •  ■  • .- 34d 

Young,  Lewis  W..  m.  Rachel  Margaret  DuBois 345